Douglas Mpuga
Friday August 30, 2024
Egypt delivered military equipment to Somalia this week amid rising tensions in the Horn of Africa following a controversial deal struck between neighboring Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland earlier this year.
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Reuters, citing diplomatic and
Somali government sources, says that two Egyptian military planes
carrying weapons and ammunition landed at Aden Adde International
Airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday morning. Abdi Ismail Samatar,
professor at the University of Minnesota and a senator in the Somali
parliament, tells VOA’s Douglas Mpuga, if these tensions are not
resolved, then war is likely.