Ethiopia, Somalia Leaders Meet, Agree to Restore Relations
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, holds a joint press conference with Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, left, and Abiy Ahmed in Ankara, Turkey, on Dec. 11, 2024.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud held a meeting in Addis Ababa on Saturday, deepening a rapprochement brokered by Turkey last month.
Relations between the two Horn of Africa neighbors collapsed a year ago when landlocked Ethiopia reached a deal with a breakaway Somalia region giving it rights to set up a military base and a port on its Indian Ocean coastline. Somalia said the accord violated its territorial integrity.