Ethiopia Somalia Border Map

The united states government responded by speeding up deliveries of light arms and pattons already promised. Ethiopia's foreign ministry has apologised after a map of africa on its website incorporated neighbouring somalia within its own borders. Lasting from the late 1940s, when the ethnically somali ogaden region was handed over to ethiopia by the british, into the present day, the tensions culminated in three wars and numerous military clashes alongside the borders.

Peace accord signed, three years later somalia descends into civil war; In 1924, a swath of formerly british kenyan territory, known as jubaland, was ceded to italian somaliland, and. The shared border between ethiopia and somalia stretches over a distance of 1019.04 miles, making it the longest international border in ethiopia.

We sincerely regret any confusion and misunderstanding.

People can freely travel between the countries. The mistake is especially sensitive as ethiopia and somalia have long been rivals and have fought border wars, including the ogaden conflict in the 1970s. The land boundary between ethiopia and sudan extends for 753 km from the tripoint with eritrea in the north to the tripoint with south sudan. There’s no real agreement on where ethiopia ends and where somalia begins.