By ION and agencies
11-2-2012
* DBE to lend to foreign companies : The Development Bank of Ethiopia will use part of the funds collected for the Great Renaissance Dam to make loans to foreign companies.
* USA already looks to post- Meles : Some Ethiopian opponents are convinced that the United States may have already begun to discuss the succession of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
* Flee of Ethiopian soldiers to Somaliland worries Ethiopia: This week the President of Somaliland went to Addis Ababa to take part in negotiations on a bilateral treaty with Ethiopia. The Somaliland Minister for Security, Mohamed Nour Arale and his
colleague from foreign affairs, Mohamed Abdullahi Omer, set out on a mission to Addis Ababa on 27th January, but came home on empty-handed a few days later, on the 30th. During their two days talks with their Ethiopian counterparts, they discussed various issues of security and trade, including the delicate matter of illegal incursions into Somaliland of armed men wearing Ethiopian uniforms. But the Ethiopian authorities categorically refused to sign any kind of bilateral agreement with Hargeisa without the presence in Addis Ababa of Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud known as Silanyo. The two ministers therefore returned to Hargeisa on January 30, to convey this strong Ethiopian message to their President.
colleague from foreign affairs, Mohamed Abdullahi Omer, set out on a mission to Addis Ababa on 27th January, but came home on empty-handed a few days later, on the 30th. During their two days talks with their Ethiopian counterparts, they discussed various issues of security and trade, including the delicate matter of illegal incursions into Somaliland of armed men wearing Ethiopian uniforms. But the Ethiopian authorities categorically refused to sign any kind of bilateral agreement with Hargeisa without the presence in Addis Ababa of Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud known as Silanyo. The two ministers therefore returned to Hargeisa on January 30, to convey this strong Ethiopian message to their President.
A week later, on February 6, Silanyo flew in turn to Addis Ababa where he met Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to discuss the bilateral agreement with him. According to our sources, the Ethiopian dignitary took advantage of Silanyo’s visit to arrange a meeting with Ali Khalif Galaydh, the leader of the new Khatumo Regional State created last month in the area of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn, populated by Dolbahante and which is claimed by both Somaliland and Puntland. A politician born in Las Anod, Galaydh was Prime Minister in Mogadishu from 2000 to 2001.
* Fighting between the Borana and Gabra around Moyale town, on the border with Ethiopia, have forced more than 20,000 people across the border into Ethiopia, resulted in approximately 60 deaths and 57 injured and that 1,000 houses, health facilities, water points and schools have been vandalized or burned, with more than 5,000 families displaced and without access to shelter or basic services.
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