By Editorial,
Somalia’s president will visit Ethiopia today, his office said, the strongest sign yet of improving relations between the two neighbors after a year of tensions over Addis Ababa’s plans to build a naval base in a breakaway Somali region.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will fly to Ethiopia from Uganda where he travelled earlier on this morning to attend a summit on African agriculture, his office said in a statement posted on the X platform.
While in Ethiopia he will hold discussions with Ethiopian leadership “to strengthen bilateral relations and advance shared priorities, the statement said.
On Jan. 2nd, Ethiopia also sent its Defense minister to Mogadishu, the first bilateral visit since relations between the countries soured. END.