Cameroon-Nigeria mixed commission completes border demarcation peacefully, says UN
By Tada Jutha
The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission (C-NMC) has completed the border demarcation exercise between the two countries peacefully.
The United Nations (UN), upon the completion of border demarcations, followed an agreement for a roadmap to the 2025 accord to resolve a border dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon.
Unveiling the completion of the demarcation exercise over the weekend in Yaoundé, Cameroon, the Chief Spokesperson to the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, disclosed: “The extraordinary session of the C-NMC reached a milestone today (Thursday) towards the peaceful completion of the border demarcation.”
She stated that the accord was reached at the sixth extraordinary meeting held on June 26–27, 2024, in Yaounde, Cameroon.
Besides the completion of border demarcations, Dujarric said that the Commission was first established in 2002 by the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the request of the leaders of Cameroon and Nigeria.
Explaining that “this was to address the sovereignty claims of the two countries over the Bakassi Peninsula.”
Dujarric described the agreement as “an example that diplomacy takes time,” noting that this is part of a peaceful resolution of conflict that yielded good news.
