BY TESFANEWS Somalia’s lower parliament has voted to nullify a port investment deal between DP World, Ethiopia and the autonomous region of Somaliland with a landslide 168 votes out of 170. The agreement announced on March 1, would give landlocked Ethiopia a 19 percent stake in Somaliland’s Port of Berbera, which is being developed by […]
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BY ABDI SHEIKH | REUTERS Some Somali lawmakers said on Wednesday they plan to impeach the president in a mounting political crisis that could put the fledgling government on a violent collision course with one of the country’s most powerful clans.
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By Abukar Mohamed-Wardi, Let’s start with the basic facts: Ethiopia is desperately trying to get Hassan Sheikh Mohamud re-elected as a president of Somalia. The evidence of this effort was encapsulated in a recent report by a think-tank affiliated with Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry and external intelligence. Ethiopia’s renewed agenda goes against the wishes of the […]
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