Why Nations Fight: The Causes of the Nigeria–Cameroon Bakassi Peninsula Conflict

Okoi, Obasesam

doi:10.1080/19392206.2016.1132904

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“…These disputes are over territories that are rich in resources or are strategic locations. There are similar disputes in the Bakassi peninsula between Nigeria and Cameroon (Okoi, 2016) and in the Corisco Bay between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. There is also tension between Kenya and Somalia over the Indian Ocean's Exclusive Economic Zone, which is around 42,000 square kilometres (Okoi, 2016).…”

Section: Pan-africanmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…There are similar disputes in the Bakassi peninsula between Nigeria and Cameroon (Okoi, 2016) and in the Corisco Bay between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. There is also tension between Kenya and Somalia over the Indian Ocean's Exclusive Economic Zone, which is around 42,000 square kilometres (Okoi, 2016). Kenya's objection to the court's jurisdiction over, and the admissibility of, the case has drawn out the dispute.…”

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confidence: 88%

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Why most African states may be at war with each other in 2063

Onditi¹,

Kithiia²

2019

The Thinker

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The year 2063 is important to the AU and the African people. Aside from the fact that, by then, many African states will be celebrating 100 years’ independence, this is also the year that the goals listed in the Agenda 2063 should have been achieved. The Agenda 2063, which was created in 2015, groups its objectives into four broad categories: inclusive growth; integration; governance; security; cultural identity; women and youth; and partnership

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Section: Pan-africanmentioning

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Why most African states may be at war with each other in 2063

Onditi¹,

Kithiia²

2019

The Thinker

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“…The peninsula had abundant untapped natural gas, oil and other minerals. It is resource-rich, containing as much as 10% of the world's reserves of oil and gas (Anyu 2007: 41; Shaibu et al 2015: 36–7; Okoi 2016 b : 42–3). In addition, the peninsula is of immense strategic importance (Okoi 2016 b : 59).…”

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“…It is resource-rich, containing as much as 10% of the world's reserves of oil and gas (Anyu 2007: 41; Shaibu et al 2015: 36–7; Okoi 2016 b : 42–3). In addition, the peninsula is of immense strategic importance (Okoi 2016 b : 59). It is not only at the confluence where ‘two great ocean currents meet, making conditions very favorable for a large variety of fish and other forms of maritime wildlife’, but also a gateway to the ‘economic survival’ of the port of Calabar (Shaibu et al 2015: 37).…”

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confidence: 99%

Cameroon's relations toward Nigeria: a foreign policy of pragmatism

Amin

2020

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Existing literature argues that the tactics of Cameroon foreign policy have been conservative, weak and timid. This study refutes that perspective. Based on extensive and previously unused primary sources obtained from Cameroon's Ministry of External Relations and from the nation's archives in Buea and Yaoundé, this study argues that Cameroon's foreign policy was neither timid nor makeshift. Its strategy was one of pragmatism. By examining the nation's policy toward Nigeria in the reunification of Cameroon, the Nigerian civil war, the Bakassi Peninsula crisis and Boko Haram, the study maintains that, while the nation's policy was cautious, its leaders focused on the objectives and as a result scored major victories. The study concludes by suggesting that President Paul Biya invokes the same skills he used in foreign policy to address the ongoing Anglophone problem, a problem that threatens to unravel much of what the country has accomplished.

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“…For instance, for the first time in history, Nigeria recorded a military conflagration with Chad in 1983 when the later killed eight Nigerian soldiers over border matters. After a long time of misunderstanding and occasional skirmishes, Nigeria and Cameroon also engaged in a legal battle for more than eight years over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula (Okoi 2016). Konings (2005, 288) remarks that ‘the Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria border has been a regular source of conflict between the Cameroonian and Nigerian states since unification’.…”

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Insurgency and Nigeria’s Relations with Her Immediate Neighbors in the Twenty-first Century

Obamamoye

2016

Jadavpur Journal of International Relations

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Terrorist acts metamorphosed into an insurgency in Nigeria when the Boko Haram terrorist group ferociously challenged the territorial integrity of Nigeria and proclaimed authority over 14 local governments. Consequently, Nigeria orchestrates counterinsurgency strategy that incorporates her contiguous neighbors. It is against this background that this article interrogates the rise of insurgency in Nigeria and its influence on Nigeria’s relations with her immediate neighbors. The article argues that the insurgent uprising reinvigorates rapprochement between Nigeria and the nearby states. It concludes that cooperation in this context for national security is inexorable for mutual survival.

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Why Nations Fight: The Causes of the Nigeria–Cameroon Bakassi Peninsula Conflict

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Why most African states may be at war with each other in 2063

Why most African states may be at war with each other in 2063

Cameroon's relations toward Nigeria: a foreign policy of pragmatism

Insurgency and Nigeria’s Relations with Her Immediate Neighbors in the Twenty-first Century

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