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Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria; Equatorial Guinea Intervening)

On March 29, 1994, Cameroon filed an application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) requesting that it determine the question of sovereignty over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula and a parcel of land in the area of Lake Chad (principally Darak and its region), both of which were in dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria. Cameroon also asked the Court to specify the land and maritime boundary between the two states, and to order an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Nigerian troops from alleged Cameroonian territory in the disputed areas. As the basis of the Court'sjurisdiction, Cameroon relied on the declarations made by the parties under Article 36(2) of the ICJ Statute. In itsjudgment of June 11,1998, the Court rejected Nigeria's seven preliminary objections alleging that the Court lackedjurisdiction and that Cameroon's application was inadmissible, but it reserved the remaining, eighth objection—relating to the parties' maritime boundary— for consideration at the merits stage. The Court's order of June 30,1999, allowed Nigeria to introduce certain counterclaims, and its subsequent order of October 21,1999, unanimously authorized Equatorial Guinea to intervene in the case as a nonparty. On October 10, 2002, the Court ruled, by 13 votes to 3 (Judges Koroma and Rezek and Judge ad hoc Ajibola, chosen by Nigeria, dissenting), that sovereignty over the Bakassi Peninsula and the Lake Chad area lay with Cameroon. Upholding the validity of certain colonial arrangements invoked by Cameroon, the Court fixed, by clear majorities, the land boundary from Lake Chad in the north to the Bakassi Peninsula in the south. In fixing the portion of the maritime boundary between the two states over which it hadjurisdiction, the Court agreed with Nigeria that the equidistant line between them produced an equitable result. It did not, however, specify the location of the point off the coast of Equatorial Guinea at which the maritime boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria terminates (the "tripoint"). The Court ordered