MOGADISHU - Somalia’s president signed a law to invalidate an agreement by the breakaway region of Somaliland to give landlocked Ethiopia access to its Red Sea port of Berbera.
The move raised tensions in the Horn of Africa and prompted the U.S. and African Union to back the territorial integrity of Somalia.
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wrote on X that the passage of the law on Saturday voided the “illegal” pact and illustrated his country’s commitment to safeguard its “unity, sovereignty & territorial integrity.”
There have been protests against the pact in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.
