EU Reaffirms Support for Somalia’s Territorial Integrity

GOOBJOOG NEWS: The European Union has expressed its “full support” to the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Somalia, amid rising tensions over a port deal between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland.

EU’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, said he had a phone conversation with Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Thursday, and reaffirmed the bloc’s commitment to the Horn of Africa nation.

“I reaffirmed the full support of the EU to the unity, the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of #Somalia. The Horn of Africa doesn’t need more tensions,” Borrell wrote on X.

His statement came after Somalia rejected a pact that Somaliland signed with Ethiopia on Monday.

Earlier this week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on granting Ethiopia access to the Red Sea through the port of Berbera in Somaliland.

Somalia rejected the deal, calling it a threat to good neighborliness and a violation of its sovereignty.