The Cameroon-Nigeria border, 2,100 km long, extends from Lake Chad to the Bakassi Peninsula. And its demarcation is almost complete after two decades of consultations. This Wednesday June 26 and Thursday June 27, 2024, Yaoundé hosts an extraordinary session of the Cameroon-Nigeria joint commission.
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To date, more than 2,000 km of border between the Cameroon and the Nigeria have already been studied and are the subject of an agreement between the two parties. This extraordinary session should provide an opportunity to take stock of the demarcation work and support for affected populations.
This Wednesday at the Hilton hotel in Yaoundé, Cameroonian ministers Michel Zoah and Nigerian ministers Abdullateef Fagbemi are leading the delegations. The session is chaired by Mozambican Leonardo Santos Simao, special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel.
The Nigeria-Cameroon Joint Commission has existed since November 2001, a mechanism created by the then UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, at the request of Presidents Paul Biya and Olusegun Obasanjo. Its role is to facilitate the peaceful implementation of the judgment of the International Court of Justice rendered on October 10, 2002 on the dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria. A dispute over the land and sea border and the Bakassi Peninsula. A peninsula which was officially returned by Nigeria in Cameroon in 2008.