🇪🇬🇸🇩🇪🇷🇸🇴⚔️🇪🇹 Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, invited the presidents of Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia to a summit in New Alamein, to discuss "consultation and coordination on regional issues of mutual concern”.

All 4 countries have, for different reasons, bones to pick with Ethiopia. Egyptian-Ethiopian issues soured over the last decade over the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which Egyptian officials feared would reduce the water volume of the Nile River and threaten the livelihoods of the 100 million Egyptians.

Egypt has stationed troops in Somalia to the anger of Ethiopia and in 2024 signed a defense pact with Mogadishu and earlier this year, Cairo increased its participation in the African Union's Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).

Sudan shares Egypt's concerns over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam affecting the water volume of the Nile River but a more pressing issue for Khartoum is the Ethiopian involvement in the Sudanese Civil War on the side of the Rapid Support Forces. In 2020-2021, Sudan and Ethiopia fought a small-scale war over the Al-Fashaga District and due to the ongoing Tigray War, Sudan came out victorious.

Eritrea feels threatened by Ethiopia's desire to gain a port and access to the global ocean while Somalia has a century old dispute with Ethiopia over the ethnically Somali region of Ogaden that was annexed by the Ethiopian Empire in the latter half of the 19th century with multiple wars fought between Ethiopia and Somalia since the 1960s over it.

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