Ethiopia is increasingly concerned about a recent defense agreement between Egypt and Somalia. The deal, signed during Somali President Hassan Sheikh...
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Egypt sent its first military aid to Somalia in more than four decades on Tuesday, three diplomatic and Somali government sources said, a move likely to deepen tensions between the two countries and Ethiopia. Egypt and Somalia have grown closer this year after Ethiopia signed a preliminary deal with Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. Ethiopia wants to lease coastal areas of Somaliland in exchange for possible recognition of independence from Somalia. Somalia called the deal an attack on its sovereignty and said it would block it by any means necessary. Egypt, which has been at odds with Ethiopia for years over its construction of a massive dam on the upper Nile River, has denounced the Somaliland deal. Egypt signed a security pact with Somalia earlier this month, and has offered to send a new peacekeeping mission to Somalia. Somalia has previously threatened to expel about 10,000 Ethiopian troops, who are there as part of a peacekeeping mission and under a bilateral agreement to fight al Shabaab militants, if the deal is not scrapped. Two Egyptian military planes arrived at Mogadishu airport on Tuesday morning carrying weapons and ammunition, two diplomats and a senior Somali official told Reuters, speaking on …
Ethiopia is increasingly concerned about a recent defense agreement between Egypt and Somalia. The deal, signed during Somali President Hassan Sheikh...
By Alec Soltes Egypt hasannounceda new security arrangement with Somalia, which would see Egyptian soldiers stationed in Somalia and cooperating...
Egypt delivered its first military aid to Somalia in over four decades last Tuesday, according to diplomatic and Somali government sources. This move...
Egypt delivered its first military aid to Somalia in over four decades last Tuesday, according to diplomatic and Somali government sources. This move...
Ethiopia has been embroiled in a diplomatic row with Somalia after striking a deal with breakaway region Somaliland for access to a port on the Gulf...
Ethiopia has been embroiled in a diplomatic row with Somalia after striking a deal with breakaway region Somaliland for access to a port on the Gulf...
Tensions have heightened in the Horn of Africa after Egypt recently sent military equipment to Somalia. The move angered Ethiopia, already at...
Tensions have heightened in the Horn of Africa after Egypt recently sent military equipment to Somalia. The move angered Ethiopia, already at...
Egypt and Somalia have decided to hold joint military exercises in the Horn of Africa nation, in what appears to be a show of force that could...
Egypt and Somalia have decided to hold joint military exercises in the Horn of Africa nation, in what appears to be a show of force that could...