Mogadishu (PP Remark) — The go to of the Egyptian Overseas Minister to Mogadishu final week marked the fortieth anniversary of the go to to Somalia by former President of Egypt Mohamed Husni Mubarak in 1984. On the Teatro Nazionale, President Mubarak watched a play in Arabic in regards to the long-standing relations between Egypt and Somalia. A scene of the play featured the go to of Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut to the Land of Punt. The go to was depicted at Deir el-Bahari.
Generations of Somalis grew up studying Akher Saa, Al-Musawar, October, Rose Al Yusef and Al Ahram, amongst different Egyptian publications Some of the outstanding pre-1991 secondary colleges in Mogadishu was named after President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Egyptian lecturers from Al Azhar and different Egyptian universities taught in essentially the most sought-after main and secondary colleges in Somalia.
The launch of the twice-weekly Cairo-Mogadishu flight by EgyptAir final week and the deliberate opening of Banque Misr branches in Somalia point out that post-1991 relations between the 2 international locations have entered a brand new section. Egypt is a real pal of Somalia that doesn’t search to reap the benefits of a rustic that has skilled a traumatic state collapse.
Somalia ought to unequivocally assist the rights of Egypt to learn from Nile River equitably. Such a call will revoke the diplomatic assist given to Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam by the earlier Somali authorities (2017-2022). The place of Somalia on GERD understandably resulted in the expansionist insurance policies of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in an try to annex a Somali coastal district by signing an unlawful maritime Memorandum of Understanding with a secessionist administration in northern Somalia.
The unbreakable bonds between Egypt and Somalia will be sure that the duplicity and destabilising stratagems of Abiy Ahmed is not going to undermine the sovereignty of each international locations and their proper to guard their pursuits in a mutually complementary method.
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