CAMEROON-NIGERIA: Bakassi’s displaced in flux, peninsula vulnerable

ABUJA Friday, October 24, 2008 (IRIN) - A 18 October rebel attack on the Bakassi peninsula exposes the region’s continued vulnerability to “insurgency, piracy and unruliness,” according to a UN senior officer who coordinates the Cameroon Nigeria Mixed Commission that oversaw the handover of the peninsula from Nigerian to Cameroonian authorities on 14 August. For decades, Cameroon and Nigeria had disputed ownership of the possibly resource-rich peninsula, taking their case to the UN...