Somalia/Kenya: ICJ to hold hearings on border dispute

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold public hearings in the maritime border dispute between Somalia and Kenya on 19-23 September in The Hague. The hearings will concern solely the preliminary objections to the jurisdiction of the court and the admissibility of the application raised by Kenya in October 2015, an ICJ statement said. Kenya maintains that the Indian Ocean boundary should be a straight line running directly east from the point at which the two countries meet on land.