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Hundreds of residents of Bulla-hawa protest against border wall construction by Kenya

Storyline:National News

The residents of Bulla-hawo town in Gedo region have protested against Kenya’s plan to construct a security wall along its porous border with Somalia.

Angry locals have faulted government Kenya’s move to build a security wall along its border with Somalia saying beacons were erected on Somali land.

Elder Abdullahi Ereg speaking Goobjoog news said that Kenya has been carrying out some moves that the residents of the town were unhappy with.

He highlighted that several kilometers of Somali land “has been taken” in the Gedo region along the border.

This comes at a time a joint parliamentary committee of Foreign Relations and Interior will tomorrow reached the town to assess the situation following claims Kenya had encroached into Somalia’s territory in the ongoing border construction.

Last year Somali government filed 150-page court filing on Somalia’s maritime border dispute with Kenya at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

Somalia in its application is requesting the  ICJ to “determine, on the basis of international law, the complete course of the single maritime boundary dividing all the maritime areas appertaining to Somalia and to Kenya in the Indian Ocean, including the continental shelf beyond 200 [nautical miles].” It also asks the ICJ “to determine the precise geographical coordinates of the single maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean.”