Tensions Rise In Horn Of Africa
Rising tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia have stoked fears of greater instability in the Horn of Africa. Somalia said on Thursday it was expelling Ethiopia’s ambassador, closing two Ethiopian consulates (in Hargeisa, the largest city and capital of Somaliland, and Garowe, the capital city of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland) and recalling its own ambassador to Addis Ababa amid a dispute over Ethiopia’s plan to build a naval base in the breakaway region of Somaliland.