Somalia expelled the Ethiopian ambassador

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the Ethiopian government in January 1402 with the authorities of the region known as Somalia Land, which wants to separate from Somalia, signed an agreement based on which, in exchange for recognizing this area, a 20-kilometer passage will be allocated for Ethiopia to reach the Red Sea for 50 years, and Ethiopia will establish a military base there.

Following the signing of this agreement, the president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, signed the law canceling the Ethiopia-Somaliland agreement, and since then, the tension between Somalia and Ethiopia rose.

Somaliland is a region in the north of Somalia where the tribes living there declared independence in 1991, but no No country in the world has recognized Somaliland and only an autonomous region of Somalia is recognized at the international level. In Somalia’s internal affairs and the violation of national sovereignty, he asked the Ethiopian ambassador in Mogadishu to leave Somalia within 72 hours.

according to “Somali” newspaper New Mogadishu edition, the Somali government ordered the closure of the Ethiopian consulate in Somaliland (North) and the semi-independent state of Puntland (East – coast of the Gulf of Adan) and gave Ethiopian employees and diplomats working in the said consulates a week to return to their homes. leave Somalia.

The Ethiopian government has not reacted to the expulsion of its ambassador from Mogadishu, but the Somaliland and Pancontinental authorities have announced: the order of the Somali government Regarding the closure of the Ethiopian consulate in these areas, they will not exercise their authority.

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