By Alec Soltes Egypt hasannounceda new security arrangement with Somalia, which would see Egyptian soldiers stationed in Somalia and cooperating...
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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 …
By Alec Soltes Egypt hasannounceda new security arrangement with Somalia, which would see Egyptian soldiers stationed in Somalia and cooperating...
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...
Somalia's minister of foreign affairs has said Somalia will consider establishing contacts with and support rebels fighting in Ethiopia if the...
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...
Addis Ababa (HOL) — Ethiopia has formally expressed its concerns to the United States over the potential deployment of Egyptian troops to Somalia,...
The region’s future as usual remains conflicted, confused and uncertain. In the past, at least, Ethiopia was considered stable. Today, however,...
Somalia has warned that corporations recognizing Somaliland as an independent state would be met with some penalty. Tensions between Somalia and...
Mogadishu (HOL) — The United States has officially rejected the port access deal between Ethiopia and Somaliland, calling for a diplomatic...