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
Sub-Saharan Africa West and Central Africa), or sometimes extending from the coast of West Africa to Western Sudan. Its equivalent in Southeast Africa was "Zanj" ("Country of the Blacks"), which was situated in the vicinity of the Great Lakes region. The geographers drew an explicit ethnographic distinction between the Sudan region and its analogue Zanj, from the area to their extreme east on the Red Sea coast in the Horn of Africa. In modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea was "Al-Habash" or Abyssinia, which was inhabited by the "Habash" or Abyssinians, who were the forebears of the Habesha. In northern Somalia was "Barbara" or