Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland signed a deal last month, leasing Mogadishu the land to build a port and naval base. Somalia accused Ethiopia on Saturday of trying to annex part of the country's territory by signing a sea access deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told reporters as he arrived for an African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa that Ethiopia and Somaliland had signed an agreement that is "nothing more than annexing part of Somalia to Ethiopia, and changing the borders of Somalia." Was Mohamud blocked from entering AU summit? While Somaliland is largely stable, Somalia has witnessed decades of civil war and an Islamist insurgency by the Al-Shabab militant group.

Source: Ethiopian News February 18, 2024 12:43 UTC