Mediation talks hosted by Türkiye between Somalia and Ethiopia have stalled, diplomats from both countries said, amid deepening tensions over Ethiopia's contentious port access agreement with ...

Ethiopia pays around $1.5 billion annually to Djibouti in port fees, proving costly for the country, one of the poorest in the world, with a per capita gross national income of $1,020, per the World ...

By October Somalia had formed a military alliance with Egypt and Eritrea, Ethiopia’s bitterest foes, as Ethiopia’s army chief mused openly about arming groups hostile to the Somali government.

“Ethiopia cannot take a piece of land from Somalia forcefully,’’ said Mr. Mohamud, banging his hand on his desk, during an interview in his office in Mogadishu last week.

The Egyptian government has confirmed sending arms shipments to Somalia amid regional tension over Ethiopia’s controversial deal with the self-declared republic of Somaliland.

Ethiopia and Somalia agreed on Wednesday to hold “technical talks” to resolve a dispute sparked by Ethiopia’s deal with Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a statement ...

At a press conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, they revealed that landlocked Ethiopia is to lease a naval port and a 20km stretch of coastline in the breakaway Somali state.

Somalia has also deepened ties with Ethiopia's historic enemy Eritrea, which seceded from Ethiopia in 1993 and fought a bloody border war with its former ruler from 1998-2000.

Somalia on Tuesday vowed to defend its territory after a controversial deal between Ethiopia and the breakaway state of Somaliland that it branded an "aggression".