MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Kenyan President William Ruto introduced on Saturday that he’ll quickly convene a gathering with the leaders of Ethiopia, Somalia, and Uganda to deal with the escalating tensions within the Horn of Africa, a area grappling with continual instability and profound safety challenges that proceed to undermine its socio-economic improvement.
Ruto made the assertion in the course of the twenty fourth East African Group heads of state summit in Arusha, Tanzania, though he didn’t specify a date for the assembly. The deliberate summit will mark the primary in-person dialogue between Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed since tensions flared over a land lease alongside the Purple Sea that the break-away area of Somaliland granted to Ethiopia.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had beforehand rejected direct talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, together with his authorities insisting that it will not have interaction with Addis Ababa till it withdrew its contentious memorandum of understanding with Somaliland. Nevertheless, Somalia later participated in two rounds of unsuccessful negotiations mediated by Turkey in Ankara.
It stays unsure whether or not the assembly introduced by Kenyan President Ruto will yield a distinct end result and pave the way in which for resolving the almost year-long diplomatic standoff between Ethiopia and Somalia.
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