Egyptian parliamentarian backs Somalia troop deployment, dismisses Ethiopian objections
Egypt’s troop deployment to Somalia is legal — and a spark in an increasingly combustible region
When Cairo announced in late August that Egyptian soldiers would join the African Union’s stabilization mission in Somalia, the move was presented as a routine piece of security cooperation: units trained in Egypt were to be deployed to the central and southern frontlines — Hiiraan, Lower Shabelle and Gedo — to help Somali forces press the fight against al-Shabab.
But beneath the procedural language lies a story about shifting…