The Guinea–Ivory Coast border is 816 kilometres (507 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Mali in the north to the tripoint with Liberia in the south.[1]
The border starts in the north at the Malian tripoint, briefly going overland to the south-west before reaching the Sankarani River.[2] The border follows this river, then the Gbanhala, southwards, before joining the Kourou Kelle river. The border then proceeds overland to the south via a series of irregular lines, before reaching the Bagbe river, which it then follows as it flows to the west, followed by the Koure as it flows to the south. A series of irregular overland lines then connect southwards to the Liberian tripoint in the Nimba Range.[2]
Historyedit
France had begun signing treaties with chiefs along the modern Ivorian coast in the 1840s, thereby establishing a protectorate which later became the colony of Ivory Coast in 1893.[2] France has also annexed the coast of what is now Guinea in the late 19th century as the Rivières du Sud colony.[3] The area was renamed French Guinea 1894, and was later included within the French West Africa colony along with Ivory Coast. A border between the two was delimited by decree on 17 October 1899, with a more detailed description provided in a French arrete of 21 June 1911.[2]
As the movement for decolonisation grew in the post-Second World War era, France gradually granted more political rights and representation for their sub-Saharan African colonies, culminating in the granting of broad internal autonomy to French West Africa in 1958 within the framework of the French Community.[4] Guinea gained full independence in 1958, followed by Ivory Coast in 1960.
^CIA World Factbook – Guinea, retrieved 19 January 2020
^ abcdBrownlie, Ian (1979). African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia. Institute for International Affairs, Hurst and Co. pp. 300–303.
^Jean Suret-Canele (1971) French Colonialism in Tropical Africa 1900-1945 Trans. Pica Press, pp 87-88.
^Haine, Scott (2000). The History of France (1st ed.). Greenwood Press. p. 183. ISBN0-313-30328-2.
January 08, 2024
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