Nigeria formally hands over Bakassi to Cameroon (AFP)

ARCHIBONG, Cameroon (AFP) - Nigeria formally handed over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon in compliance with a World Court ruling and UN-brokered deadline, ending a 13-year feud between Abuja and Yaounde. Nigerian Justice Minister Bayo Ojo and his Cameroonian counterpart, Maurice Kamto, signed the documents transferring authority over Bakassi peninsula from Abuja to Yaounde at a ceremony witnessed by UN, French, British and German and US officials. Nigeria and Cameroon were respectively ...