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The governments of Somalia and Egypt are getting closer to each other while Ethiopia is looking at the surface and is worried about the alliance between Mogadishu and Cairo.
The Prime Minister of the federal government of Somalia, Mr. Hamza Abdi Barre, yesterday received the Egyptian Ambassador to Somalia, Mohamed Al-Said Ahmed Al-Baz, in his office.
The meeting between the Prime Minister and the Ambassador was focused on the traditional relationship between the two brotherly countries and how to strengthen it, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s office.
Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017
Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017
The ambassador of the Egyptian government to Somalia, Mohamed Al-Said Ahmed Al-Baz, praised the efforts of the Somali government led by Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre.
This meeting came two months after Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud visited Cairo, where he held talks with his counterpart Abdifatah al-Sisi.
That meeting led to the Ethiopian government canceling a planned trip for Somali President Hassan Sheikh to Addis-Ababa, which has not yet been rescheduled.
Egypt is trying to use Somalia as part of the pressure on Ethiopia, which has built a dam on the Nile River, which is a threat to millions of Egyptians who get their water from Nile river.
During the meeting between Hassan Sheikh and al-Sisi, Egypt said they agreed to condemn the filling of the dam without an agreement, which Villa Somalia later denied.
Recently, the ETV television of the Ethiopian government aired a program that strongly attacked the president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh.
The program was later followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia which issued a statement saying that the program does not represent the policy of the Ethiopian government and is not compatible with the relationship between the two countries.
However, political analysts explained the program as a message sent by Addis-Ababa to Mogadishu, because the Ethiopian government television cannot air a program that the government does not approve.