Somalia and Ethiopia’s heightened diplomatic tension risks escalating after Mogadishu this week threatened to expel thousands of Ethiopian troops in Somalia to help fight Al-Shabaab… unless Addis Ababa scraps its ‘provocative’ coastland lease deal with Somaliland.
African Union Transition Mission in Somalia peacekeepers outside their convoy in Mogadishu, Somalia, after being hit by a bomb on 3 April, 2023.
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