A long-running maritime dispute plus simmering tensions over Kenya's support for President Ahmed Madobe of the federal member state of Jubaland which Nairobi regards as a buffer against the Al Shabaab Islamist militia and Kenya's harbouring of Jubaland's fugitive security minister Abdirashid Hassan Abdinur Janan accused of war crimes had already left Kenya-Somalia relations at their lowest ebb in decades (AC Vol 61 No 6 Frontier fracas & Vol 60 No 18 Jubaland row heats up oil tiff)...