Egypt Sends Arms to Somalia After Security Deal

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 …

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