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| Somaliland President Ahmed Silanyo and Ethiopia PM Desalegn in a handshake of friendship during a recent meeting in addis Ababa/file |
"Ethiopia which covers an area of 1.14 million
square Kilometers (944,000 square miles) is located in the centre of the Horn
of Africa. It shares borders with the Sudan and South Sudan to the west;
Eritrea to the north and north-east; Djibouti and Somaliland to the east;
Somalia and Kenya to the south"
By: Yumoha Pasha
The relationship between the two neigbouring countries of
Ethiopia and Somaliland stretch far and wide.
Somaliland which remains internationally unrecognized as
a sovereign country over two decades since it pulled out of its voluntary later
turned ugly union with Somalia thence devoid of official bi-lateral relations
with world governments is fortunate for having Ethiopia as its friend.
Ethiopia which was the first and still remains the only
country to establish and maintain full diplomatic relations with Somaliland
where, the Addis Ababa authorities have a fully fledged embassy and ambassador
resident in Hargeisa.
With some powerful governments purportedly friends of
Somaliland claim to have diplomatic relations run by in-house diplomats based
in Hargeisa the fact is that they, missions, are nothing more than window
dressing gimmicks as the supposed diplomats are in actual fact development and
humanitarian experts overseeing related aid by their governments.
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