Anxiety as Kenya mum on oil blocks row despite talks

President Uhuru Kenyatta with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somalia President Abdullahi Farmajo on Wednesday in Nairobi. [Courtesy]

The diplomatic row between Kenya and Somalia over the latter’s alleged decision to auction disputed offshore oil blocks in the Indian Ocean appears to have been amicably resolved, if words of Somali officials is anything to go by.

Nairobi remains mum on the matter even after a meeting between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Somali counterpart Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo on Wednesday.