Ethiopia defense minister visits Somalia in sign of detente

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NAIROBI: Ethiopia’s defense minister traveled to Somalia on Thursday, a senior official in Mogadishu said, the first bilateral visit since relations nosedived a year ago over an Ethiopian plan to build a naval base in a breakaway Somali region.

Somalia’s state minister for foreign affairs, Ali Omar, confirmed Ethiopian Defense Minister Aisha Mohammed Mussa’s visit in a message to Reuters but did not say what she was there to discuss. Ethiopia’s government spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.



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