Somalia to Kenya: Respect international rule of law on border row

Somali President Mohamed Farmaajo.

Somali President Mohamed Farmaajo. PHOTO | AFP

Somalia's president urged Kenya to "respect the international rule of law" after the UN's top court handed Mogadishu control of most of a potential oil- and gas-rich chunk of the Indian Ocean on Tuesday following a bitter row with Nairobi.

Kenya got only a small slice of the disputed tract of the sea off the East African coast in the ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) based in The Hague.