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Africa Horn
Somalia and Ethiopia to be united, says Somali minister
2007-01-03
(SomaliNet) Hussein Mohamed Aideed, the interior minister of the transitional federal government has said on Tuesday the government wants that Somalia and Ethiopia share a single passport and wipe out the boundary between the countries – citing the unity of European countries as one nation and share one currency.

Mr. Aideed who met today with clan and traditional elders in the former presidential palace in the Somalia capital Mogadishu said since Somalis and Ethiopians are brothers and both countries share 2000 km long border my government would suggest to use a single passport in the two countries and unified security forces because there is blood relations between both communities in Somalia and Ethiopia. “There are thousands of Somali refugees living in Ethiopian and hold Ethiopian passports who can travel everywhere in the world,” Mr. Aideed said.

Hussein Aideed said 60% the Somali refugees are in Ethiopia the rest being in Minnesota and argued that nothing can prevent us from joining hands with Ethiopia since they came to help us from thousands miles away. The interior minister asked the elders to welcome the Ethiopian forces helping the government for restoring peace and stability. He said the Ethiopians should be seen as friends but not as enemy. “Ethiopia is the only country which supported Somalia out of the problem,” he said.
The EU sure wasn't helpful. And he prob'ly doesn't know/can't talk about the aid from the U.S.
December 10, 2006, some members of the transitional parliament in Somalia put on view publicly a map which they said secretly stolen from the office of Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi in Baidoa. The map shows all countries in African continent with Ethiopia annexing Somalia. But the premier Gedi denied the allegation as false paper.
"Lies! All lies!"
Posted by:Fred

#10  #5 Soviet Union did a good job of "keeping their own slammers in line". Once it was gone, they came back in all slammer glory. Which shows that keeping "slammers in line" is just passing the problem to your children.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-01-03 23:34  

#9  With the existing agreements with both Djibouti and Somaliland, the Ethiopians may lack ports of their own but they do have assured access to others' ports.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2007-01-03 18:04  

#8  The good side would be that Ethiopia would be "less" landlocked.
Posted by: SwissTex   2007-01-03 14:05  

#7  Love at first invasion. How sweet.
Posted by: mojo   2007-01-03 13:58  

#6  The great thing here is that it's an African problem resolved by Africans.
The hidden bad thing is that the Christians in Ethiopia will become targets to be overwhelmed by birth rates, rapes, murders, and IEDs as the jihadis march into eternity.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-01-03 13:32  

#5  Do you have any reason to believe that Somalis in Ethiopia will be any different?

Sure do. Ethiopians are not Americans, and as such, probably not as infected/afflicted with PC BS, or multi-culti BS. The Ethiopians would most likely thump the snot out of any slammers that stepped out of line, they seem to do a pretty good job of keeping their own slammers in line.
Posted by: Chuck Darwin   2007-01-03 09:46  

#4  Could be good, or bad. Good: Could bring order and peace to an area long in anarchy.
Bad: Could inflame tribal tensions and lead to more civil war and anarchy.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-01-03 09:42  

#3  Are you happy with Somalis in USA?
Do you have any reason to believe that Somalis in Ethiopia will be any different?
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-01-03 09:32  

#2  Maybe stupid, maybe smart. If it doesn't cost them much $$$ they could come out of this with a lot of regional juche, power that is. They could, given the state of the rest of the horn, become the uncontested big boy in that part of the world. And that wouldn't be so bad to have the second oldest Christian nation in the world take the reigns in that region.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-01-03 08:20  

#1  If true, major stupid for Ethiopians.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-01-03 02:58  

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