Somali government rules against DP World

The Government of Somalia has declared that all contracts with DP World are “null and void” following controversy surrounding the country’s Port of Berbera.

Nearly all 170 members of the Somali parliament voted in favour of the motion, declaring that a recent agreement to sell a 19% stake in the Berbera facility to land-locked Ethiopia was “contrary to the constitution of Somalia”.

Berbera sits within Somaliland, a self-declared republic but an area that is internationally recognised as a part of Somalia. The agreement on March 1, 2018, to sell the stake in the Berbera facility was made between DP World, the Ethiopian government and Somaliland government, but not the Somali government.