Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta is among several regional leaders attending the inauguration of Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Mogadishu.
President Kenyatta landed in Mogadishu minutes to noon accompanied by Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo, Defence CS Eugene Wamalwa and Agriculture’s Peter Munya.
Those in attendance include Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ,Djibouti leader Omar Ismael Guelleh ,South Sudan 2nd Vice President Taban Deng Gai, Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Kamal Madbouly and Uganda’s Defence Minister Vicent Bamulangaki.
Somalia and Kenya have had a frosty relationship in the recent years over the maritime dispute.
The two countries had engaged in a protracted legal tussle at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)over ownership of part of the Indian ocean.
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