evidence: In addition to the above cases, one new case with a law of the sea dimension was referred to the Court during 2021. On 5 March, the Court was seized of a dispute between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea by means of a special agreement. In that agreement, which was signed in 2016 and came into force in March 2020, the parties request the Court to ‘determine whether the legal titles, treaties and international conventions invoked by the Parties have the force of law in the relations between [Gabon and Equatorial Guinea] in so far as they concern the delimitation of their common maritime and land boundaries and sovereignty over the islands of Mbanié/Mbañe, Cocotiers/Cocoteros and Conga’. The special agreement goes on to state that both parties recognise as applicable to the dispute the special Convention on the delimitation of French and Spanish possessions in West Africa, on the coasts of the Sahara and the Gulf of Guinea, signed in 1900. Gabon also recognises as applicable the Convention demarcating the land and maritime frontiers of Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, signed in 1974. [...] Land and Maritime Delimitation and Sovereignty over Islands (Gabon/Equatorial Guinea), Order, 7 April 2021, available at https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/179/179-20210407-ORD-01-00-EN.pdf.