Analysis: Egypt's growing military alliance with Mogadishu is causing alarm in Ethiopia, with fears Somalia could become the theatre for a proxy conflict.
![Somali Defence Minister Nur looking at the docked Egyptian naval vessel carrying the 2nd arms delivery to the African nation in a month. [X]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2024-09/Somali%20Defence%20Minister.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=rsRpZcjq)
![A Somali woman gestures after filling water cans tied to a donkey at a traditional cistern for harvesting rainwater, called a berkad, made by the Irish charity Concern-Worldwide as the Horn of Africa faces severe drought in Carro-Yaambo, a village 20 miles west of the capital Hargeisa, Somalia [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2021-11/GettyImages-817537864.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=7bwLXE73)
![A policeman marches holding a Somali flag during a parade in Mogadishu, 11 December 2007. [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2021-08/GettyImages-78381756.jpg?h=ac3016ab&itok=hgGYywy2)
![A woman leans on the wall of a damaged house which was shelled as federal-aligned forces entered the city, in Wukro, north of Mekele, on 1 March 2021. [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2021-07/GettyImages-1231741254.jpg?h=d41cdcab&itok=Y5z14Gpd)
