Somalia-Egypt Military Alliance Threatens Ethiopia

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Why Ethiopia is so alarmed by an Egypt-Somalia alliance

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Tensions ratcheted up this week with the arrival of two Egyptian C-130 military planes in Mogadishu .

The plan is for up to 5,000 Egyptian soldiers to join a new-look African Union force.

Ethiopia has been a key ally of Somalia in its fight against al-Qaeda -linked militants.

It is at loggerheads with Egypt over a mega dam it built on the River Nile .

Ethiopia lost its access to the sea when Eritrea seceded in the early 1990s .

Egypt sees its military deal with Somalia as “historic” - in the words of Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi - and a possible chance to settle scores over the mega dam.

For Ethiopia the dam is seen as a way of revolutionising the country by producing electricity for 60% of the population.

The latest diplomatic efforts to work out how the dam should operate fell apart last December .

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