MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Large protests towards a current deal between Somaliland and Ethiopia, which grants the latter an entry to a leased land alongside the Crimson Sea, befell in a number of cities within the breakaway area of northern Somalia on Sunday.
Protesters chanting slogans, together with “our sea will not be on the market”, took to the streets of the cities of Borama, Burao and Lughaya, days after the deal, which the Somali federal authorities and members of the nation’s political elites referred to as “unlawful”, despatched shockwaves all through the Horn of Africa nation.
Comparable protests befell in Mogadishu and in Al-Shabaab-controlled city of Jilib.
A video circulated on social media, confirmed residents within the city of Lughaya, the place Ethiopia is about to construct a navy based on the phrases of the settlement, taking over arms and vowing to defend their city from a possible Ethiopian invasion. The residents urged different Somalis to assist them in defending the territorial integrity and sovereignty of their nation.
The controversial deal has united the Somali plenty within the north and the south of the nation for the primary time for the reason that collapse of the central authorities of President Mohamed Siyad Barre.
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