#416 Ethiopian PM affirms "no plans for invasion over Red Sea ports access"

"We don't know what will happen in the future if Ethiopia's demand for access to the sea isn't resolved peacefully today," he warned.

Ethiopia lost its coastline after Eritrea broke away from Addis Ababa and formally declared independence in 1993 following a three-decade war.

It enjoyed access to a port in Eritrea until the two countries went to war in 1998-2000, and since then has relied largely on Djibouti for imports and exports.

Abiy won a Nobel Prize in 2019 for his rapprochement the previous year with Eritrea, whose troops later backed Ethiopian forces in a two-year war in Tigray.

But relations have appeared strained since the Tigray conflict ended in November 2022.

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