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2024-01-08 Africa Horn
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Somali president signs law 'nullifying illegal' Ethiopia-Somaliland deal
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[AFRICANEWS] On Saturday (Jan. 06), Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed a law nullifying the memorandum of understanding signed between the Government of Æthiopia & Somaliland
 ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
The symbolic move comes as Æthiopia and a breakaway Somali region announced a deal on January 1st.
As part of the deal, Somaliland plans to lease a 20-km stretch of land along its coastline to Æthiopia to establish a naval base, Æthiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed said at the signing.
Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi said the agreement included a statement that Æthiopia would soon recognize the territory as an independent country.
That is where the bone of contention lies. Somaliland has always contested the legally binding character of the state of union which was to form a unified country after Somalia and Somaliland respectively gained independence from Italia and Britannia.
Somalia has described the move as an act of "aggression" and recalled its ambassador from Æthiopia.
The AU chairperson urged Æthiopia and Soamlia to engage without delay in a negotiation process to settle their differences
Æthiopia lost its access to the sea when Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
seceded in 1993. Æthiopia has been using the port in neighboring Djibouti for most of its imports and exports.
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