The top United Nations court will on Monday rule on a decades-long dispute between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea over three tiny islands in potentially oil-rich waters. The islands themselves are ...

In 1972 Gabon's army drove Equatorial Guinea's soldiers from Mbanié. Gabon has since set up its own military presence on the virtually uninhabited island of just 74 acres (30 hectares).

Equatorial Guinea had control of the territory until 1972, when Gabon took over the largest island, Mbanie, in a military skirmish. When oil was discovered in coastal waters, the dispute reignited.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The top United Nations court on Monday sided with Equatorial Guinea in a decadeslong dispute with Gabon over three tiny islands in potentially oil-rich waters. The two west ...

The case, brought before the International Court of Justice in 2021, centers on the Mbanie, Cocotiers and Conga islands, largely uninhabited isles just off Gabon’s Atlantic Ocean coast.

Judges at the top U.N. court have sided with the West African country of Equatorial Guinea in a fight with neighboring Gabon over the ownership of three largely uninhabited oil-rich islands From ...