HAGUE ( Halbeeg News) – International Court of Justice will start the hearing of the maritime dispute between Somalia and Kenya on September this year.
The hearing will start on September 9 and run through to September 13 at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague, Netherlands.
The court released a schedule of the trial on Tuesday.
There according to schedule there will be two parts of hearings – one on Monday and Wednesday, the other on Thursday and Friday, with each country being given two days to defend their cases.
Somalia will put on trial its case on the first day, September 9, through oral submissions between 10 am and 1 pm, then 3 pm to 4: 30 pm Hague time.
While Kenya will have the same time to respond on September 11.
The second round of oral submissions will be on Thursday September 12, with Somalia getting the time between 3 pm to 6 pm to respond.
Somalia took the dispute to the United Nations’ top court in August 2014.
Mogadishu rejected Nairobi’s claim to resolve the difference out of court.
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