ASMARA (Halbeeg) – Streets in the Eritrean capital Asmara have been lined with Somali flags and several banners welcoming Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo.
Several social media users posted pictures of Somali flags hoisted alongside Eritrean flags in the streets of the capital city of Eritrea.
https://twitter.com/Mogadishuupdate/status/1023156655951962112
When ERITREA is raising Somalia flag side by side with EriFlag, she means it. When IGAD decided to interfere in Somalia, #Eritrea said NO & suspended her membership over Somalia. Further, Eritrea is sanctioned with false accusations fabricated in IGAD over #Somalia. 🇪🇷🤝🇸🇴 pic.twitter.com/j9JIwLP3PK
— #InvestInEritrea 👩🏿🔧 🇪🇷🇪🇷 (@DahlaKib) July 27, 2018
A delegation led by President Farmajo has left the country for a three-day state to Eritrea for the first time in decades.
A spokesman said President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed had departed Saturday morning. “Somalia is ready to write a new chapter of its relations with Eriteria,” Abdinur Mohamed announced on Twitter.
The visit by Somalia’s leader follows a stunning diplomatic thaw in recent weeks between Eritrea and Ethiopia after more than two decades.
Ethiopia under reformist new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed already has asked that the U.N. sanctions on Eritrea be dropped.
#Streets of Asmara are decorated with #Somalia flags ahead @M_Farmaajo official visiting in #Asmara #Eritrea pic.twitter.com/P4dCoPjB3Z
— Awet 🏁🇪🇷 (@EriLoveer) July 27, 2018
Somali flag waves on the #Asmara Streets.
Somlia president @M_Farmaajo will pay 3 day visit there after he received invitation from Prez Isaias Afwerki.#Eritrea #Somalia pic.twitter.com/ASJOFml7yw— Anas Hajji Mohammed (@Eng_AnasHajji) July 28, 2018
The Somali national flag conjoined with that of #Eritrea are flying high above the streets and the boulevards of the Eritrean capital city #Asmara. The president of #Somalia will be in Asmara for 3 days after having received official invitation from his Eritrean counterpart. pic.twitter.com/hbrCU1SIHz
— Mohammed Omar Hussein (@shiinetown) July 28, 2018
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