evidence: For lack of consensus, the two neighboring countries, members of the international community and members of continental and regional groupings have decided to bring their border dispute to international justice on the subject of the property of the Mbanié, Cocotiers and Conga islands. Competent to judge territorial disputes between the States, the ICJ was seized so that the law is said on this subject which poisons the relations between the two countries. [...] In its capacity as civil party, Equatorial Guinea asks to "say whether the legal titles, treaties and international conventions invoked by the Parties are lawful in the relations between the Gabonese Republic and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea with regard to the delimitation of their common maritime and land borders and sovereignty over the Mbanié, Cocotiers and Conga islands ". [...] For several decades, the two countries have been fighting in particular for the sovereignty of the island of Mbanié, which is reputed to be rich in hydrocarbons. According to corroborating sources, the extension by the two States of their territorial waters beyond 12 nautical miles leads to reciprocal overlaps of their maritime territory.