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Why Ethiopia is so alarmed by an Egypt-Somalia alliance Erdogan said the agreement - announced on Wednesday night in the Turkish capital, Ankara - was "the first step towards a new beginning".
In response to Ethiopia's attempts to establish a naval base and recognize Somaliland, Somalia has increasingly turned to Egypt. In August 2024, the Somali government announced that in January 2025, the Egyptian military would replace the Ethiopian troops currently deployed with the African Union force in Somalia, with 10,000 Egyptian troops ...
One of the diplomats said that Somalia was "playing with fire" by importing the Egyptian arms and antagonising Ethiopia. Somalia and Egypt's foreign ministries, and a spokesperson for the ...
If Ethiopia claimed it gave you recognition, then it is not a recognition that exists." [7] On 3 January, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held a telephone call with the Somali president, stating "Egypt will maintain a firm position alongside Somalia and support its security and stability". [8] Mogadishu recalled its ambassador to ...
Egypt: Egypt has offered to send 10,000 troops to Somalia, [31] 5,000 for AUSSOM and another 5,000 that will work independently in Somalia's Hiiraan region bordering Ethiopia. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] In response to Ethiopia's attempts to establish a naval base and recognize Somaliland, Somalia has increasingly turned to Egypt.
The spat has drawn Somalia closer to Egypt, which has quarrelled with Ethiopia for years over Addis Ababa's construction of a vast hydro dam on the headwaters of the Nile River.
Ethiopia's deal to lease a port in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has infuriated the government in Mogadishu and prompted concern it will further destabilise the Horn of Africa region.
In 1948, under pressure from their World War II allies and to the dismay of the Somalis, [11] the British authorities in British Somaliland "returned" the Haud — an important Somali pastoral area that was presumably 'protected' by British treaties with the Somalis in 1884 and 1886 — and the Ogaden to Ethiopia, based on a treaty they signed in 1897 in which the British ceded Somali ...