Uhuru dispatches Matiang’i to meet Somalia president‏

President Uhuru Kenyatta dispatched a delegation to meet his Somalia counterpart Mohamed Farmajo as part of efforts to quell tensions between the two neighbours over a border intrusion.

The team led by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i left for Mogadishu in the wake of clashes between the Somalia National Army and Jubbaland forces in Bulahawa, which is near the border town of Mandera.

The meeting took almost two hours.

“Following the recent wave of security challenges along the Kenya-Somalia border, some senior State officers and I have been dispatched by H E President Kenyatta to meet his counterpart, H E Farmajo, with a view to ironing out the persistent cross-border issues,” said Matiang’i.