THE HAGUE: The UN's top court handed Somalia control of most of a potentially oil and gas-rich chunk of the Indian Ocean on Tuesday after a bitter legal battle with Kenya.
Somalia urged Kenya to"respect the international rule of law" following the verdict by the court based in The Hague. Somalia had dragged Kenya to the court in 2014 after years of efforts to resolve a dispute over the 100,000 square-kilometre tract failed. "The verdict was a fair indication of the transparency of the International Court of Justice," said Farmajo, adding that he had faced"political, diplomatic, security and economic pressure by the Kenyan leadership".At the heart of the Somalia-Kenya dispute was the direction that their joint maritime boundary should take from the point where their land frontiers meet on the coast.
The ICJ on Tuesday threw out Kenya's argument that Somalia had"acquiesced" to its claims by not protesting more strongly. It also rejected the line Nairobi wanted to draw from the coast, saying it would have a"severe cut-off effect" for Somalia.
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