Mogadishu — Government sources informed GO that Somali Federal Government (SFG) Minister of the Presidential Palace Farah Abdiqadir has been in Ethiopia trying to mend deteriorating ties, Garowe Online reports.

According to SFG sources, Minister Farah who has been in Ethiopia for the past three days has been meeting with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn to give an unidentified letter to the Ethiopian Prime Minister from the SFG President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

The sources tell GO that the two leaders relationship turned sour after President Hassan allegedly supported Egypt against Ethiopia who begun construction of a controversial dam along the Blue Nile.

The sources say that President Hassan backed Egypt against the building of the dam after an official visit by the Egyptian Ministry of Defence on June 4th. The delegation pledged to rebuild the dilapidated headquarters of the Ministry of Defence. Also the delegation began talks on how to rebuild the Somali Armed Forces.

Ethiopia has begun construction of the dam on the Blue Nile which will cut into the lion-share 55.5 billion cubic metres that Egypt receives from the Nile River. Ethiopia and five east African countries in the Nile Basin signed the Entebbe Treaty in 2010 that states that fair and reasonable use of the Nile River is principle. Uganda is one of the other East African countries that signed the treaty.

Destabilizing and weakening successive Ethiopian governments have been Egypt’s most efficiently exploited strategy to protect its monopolistic use of the Nile water. Cognizant of the internal contradictions and historical animosities among various Ethiopian constituencies, Egypt has often supported rebel groups fighting against Ethiopian rulers. This support has been both direct and indirect – in the past, it armed Eritrean and Tigrean rebels, backed Somalia’s support for Oromo and Somali insurgents, and also supported Siad Barre’s invasion.

Reportedly there was even a plan to settle millions of Egyptians in Somalia in order to balance Ethiopia’s population. Ethiopia has also alleged that Egypt took sides with Eritrea during the 1998-2000 border conflict. There is little doubt that Egypt has been using Eritrea to channel support for various Ethiopian and Somali insurgents. This Egyptian strategy has been fruitful, given the unfortunate fact that every Ethiopian ruler has relied heavily on violent suppression of dissent, and the implementation of policies that favors one ethnic group over the other, thus creating favorable domestic conditions for armed insurgency.

http://www.ethioobserver.net/Nile_interest.htm

Egypt has held talks with Somalia on the rehabilitation of the latter’s military facilities.
The Commander of the Somali Coast Guard Force, Admiral Farah Ahmed Omar Qare, told the media that two Egyptian generals had visited the country to study the ways rehabilitate the Somali National Army (SNA) facilities.

The Egyptian generals arrived at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle International Airport on Tuesday and were received by Somali military officials.

The Egyptian officials, who briefed the media, outlined their country’s commitment to assisting in the rebuilding of the war-ravaged infrastructure.

“We will aid Somalia on the rebuilding of the army headquarters and military hospitals,” stated the officials.
“The facilities will also serve the civilian population in the capital city,” they added.

Somali army is one of the institutions that had received promises of support from various countries and agencies, including the African Union, the European Union and Turkey.

The collapse of the central government led by General Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, occasioned the collapse of all the state institutions, including the military, in the Horn of Africa country.

Almost all the new Somali army recruits were trained in neighbouring Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.

Meanwhile, Somalia’s deputy minister for Public Works, Ports and Marine Transport, Nadifa Mohamed Osman, on a visit to Iraq, stated that Tehran would give $15 million assistance to Mogadishu.

Ms Nadifa told the press on Mogadishu Radio, a state run broadcaster, that the Iraqi fund would be used to rebuild public service institutions in the capital.

“Iraq will help Somalia in the rehabilitation of Lazaretti (also known as Forlanini) Hospital and Somali Institute of Development Administration and Management (SIDAM),” said the deputy minister.

She underlined that once rebuilt; the hospital would resume taking care of mental patients while SIDAM would resume training of personnel.
Source: Hiiraan.com

Do countries like Uganda and Rwanda support ethiopia?

Eri8: Do countries like Uganda and Rwanda support ethiopia?

their neutral

Is their anybody supporting ethiopia on building the dam?

Eri8: Is their anybody supporting ethiopia on building the dam?

nope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUol_4-c5S0
hope Ethiopia wins , we need to kick back those arabs in their desert/middle east and get back Egypt ..

lol at get back egypt.



Dude ethiopia cant defeat somalia let alone egypt. Somalia has defeated ethiopia in every war.


thats why half ethiopia is muslim, and half the land in ethiopia is inhabited by somalis.


Ethiopia is gonna loose, cause Eritrea, Somalia, Djbiouti are all arab leage memebers except eritrea is an observer state that has arabic as a national language

add that to the fact the arab league encompasses the middle east and north africa, their is no way ethiopia is gonna win

egypt just needs to bomb the damn, and thats it, cause ethiopia doenst have the money to rebuild it

CAMEROONPRIDE: uganda,kenya,congo,SA,tanzania,rwanda will b behind ethiopia, egypt can't win a war in Africa even israel will protect ethiopia lmao

all those countries are poor, egypt has the support of the muslim world,

ethiopia cant even beat somalia, what you talking about

half of ethiopia is muslim, half the land in ethiopia is inhabited by somalis

eritrea and djibouti are with egypt, and so is north africa

com one son.

