Uhuru rejects ICJ ruling on the Kenya-Somali maritime border dispute

President Uhuru Kenyatta
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has rejected the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) ruling on the Kenya-Somali maritime border dispute.

The Head of State, in an official statement, said that Kenya is not part the decision.y to

"At the outset, Kenya wishes to indicate that it rejects in totality and does not recognize the findings in the decision," Uhuru said in a statement.

On Tuesday, the court awarded Somalia a large portion of the disputed territory rich in oil and natural gas in its verdict.

Uhuru accused the court of prejudice for not allowing Kenya to exhaust all regional dispute resolution channels first.

Instead, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) took charge of the case, bypassing all existing mechanisms for resolving border disputes.

He went on to say that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) lacked the legal jurisdiction and competence to settle the dispute.

"A trend has emerged of some supposedly international organizations, being deployed as political tools against African countries. Sadly, this misfeasance has infected the ICJ, leading it to impose jurisdiction on a dispute it had neither jurisdiction nor competence," the president added.

He urged the international community to step in and assist the two countries in reaching a diplomatic agreement to end the standoff.

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