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Tuesday
Mar082011

Ethiopia and Somaliland seek EU funding for increased economic integration 

DateTuesday, March 8, 2011 at 09:37PM

http://somalilandpress.com/ethiopia-and-somaliland-seek-eu-funds-for-berbera-corridor-20670

Ethiopia is hoping to renovate the road that links it to Somaliland's port of Berbera and it wants EU funding to do so.

Ethiopia is a landlocked country and currently suffers from an overdependence on a single port, the port of Djibouti (located in the country of Djibouti). Unlike Somaliland, Djibouti is an authoritarian state and, as a result, Ethiopian access to the port of Djibouti is constantly jeapardized by political unrest.

Thus Ethiopia has a lot to gain by increasing the amount of exports and imports flowing through its democratic neighbor, Somaliland.




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