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Somalia parliament in heated debate over border with Kenya

Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Somali MPs terms Kenya's move to build barrier along the Kenya-Somali border as unilateral as Kenya has not consulted the Somali government. 
(PHOTO: COURTESY)

The barrier that the government seeks to build along the border with Somalia was a subject of heated debate in the Somali Parliament on Saturday.

While debating a motion about the wall in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Somali MPs expressed reservations about the plan, terming the the move as unilateral as Kenya has not consulted the Somali government.

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