Ethiopia's naval ambition

[SomaliWadaniSoldier]

Landlocked Ethiopia is planning to build a navy, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said during a briefing of the heads of the country’s National Defense Force.

“Following the efforts made to build capacity of our national defense, we built one of the stronger ground and air forces in Africa,” the ruling party-funded Fana Broadcasting Corp. reported Abiy as saying on Friday. “We should build our naval force capacity in the future.”

Two calls to the mobile phone of Abiy’s national security adviser, Abadula Gemada, didn’t connect.

Ethiopia currently has a civilian Ethiopian Maritime Training Institute on Lake Tana. It trains more than 500 marine engineers and electro-technical officers each year and plans to increase this to more than 1,000 officers annually, according to its website.
Abiy’s government in May agreed to develop Port Sudan on the Red Sea and agreed with Djibouti to swap shares in state-owned ports, airlines, and telecommunications. It also agreed to acquire land at Kenya’s Lamu Port for “logistical facilitation,” according to a joint communiqué issued after a meeting between Abiy and Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta.

Earlier this year, Ethiopia took a stake in a port in Somaliland, a semi-autonomous part of Somalia that aspires to statehood and borders Djibouti. Somaliland will host a naval base for the United Arab Emirates






We wuz independent
These jeeganlanders are dumber than i though.

 

[waraabe]

Kkkk Ethiopia has no army or navy in Somaliland but they have armed forces in Somalia lol

 

[SomaliWadaniSoldier]

Kkkk Ethiopia has no army or navy in Somaliland but they have armed forces in Somalia lol

They annexed u without need to fire one shot kkkk
U already spread ur legs for Ethiopia kkkkk


In the south xabashis are killed like rats looool

 

[waraabe]

They annexed u without need to fire one shot kkkk
U already spread ur legs for Ethiopia kkkkk


In the south xabashis are killed like rats looool

Lool do you really wants to talk about who spreads their legs for Ethiopia literally?

- their armies are empregnating your women and you are talking to me about non extant BS.


Their navy will go were their army is and that is somalia, they are busing nuts in gedo

 

[SomaliWadaniSoldier]

Say that again? Kkkk
U part of Ethiopia now

 

[waraabe]

Say that again? Kkkk
U part of Ethiopia now

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.voanews.com/amp/4095621.html


Tell me sxb are your little nephews from gedo and jubbaland half kikuyu or half amxaaro?

It makes sense for xabashis to protect their kids in Somalia using their navy

 

[SomaliWadaniSoldier]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.voanews.com/amp/4095621.html


Tell me sxb are your little nephews from gedo and jubbaland half kikuyu or half amxaaro?

It makes sense for xabashis to protect their kids in Somalia using their navy

That makes no sense.
Cuz xabashis got 19% share and they already own snmland.

U are the classical marqaanist. Ignoring reality.
In the south xabashis fear for their lives. They know they are not welcome there.

In the north the two feminine clans mj and isaaq loves xabashis.

 

[Weydamal]

This is a better headline. The idiot in the other thread was trying to foist this on the non Jeegaan part of Somalia.

 

[Cumar]

Mentions Djibouti, Kenya and Sudan in the same article if you bothered to read it.

 

[Farm]

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia and France agreed their first military cooperation accord on Tuesday, a deal that includes helping the landlocked nation build a navy, as Paris seeks to boost economic ties in Africa's second-most populous country.

On a four-day visit to the Horn of Africa, President Emmanuel Macron is looking to break from France's colonial history on the continent and nurture relationships in a region where it has lagged behind in recent years.

Macron wants to leverage a mixture of Paris' soft power in culture and education and its military know-how to give it a foothold at a time when Ethiopia is opening up.

"This unprecedented defense cooperation agreement provides a framework... and notably opens the way for France to assist in establishing an Ethiopian naval component," Macron told a news conference alongside Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

The accord also provides for air cooperation, joint operations and opportunities for training and equipment purchases.

Abiy, who took over as premier in April last year, has presided over major political and economic changes that have included the pardoning of exiled rebel groups and reconciliation with longtime neighboring foe Eritrea.

The country disbanded its navy in 1991 after its then-province Eritrea, which is on the Red Sea, seceded following a three-decade war for independence.

"We are here in a friendly country where we want to strengthen and build a new page in our common history," Macron said. "Since you became prime minister our vision (of Ethiopia) has profoundly changed."

He and Abiy also agreed deals to develop Ethiopia's cultural heritage, including preserving churches and opening an archaeological dig at a 12th century village. Paris will provide 100 million euros to help the country's economic transition.

Macron was accompanied by a delegation of businessmen, including the chief executive of telecommunications group Orange, Stephane Richard, who is looking to position the company ahead of Ethiopia's privatisation of the sector.

Shipper CMA-CGM and family-owned agri-food group Soufflet are among firms signing deals on Wednesday. A 50-strong French business delegation is due in Addis on Friday.

France's history in Ethiopia dates back to the start of the 20th century. Its largest embassy compound in the world by size - 43 hectares (106 acres) - was given to it by Emperor Menelik II in 1907. In 1917 it built the rail link between former colony Djibouti and Addis. But these days its influence and business deals fail to rival the likes of China.

"The railway between Djibouti and France is 100 years old and the work that we now want to complete with President Macron is for the long-term. Perhaps in 100 years we'll talk about it again," Abiy said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...navy-deal-turn-new-page-in-ties-idUSKBN1QT2W3

 

[SomaliWadaniSoldier]

Building navy to protect their interests in Kilika Lixaad Somaliland from the hostile Somalia makes sense.

 

[Spin Doctor]

https://igad.int/attachments/article/2057/Final Communique of the 46th Ordinary Session of IGAD Council of Ministers.pdf
The foreign minister for SFG recently signed this communique. Read columns 9 and 10.

We've outsourced our interior security to AMISOM might as well have the Ethiopian navy protect our territorial waters. Next is the Indian ocean. Thoughts? @AarLibaax

 

[Crow]

Get a load of this cuckery.

 

[.279]

Get a load of this cuckery.
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Where did it go? Lol

Alhamdullilah if they want that for themselves, the title had me sweating

 

[angelplan]

If Ethiopia builds a Navy, its game over for somalis and an epic checkmate to inglorious somali arrogance. ETHIOPIA already violates somali airspace and they dont even pay shit. Ive seen huge ethiopian ships on somali people's djiboutian main port.

why have somalis failed this terribly in life? why we happy under others rule but we refuse a fellow somali brothers rule and kill each other? why…. why….



Ethiopia is basically fronting at the moment. No need for a navy except cornering somalis. We somalis we toast awoowo. Ethiopia is where Somalia would have been if we played our cards right. But instead we resorted to killing each other.

May Turkey save us all.

 

[Nuur Iidaan]

May Turkey save us all.

Boowe fiiri, Sheekadii ma halkaas ayay gaaday?

 

[Ras]

Can't the Ethiopians build a navy by themselves?

Why do they need to sell off their telecom industry and arable land?

Anyways not too bothered.

Once we get our country back we'll always have a naval advantage over them.

Their stuck with just Djibouti since Eritrea won't let them built a navy base.

All we need to do is blockade their tiny base and all the money they spent on their navy would be wasted.

In the meantime hopefully they don't use their navy to bolster Al Shabaab and pirates in order to continue destabilizing Somalia.

The French should stick to West Africa.

This is Somalia's backyard and you'll end up losing all your investments here.

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

 

[Nuur Iidaan]

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What does the light green bit mean???

 

[kickz]

Navy? For what?

They are landlocked..