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> “The question is not will Ethiopia access the sea. We want Ethiopia to have access to the sea, there is no question about that,” Mohamud said, adding that the
by nujabe 3y ago
> “The question is not will Ethiopia access the sea. We want Ethiopia to have access to the sea, there is no question about that,” Mohamud said, adding that the federal government was ready to negotiate a deal with Addis Ababa. “But grabbing a piece of land, we are not ready for that.” - President of Somalia
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/1/23/dont-do-it-somali- https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/1/23/dont-do-it-soma...
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The UAE (and later the UK) invested in a major trade corridor and investment in a port in the region, initially Somalia rejected it but later agreed after UAE negotiated with the government.
Ethiopia has access to a major port in the region, in fact they own 20% of the DP world project. What they want is access to sea not for commercial reasons but for military reasons. You don’t need 20km of land for a port.
- grecy 3y agoSoooo, they have access to the ocean through a deal with Somalia... which like all landlocked countries is only as good as the current deal maker makes it.. and will cost them. Soooo, they don't have "access to the ocean" in any way differently than they ever have, or any other landlocked country has ever had. Gotcha.
- nujabe 3y agoYou talk as if being land locked is an economic death knell, Ethiopia is not the only country in the world (yet a lone region - which there are many) that is landlocked. This land for recognition isn’t going to solve truck congestion in Ethiopia. If they were interested in solving that they would’ve helped finance a rail line from Berbera to Addis, but as I mentioned Ethiopian PM is interested in selling to an uninterested public the deal of Ethiopia with a navy.
- grecy 3y ago[flagged]
- nujabe 3y agoThat rail line was opened in 2018 and is in service. I was talking about the port in Berbera. https://www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insight/news/british-international-investment-supports-inauguration-of-berbera-economic-zone/amp/ https://www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insight/news/british-internati...