Somalia’s President Signs Law Canceling Ethiopia Red Sea Access Deal
- Ethiopia signed deal with the breakaway region for sea access
- Somali president officially declared deal as null and void
The Independence Monument, depicting a hand holding a map of the country, in the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland.
Photographer: Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images
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Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially invalidated breakaway region Somaliland’s agreement to grant landlocked Ethiopia access to the Red Sea in exchange for a stake in Ethiopian Airlines.
Mohamud declared the memorandum of agreement entered into last week between Somaliland, a region of Somalia, and Ethiopia as “illegal,” in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday evening announcing that he’d signed a law that repealed the deal.