After a year of tension, Somalia and Ethiopia agree to work together

Abiy Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud at the Villa Somalia Presidential Palace in Mogadishu on February 27, 2025.

Photo credit: Villa Somalia

Somalia and Ethiopia have vowed cooperation, seemingly putting a year of tensions behind them.

The declaration came on Thursday as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed made his first official visit to Mogadishu in more than a year, in a bid to end the animosity between the two sides, which have been at loggerheads in both public and private.