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Toronto – Somalia and Ethiopia continue conversation to further strengthen bilateral relations after they ended hostility over a year or so ago following Turkish mediation which led to the Ankara Declaration in December 2024.
The latest conversation was between Gedion Timoteos, Ethiopia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, and Somalia’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ali Mohamed Oumer who is in Ethiopia to attend the Tana Forum which is discussing “security in Africa.”
“The two sides discussed strengthening bilateral ties through sustained engagement. They also explored coordination strategies for the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) and reaffirmed their commitment to enhancing joint efforts in combating terrorism in the region,” Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a brief news release it shared on its social media page on Saturday.
Notably, Hassan Sheikh Mohammed was in Ethiopia a little over a week ago as part of the two countries’ effort to strengthen their relations.
A day or so after his arrival, Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdilahi arrived in Addis Ababa where he met with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and other Ethiopian government officials.
Throughout 2024, Ethiopia and Somalia had a tense relation over the memorandum of understanding the former signed a memorandum of understanding with Somaliland on January 1, 2024.
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This is good news. The peoples of these two countries are by Allah’s Blessings created to live in harmony, peace and striving for the common goal. History has without an iota of doubt shown us that when one suffers, the other one feels the pain and suffers too as a result. The sun shines when the two work together and daytime goes dark when one turns its back on the other. Our Somali brothers and sisters along with their Afar neighbors are finding their mojo faster than others in the region. Both peoples of Somalia and present day Ethiopia have been victims of the dreaded Wahhabi and other religious extremism at various times in their history. The land of Punt was nothing without its next door neighbors and Axum was nothing without its neighbors in the Punt. That is a fact of history. Know it, live it!