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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia expelled Kenya’s ambassador and recalled its own envoy from Nairobi after accusing its neighbour of interfering in the electoral process in Jubbaland, one of Somalia’s five semi-autonomous states.
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Relations between the countries have been tense over the ownership of potential oil and gas deposits, some of which lie off the coast of Jubbaland.
Somalia did not go into further details on the alleged interference, while Kenya denied any wrongdoing and dismissed what it called “unsubstantiated allegations”.
“As a result of the Kenyan government’s political interferences in the internal affairs of Somalia, the regional President of Jubbaland has reneged on the election agreement that was reached on the 17th September 2020 in Mogadishu,” Somalia’s foreign ministry said late on Sunday.
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UPDATE 1-Somalia s al Shabaab says behind Turkish company attack, four dead Reuters 1/2/2021
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ISTANBUL, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A car bomb targeting workers of a Turkish company killed four people including one Turkish citizen on Saturday in Somalia, Turkey s Foreign Ministry said.
The company s staff were working on the construction of a road between Mogadishu and Afgoye, northwest of the capital, the ministry statement said.
Abdiasis Abu Musab, military operation spokesman for the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, said the group was behind the attack.
Somali government officials did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment. The attack occurred outside the capital Mogadishu, according to residents in the area of the blast.
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Car bomb targeting Turkish company kills four in Somalia - ministry Reuters 1/2/2021
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A car bomb targeting workers of a Turkish company killed four people including one Turkish citizen on Saturday in Somalia, Turkey s Foreign Ministry said.
The company s staff were working on the construction of a road between Mogadishu and Afgoye, northwest of the capital, the ministry statement said. It did not say who was behind the attack.
Somali government officials did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment. The attack occurred outside the capital Mogadishu, according to residents in the area of the blast.
Turkey has been a major source of aid to Somalia following a famine in 2011 as Ankara seeks to increase its influence in the Horn of Africa to counter Gulf rivals like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.