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Bakassi Now Part of Cameroon

Friday August 15, 2008
Two years after an agreement to do so, Nigeria has ceded the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. Given past conflicts in the area, the displacement of people, and the potential revenue from offshore oil fields, it remains to be seen if things will continue to be peaceful. Read more about the transfer in news reports from This Day (Nigeria), Al Jazeera, CNN, and BBC

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