{"id":293116,"date":"2020-12-15T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T10:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=293116"},"modified":"2020-12-15T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T11:05:12","slug":"somalia-orders-kenyan-diplomats-to-leave-country-in-ties-severance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=293116","title":{"rendered":"Somalia orders Kenyan diplomats to leave country in ties severance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1509305\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"47.180616740088\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1509313 size-full jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"Somalia orders Kenyan diplomats to leave country in ties severance\" width=\"553\" height=\"329\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/kenya-somalia.jpg?w=553&amp;ssl=1 553w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/kenya-somalia.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/kenya-somalia.jpg?resize=58%2C35&amp;ssl=1 58w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/kenya-somalia.jpg?resize=260%2C155&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/kenya-somalia.jpg?resize=200%2C119&amp;ssl=1 200w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/kenya-somalia.jpg?resize=553%2C329&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\"><br \/>\nSomalia announced on Tuesday it is severing diplomatic ties with Kenya, accusing Nairobi of \u201crecurring\u201d interference in its political affairs as Mogadishu prepares for long-awaited elections.<br \/>\n<!-- --><br \/>\nTensions had been rising between the neighbours and the announcement came as Kenya hosted the leadership of Somaliland, a breakaway state not recognised by the central government in Mogadishu which considers the territory part of Somalia.<br \/>\nInformation Minister Osman Abukar Dubbe told reporters that Kenyan diplomats in Mogadishu had been given seven days to leave, and that Somalia\u2019s envoys were being recalled from Nairobi.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Somali government considers the people of Kenya a peace-loving community who want to live in harmony with other societies in the region. But the current leadership of Kenya is working to drive the two sides apart,\u201d he said in Mogadishu.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government took this decision to respond to recurring outright political violations and interference by Kenya against the sovereignty of our country.\u201d\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia announced on Tuesday it is severing diplomatic ties with Kenya, accusing Nairobi of \u201crecurring\u201d interference in its political affairs as Mogadishu prepares for long-awaited elections. Tensions had been rising between the neighbours and the announcement came as Kenya hosted the leadership of Somaliland, a breakaway state not recognised by the central government in Mogadishu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[950,1335],"class_list":["post-293116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kenya","tag-somalia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/293117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}