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Somalia’s Information Minister Osman Dubbe has criticized neighboring Kenya for its hostile stance towards Somalia and the Somalis, saying the Somali government’s patience with the neighboring country has run out.
At a press conference in the capital, Mogadishu, Minister Dubbe listed some of the Kenyan actions that continually enrage Mogadishu.
According to the minister, Kenya has been harassing travelers from Somalia and its troops in Somalia have been operating outside the mandate of the African Union Mission.
He accused the neighboring country of using its control over the regional state of Jubbaland to undermine Somalia’s sovereignty and the 2020/21 electoral process.
In addition, Kenyan troops have been destroying Somali telecommunications companies, regularly targeting the Hormuud and Somtel facilities along the border between the two countries and in other parts of the country, the minister said.
He said Nairobi has become a base from which attacks on the stability, unity, territorial integrity and political independence of Somalia are incubated, organized and launched.
In contrast, the minister said that Ethiopia has ceased all acts of meddling in Somalia affairs since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power, with the Ethiopian government now on the same level as the Somali federal government.
This is why relations with Ethiopia are prospering while ties with Kenya continue to worsen.
Somalia has recently banned the import of khat from Kenya, with Ethiopia being the main country exporting the stimulant to Somalia, a severe blow to Kenyan khat producers, who of late have been pleading with the Kenyan government to resolve the matter with Somalia. .
The minister’s comments come after Somalia expelled the Kenyan ambassador to Mogadishu and removed his envoy in Nairobi, accusing him of interference in the 2020/21 elections.
Kenya has denied the allegations and said it hoped the Somali government would resolve its disagreements with Jubbaland.
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