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2024-10-16 Africa Horn
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Al-Shabaab taking advantage of Somalia-Ethiopia conflict, says US
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[Garowe] Senior US officials are weary of the conflict between Somalia and Æthiopia over access to the Red Sea, which has preoccupied Mogadishu for the last nine months after Addis Ababa made its occupation intentions public.
Æthiopia has signed a deal with 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....
, a breakaway region of Somalia, which if implemented, would see it getting 20 kilometers of the Red Sea for construction of a military base and port in exchange for recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state.
The move has angered Somalia, which accuses Æthiopia of annexation plans and infringement of its territorial integrity and illusory sovereignty. Consequently, Somalia has signed a military agreement with Egypt, further worsening tensions in the Horn of Africa.
And U.S. officials and their Western allies worry Somalia is so preoccupied with its quarrel with Æthiopia that it has allowed al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
to regain territory and momentum it had lost. Before this conflict, the government of Somalia had declared total war against al-Shabaab bad boys.
Within two years, significant progress was recorded in central and southern regions, where the group lost traditional bases after military operations. Thousands of the gunnies were killed while others voluntarily surrendered to the government.
Further, the government of Somalia was able to identify various sources of al-Shabaab income, blocking quite much of what suffocated the group’s ability to operate. Such gains now risk suffering huge fate, following the emerging conflict in the region, officials in the State Department said.
Egypt—furious over a giant Grand Renaissance Dam Æthiopia built on the Blue Nile—has joined Somalia’s camp and last month delivered a shipload of artillery and antitank weapons to Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital.
The U.S., which has 450 commandos and other defense personnel stationed in Somalia to advise local troops Danab fighting al-Shabaab and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, is concerned that the entry of Egypt would further complicate the fight against al-Shabaab, Wallstreet Journal reports.
Somalia maintains that Egypt will take charge of the new mission dubbed the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Support and Stabilization Mission (AUSSOM) which is set to replace the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) within the next three months.
Æthiopia has traditionally helped in peacekeeping missions in Somalia and its troops are credited for the liberation of many strategic towns across the country. But Somalia says it is fed up with Æthiopia, insisting that it remains 'unwelcome' in the peacekeeping mission.
There is a divided option over Egypt's increasing involvement in Somalia's tussles with Æthiopia. Uganda, one of the countries whose support towards fighting al-Shabaab remains invaluable, questioned the intentions of Cairo, given its long absence from the Stabilization teams.
Somalia has reduced operations against al-Shabaab, with the US now saying the conflict with Æthiopia is partly to blame. For instance, the second phase of operations against al-Shabaab in southern regions was halted under unknown circumstances despite earlier plans.
The al-Shabaab has been waging attacks recently, targeting various military installations across Somalia. Over the weekend, the group targeted one of the bases under the command of the Æthiopian National Defense Forces.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had previously noted the negative impact of Æthiopia's desires to expand territory and exert influence in the Horn of Africa, admitting that such plans would trigger the resurgence of the al-Shabaab group, which had lost ground. 
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