Kenya’s never-ending gaffes on Somaliland

A street in Hargeisa, Somaliland.

A street in Hargeisa, Somaliland. PHOTO | AFP

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Kenya’s Senate Speaker Amason Jeffah Kingi became the latest senior government official to goof on the one-Somalia policy, naming the breakaway Somaliland region as a republic with which Kenya “enjoy ties that stretch back to its days under British colonial rule, which bequeathed them almost similar systems and structures of governance at independence.”

Kingi said after meeting with Mohamed Ahmed Mohamoud, the head of the Liaison Office for Somaliland in Nairobi, to whom he referred as “ambassador to Kenya”.