Foreign Relations of Somalia - Disputes

Disputes

Somalia's only major international dispute is with Ethiopia over the Ogaden. Most of the southern half of the boundary is a Provisional Administrative Line.

A goal of Somali nationalism (Pan-Somalism) is to unite the predominantly Somali-inhabited territories in the Horn of Africa into a pan-Somali Greater Somalia (Soomaaliweyn). Historically, this issue has been a major cause of conflict between Somalia and some of its neighbors. Like the Siad Barre regime and every Somali administration before it, the Islamic Courts Union and its successor Islamist groups are also proponents of Greater Somalia.