Somalia Concludes The First Round Presentation On Maritime case with Kenya

Somalia has finalised the first phase Presentation of its case in the first round of oral argument in the Maritime case with Kenya. The lawyers representing Somalia revealed that Kenya violated Somalia’s territorial integrity.

The Somalia government has praised the lawyers representing its case at the ICJ after the legal team concluded their first phase of oral arguments in the maritime dispute against Kenya.

Attorney General Suleiman Mohamed said Somalia lawyers representing the court had successfully completed the debate by presenting clear evidence of Somalia’s case’s legitimacy based on international principles and maritime law.

Kenya was scheduled to present its case to the court on Thursday between 3 PM and 6 PM and on Friday from 3 PM to 4:30 PM, but it has already notified the court that it would not participate in the hearings.

The international court will judge who has legal jurisdiction over a potentially lucrative, triangular stretch of 100,000 square kilometres of offshore territory believed rich in hydrocarbons and fish. Somalia argues that the maritime boundary should follow the land border’s direction – known as the median or equidistant boundary – and run diagonally. Conversely, Kenya wants it to run parallel to the latitude