{"id":123909,"date":"2026-06-26T22:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/?p=123909"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:02:55","slug":"123909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2026\/06\/123909\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister Jibril denied entry to Kenya."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kenyan government has reportedly denied entry to Somalia\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister, Jibril Abdirashid Haji, and returned him to Mogadishu, following a row over allegations that he had obtained a Kenyan passport illegally, according to Kenyan media reports.<\/p>\n

According to sources, Jibril Abdirashid landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Wednesday evening, arriving from Mogadishu on a Saacid Airlines flight. He was carrying a Somali diplomatic passport and a Kenyan entry visa.<\/p>\n

A Kenyan immigration source said officers stopped the official after they suspected he was also carrying a Kenyan passport that had been obtained illegally.<\/p>\n

He reportedly admitted to possessing the passport, but refused to hand it over to immigration officials, insisting that the matter be resolved in court.<\/p>\n

The official was held for hours in the VIP Lounge of the airport, where further checks were carried out on his travel documents, before being put on a Daallo Airlines flight back to Mogadishu.<\/p>\n

There has been no official statement from the Somali and Kenyan governments so far. However, a source at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the official had been returned.<\/p>\n

The incident comes as President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is on a visit to Kenya this week, where he met with Kenyan President William Ruto, and is expected to affect diplomatic relations between the two countries if it is not resolved formally.<\/p>\n

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The Kenyan government has reportedly denied entry to Somalia\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister, Jibril Abdirashid Haji, and returned him to Mogadishu, following a row over allegations that he had obtained a Kenyan passport illegally, according to Kenyan media reports. According to sources, Jibril Abdirashid landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Wednesday evening, arriving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhacdoyinka-caalamka","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123916,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123909\/revisions\/123916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}