Somalia-Ethiopia tensions threaten Turkey’s bid to spread its influence

Turkey is deepening its cooperation with Somalia, this month sending a research ship to look for energy resources. But as Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, tensions between Somalia and Ethiopia are threatening Ankara’s ambitions in the Horn of Africa region.

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[fe]

Somalia and Ethiopia has nothing to negotiate. Who negotiates an aggressor who wants to annex your territory.

[LST]

The ship has nothing to do with Ethiopia 🇪🇹

[JAY.]

What a great news for the Somalians and Turkish people

[fe]

Ethiopia is lucky if it does not disintegrate before 2026 let alone to to threaten neighbouring nations & Turkiye interest.

[naasirsomali]

why Ethiopia is acting like that way against Somalia, you can make agreement with Somali government but not with regions instead of the federal government....

[mo-seid]

yes Ethiopia has more weapons than Somalia now, but with Egypts help we can defend our country, everybody knows ethiopia lost sea access just recently when Eritrea got independence, why Ethiopia don’t go after Eritrea oow no Essisi afwerki is there too hot to handle, he has strong army, abiye ahmed can’t mess with Eritreans so he is like, let me go after somalia they are weaker option now.

[Bigj-nd]

Ethiopia it’s landlocked country full stop and Somali land issue it’s Somali problem nothing to do with Ethiopia or someone else

[HalaneHalane-dn]

Somali and Turkiye have a long standing relationship while Ethiopia is the historical enemy of Somalia.

[BoojjiiBoojjii]

From now on Ethiopia should not negotiate with Egypt about Nile river. Egypt crossed red line now.

[consensualcode]

Ethiopia should avoid fighting over the Red Sea. They need to focus on securing the Nile (which they can accomplish if they don’t create new enemies with its neighbours). The Horn of Africa can get very wealthy if peace is maintained. Ethiopia having access to the Nile river, breadbasket, and limitless energy and Somalia + Eritrea + Djibouti can be wealthy by being port countries and oil producing nations handling the Red Sea. I have no clue why Africans fight each other or try to dominate each other.

[MohanMaxi-fiqi]

If that happens we (somalis) gonna have to deal with Ethiopia . Things will be hell like personally. by hitting the dam and infrastructure economic war will be responded economically war but. peace is a win for everyone

[liibaan]

Turkey think he can be everyone friends but the reality is not like that he wants to use somalia recourse to grow his economy and be friends with Ethiopia oromo Somalian should build like before strong army and throw out turkey just look gaza Erdogan is just a YouTuber talking and TikTok make clips