Ghana–Ivory Coast relations prescribe inter alia, that Ghana should take all necessary steps to ensure that no new drilling takes place in the disputed maritime areas; also in addition, Ghana should take all necessary steps to prevent undisclosed from being used to the detriment of Ivory Coast information on past, ongoing or future activities in the disputed area. Once the provisional order was delivered, the main proceedings followed. Ghana, the country which instituted the action, based its preliminary basis to delimit the boundary on an equidistance-based single maritime boundary in the territorial sea, EEZ, continental shelf within 200 M, and the same to
History of Liberia Leone, and the Natives of Africa generally, in the Cultivation of their Soil, by the Sale of their Produce.” As Wright put it, "Cuffee hoped to send at least one vessel each year to Sierra Leone, transporting African-American settlers and goods to the colony and returning with marketable African products." The first ship, "Mayflower of Liberia" (formerly "Elizabeth"), departed New York on February 6, 1820, for West Africa carrying 86 settlers. Between 1821 and 1838, the American Colonization Society developed the first settlement, which would be known as Liberia. On July 26, 1847, the country declared independence. As early as