Kenya Expects to End Somalia Border Dispute, Push Exploration
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Kenya, East Africa’s largest economy, expects to resolve a maritime border dispute with Somalia to expand oil and gas exploration in the area.
Kenya lodged a claim with the United Nations for the boundary to run parallel with lines of latitude in the Indian Ocean, said the energy ministry’s senior geologist Felix Mutunguti. Somalia is ready to negotiate, said the country’s National Resources Minister Abdirizak Omar Mohamed.