Exactly...Didn't Israel not beat Egypt?

CAMEROONPRIDE: lol @ a somalian calling the countries i listed poor..lmao

Rwanda alone is like the Four Asian Tigers(South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore) compared to Somalia. Also adding their military experience fighting in the Congo wars.

KidStranglehold: Exactly...Didn't Israel not beat Egypt?

they beat the whole region at the same time and in 6days, they even invaded part of all of them territories lmao ...their pseudo islam/muslim brotherhood is a joke and can only work against weak nation..Ethiopia will fck egypt deep

CAMEROONPRIDE: they beat the whole region at the same time and in 6days, they even invaded part of all of them territories lmao ...their pseudo islam/muslim brotherhood is a joke and can only work against weak nation..Ethiopia will fck egypt deep

Ethiopia just needs Israel and the rest of East African countries and their good.

israel cant do shid


ethiopias own population are seeking independence

Somalis are Arab slaves

Eri8: Is their anybody supporting ethiopia on building the dam?

the other nile nations
On 14 May 2010 at Entebbe, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda signed a new agreement on sharing the Nile water even though this agreement raised strong opposition from Egypt and Sudan. Ideally, such international agreements should promote equitable and efficient usage of the Nile basin's water resources. Without a better understanding about the availability of the future water resources of the Nile River, we could expect more conflicts between these countries relying on the Nile for their water supply, economic and social developments.

TerryCarr: Somalis are Arab slaves

just cause you people are slaves doesnt mean everyone is


somalia and egypt have been allies for more than 5,000 years


we dont like ethiopia for different reasons, egyptains helping somalis doesnt make us slaves

riyaq:


just cause you people are slaves doesnt mean everyone is


somalia and egypt have been allies for more than 5,000 years


we dont like ethiopia for different reasons, egyptains helping somalis doesnt make us slaves

the fact that they are christian and they have a chunk of greater Somalia that's it. and what would Somalia benefit from helping Egypt? nothing. Ethiopia has the right to use the Nile

riyaq:


just cause you people are slaves doesnt mean everyone is


somalia and egypt have been allies for more than 5,000 years


we dont like ethiopia for different reasons, egyptains helping somalis doesnt make us slaves

From what I'm reading over the internet. People from Somaliland are in full support for Ethiopia. You clearly do not represent Somalis.

Don't believe me? Read the comments in this link.
http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Africa/Egypts-Instability-Triggers-a-New-Proxy-War-Against-Ethiopia-and-its-Allies.html

KidStranglehold:


From what I'm reading over the internet. People from Somaliland are in full support for Ethiopia. You clearly do not represent Somalis.

Don't believe me? Read the comments in this link.
http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Africa/Egypts-Instability-Triggers-a-New-Proxy-War-Against-Ethiopia-and-its-Allies.html

again your an idiooot.

somaliland is state inside somalia, and the people who live there are one small clan out ...they make up less than 10 percent of somalias population, and their leaders seek to have that region as an independent country......no one has recognised them for 20 years.....


not all people in somaliland support ethiopia.....but 95 percent of somalis support egypt.


the somali government already said it supports egypt.....and thats the official somali governments position.

riyaq:


again your an idiooot.

somaliland is state inside somalia, and the people who live there are one small clan out ...they make up less than 10 percent of somalias population, and their leaders seek to have that region as an independent country......no one has recognised them for 20 years.....


not all people in somaliland support ethiopia.....but 95 percent of somalis support egypt.


the somali government already said it supports egypt.....and thats the official somali governments position.

Oh...You mean the rebels of Southern Somalia? Oh okay.

ur an idioot


ethiopia and somalia are enemies


the government has already supported egypt


alshabaab supports egypt


who is left? lol

CAMEROONPRIDE: you guys should stop talking with this animal, you make it sounds like Somalia is some kind of military power lol..Uganda is enough to wipe off Somalia.

True. True.

Somalis dont fear death and die by the hundreds of thousands



somalia is the only nation that has destroyed ethiopia time and time again


we are good at guriella warfare and believe in jihad


thats why ethiopia left somalia in 2009 after three years of getting whoopped by a bunch of teenagers

and lets not forget ahmed gurey who in 1500's destroeyd all of ethiopia and enslaved them all

riyaq: Somalis dont fear death and die by the hundreds of thousands



somalia is the only nation that has destroyed ethiopia time and time again


we are good at guriella warfare and believe in jihad


thats why ethiopia left somalia in 2009 after three years of getting whoopped by a bunch of teenagers

and lets not forget ahmed gurey who in 1500's destroeyd all of ethiopia and enslaved them all

"Area of Ethiopian operations in Somalia since their official withdrawal in January 2009."


so much for the religion of peace.

why are all blacks somehow worship those short midgets i will never kno