Arch-rival attracting such a diminishing picture of an entity that considered itself way too important for global affairs must be a revelations of a wider matter of the things.
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/51729 ... in-declinehere is an old Arabic proverb that states, “Misfortunes never come singly.” Incidentally, this line probably best describes the seemingly never-ending challenges Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s regime finds itself in.
Egypt’s autocrat had already been embroiled in an economic crisis before 7 October, with foreign debt spiraling out of control and local currency values dropping to unprecedented lows. The war between Israel and Hamas only exacerbated the country’s political and financial woes. Regardless of assurances from the Egyptian authorities that revenue losses could be absorbed, the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are already translating into a sharp reduction in income from shipping transit in the Suez Canal.
Amid this regional instability, alarm bells went off in Cairo, as its officials nervously watched their archrivals in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa secure a strategic win by gaining access to the Red Sea via a deal with the breakaway republic of Somaliland. This coup reveals what observers have long known to be true: Egypt today has remarkably little geopolitical clout. It lacks both the soft and hard power to contain Ethiopia on its own, let alone change the balance of forces in the Horn of Africa.
And why did President SHM of Somalia finally decide to meet the PM of Ethiopia, negating his own words from a few weeks back?
አቶ ኢሳያስ፣ ምንም እንኳ በትጎዳንም፣ ከታሪካዊ ጠላቶቻችን ጋር ብታብርብንም፣ ሄዶ ሄዶ አካላችን ነህ ና ታሳዝናነለህ፣ ተመከር፣ ከዉድቀት መንገድ ተመለስ፣ ላራስህ ስትል። ኢትዮጵያን ማፈን፣ አቅሙም፣ ሆነ ብቃቱን የለህም። ኢትዮጵያ እየተነሳች ያለች የአፍሪካ ቀንድ ነብር ናት፣ ከሷ ጋር ጥል ይቅርብህ!