evidence: After a border dispute in 1898, France and Italy signed a Protocol Agreement on 24 July 1900. This protocol defined the north-eastern section of the border as running from the northernmost tip of Ras Doumeira on the Red Sea coast, through the watershed along the peninsula for approximately 18 kilometres and then heading along a straight line – delimited by the 1901 protocol but never marked – towards the southwest to Bissidiro on the banks of the We'ima (Oueima) River.Footnote 4 Under this protocol, Ras Doumeira fell under the territory of what is now Djibouti. Article 3 of the 1900 protocol further provided that until France and Italy could resolve the issue of which state would hold sovereignty over the Doumeira Islands and the unnamed adjacent islands, both colonial powers would refrain from attempting to occupy them and would prevent any third party from occupying them. Article 2 of this protocol provided for a special commission to delimit the boundary inland from Ras Doumeira.