Burkina Faso–Niger Frontier Dispute case

The Burkina Faso-Niger frontier dispute case (2013) is a public international law case with the International Court of Justice served by the neighbouring African states of Burkina Faso and Niger.^[1]

Facts

Both nations submitted the dispute to The Hague on 20 July 2010.

Judgment

The International Court of Justice delivered its Judgment on 16 April 2013. It held that the course of the boundary between the two countries is in the sector from the astronomic marker of Tong-Tong to the beginning of the Botou bend. It also paid regard to the Parties’ agreement on the results of the work of the Joint Technical Commission on demarcation of the Burkina Faso-Niger boundary at the sector from the heights of N’Gouma to the astronomic marker of Tong-Tong and the sector from the beginning of the Botou bend to the River Mekrou.

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