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Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Agree to Demarcate Border after Skirmishes

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea have agreed to jointly map out
   a disputed border area after skirmishes between their troops left
   several wounded and property destroyed. Officials from the two
   countries are asking hundreds of traders and farmers who relocated
   because of the clashes to return to the disputed area but, some are
   reluctant.

   Officials from Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea agreed to work on
   defining their disputed border after a crisis meeting Monday night.

   Cameroon's South Region Governor Felix Nguele Nguele saidin the past
   two weeks there have been several skirmishes along the border with
   Equatorial Guinea's military.

   Nguele saidwhile nobody was killed, several troops were wounded, and
   goods were destroyed on both sides of the border.

   After the meeting Monday, he saidCameroon instructed local officials
   and traditional rulers to meet with their Equatorial Guinean peers to
   map out a proposed border.

   Nguele saidafter local officials agree on a proposed new border, the
   central governments in Malabo and Yaoundé will be able to decide if
   there will be a new demarcation or not. But for the time being, he
   said, people should go about their daily activities peacefully.

   Farmers and traders last week fled the border town of Kye-Ossi after
   tensions with troops on both sides.

   Justo Javier Ndong Engon is governor of Equatorial Guinea's Kie Ntem
   Province on the border with Cameroon.

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