MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – The Somali government has vowed to act against the Ethiopia-Somaliland agreement.
According to the state-owned media, the Somali cabinet will today hold an emergency meeting to discuss the agreement signed on Monday between Ethiopia and the Somaliland Administration.
Somalia posted on the social media platform “X,” formerly Twitter: “Ethiopia knows well that it can’t sign a military pact/MOU to lease a port with the regional head of state- that mandate is the prerogative of the Federal Government of Somalia.”
Landlocked Ethiopia has signed an initial agreement with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland to use its Red Sea port of Berbera.
The memorandum of understanding was signed by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi on Monday.
Somaliland President Abdi said the agreement included a statement that Ethiopia would recognise Somaliland as an independent country shortly.
Ethiopia lost its Red Sea ports in the early 1990s after the Eritrean War of Independence, which lasted from 1961 to 1991.
Last week, Somalia and Somaliland reached an agreement in Djibouti to strengthen cooperation on security and the fight against organised crime.
Discussion about this post