Somalia Rejects Hosting Egypt-Ethiopia Proxy Conflict, President Declares
Somalia as a Stage: Can Mogadishu Keep Egypt and Ethiopia from Turning It Into Another Front?
When Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told the BBC Somali Service this week that his country “will not be a host to proxy wars” between Egypt and Ethiopia, he was addressing more than a regional spat over Nile water and peacekeepers. He was speaking to a fragile nation that has long been a canvas for others’ ambitions — and to a neighbourhood where resource rivalries are increasingly exported as power politics.
Mohamud’s…