THE GAME IS OVER BUT THE GABONESE SIDE STILL PRETENDS TO GESTURE ! LES JEUX SONT FAITS MAIS LA PARTIE GABONAISE FAIT ENCORE SEMBLANT DE GESTICULER !
English version On July 28, 2026, in Addis Ababa, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea signed a Joint Commitment Agreement under the auspices of the African Union. This document formalizes Libreville's acceptance of the ruling issued in May 2025 by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which definitively recognized Equatorial Guinean sovereignty over the Mbanie, Cocotiers, and Conga islands as the successor state to Spain. This is now legally final, and anyone telling you otherwise on social media or through a press release from the presidency of the republic is making a fool of you! However, while the territorial status is settled, the residual agitation in certain Gabonese circles allegedly stems from the fact that these individuals want negotiations to follow regarding the immense macroeconomic stakes underlying this dispute. The Gabonese administration's attention has pragmatically shifted from the land to the sea, as no serious person believes for a single moment that Gabon co...