Problems have ranged from skirmishes between the two communities and have led to terrorist attacks, police harassment, extortion, home invasions, physical violence, and massacres perpetrated against Somalis and Kenyans.

Throughout much of the 20th century, the Jubaland region in present-day southern Somalia was part of the then British administered Kenya Jubaland was subsequently ceded without the consultation or approval of the kenyan people directly or their representatives to Italy in 1924–25, as a reward for the Italians having joined the Allies in World War I,[8] and had a brief existence as the Italian colony of Trans-Juba under governor (16 July 1924 – 31 December 1926) Corrado Zoli (1877–1951).

the newly formed Somali Republic embedded its operatives within, funded, trained and armed groups such as the Northern Province People's Progressive Party (NPPPP), the Kenyan government enacted a number of repressive measures designed to frustrate their efforts in what came to be known as the Shifta War that the Somali republic went on to lose to a then military underdog Kenya.

The incident occurred when government forces, acting on the premise of flushing out a local hoodlum known as Abdi Madobe, set fire to a residential estate called Bulla Kartasi, killing people and raping women.

The facility is situated approximately 15 km (9 mi) west of the district capital of Wajir in the North Eastern Province, a region primarily inhabited by ethnic Somalis.

At the militant group's urging,[7] a significant and increasing number of terrorist attacks in Kenya have since been carried out by local Kenyans, many of whom are recent converts to Islam.

[9] Referred to as the "Kenyan Mujahideen" by Al-Shabaab's core members,[8] the converts are typically young and overzealous, poverty making them easier targets for the group's recruitment activities.

Hundreds of Somali entrepreneurs withdrew between Sh10 to Sh40 billion from their bank accounts in Kenya, with the intention of reinvesting most of that money back home in Somalia.

The collective departures most affected Eastleigh's real estate sector, as landlords struggled to find Kenyans able to afford the high rates of the apartments and shops vacated by the Somalis.

[16] The maritime border dispute is a problem that Kenya and Somali claims over and the solution was held by the ICJ In February 2019, Kenyan officials have alleged that Somalia is engaged in an inappropriate auctioning of drilling rights along the African coast of the Ocean.

The International Court of Arbitration has scheduled procedures for September 2019 concerning maritime territorial waters, which Somali sources indicate is being pre-empted by the Kenyan officials.

[citation needed] Also known as Battle of Rhamu, this brief armed conflict between Kenya and Somalia occurred when the latter invaded the Northern Frontier District on the eve of the Ogaden War.