Ghana–Ivory Coast relations continue on the same azimuth as the boundary within 200 M to the limit of national jurisdiction. Further, Ghana took the view that the said equidistance-based single maritime boundary is mutually recognized, agreed, and applied by Ivory Coast and there was a ‘tacit agreement’ between parties where the latter was estopped from objecting. The Special Chamber of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) ruled in favor of Ghana in the three-year-long maritime dispute between the country and Côte d’Ivoire. In a unanimous decision, the Tribunal found that contrary to the claims of the government in Abidjan,
History of Liberia the country, who constitute the majority of the population. Years of civil war have disrupted the country and its economy. Historians believe that many of the indigenous peoples of Liberia migrated there from the north and east between the 12th and 16th centuries AD. Portuguese explorers established contacts with people of the land later known as "Liberia" as early as 1462. They named the area "Costa da Pimentia" (Pepper Coast), or Grain Coast, because of the abundance of melegueta pepper, which became desired in European cooking. In 1602 the Dutch established a trading post at Grand Cape Mount but destroyed