Ethiopia and the neighbours : power and conflicts (1855-1899)‎

Abstract EN

This study aims to expose factors behind the state of hostility which dominated the relations between Ethiopia (previously Abyssinia) and its neighbors who share with them the longest border and political frontiers in the area, to the extent that they resorted to war.

The strategic position of the Horn of Africa has always attracted the great powers and each tried to support one country against the other.

However, these kinds of policies and participations reflected obviously the double crossed role that played by the great power in inciting the local and internal conflicts.

Hence in wagged the regional hostilities between the countries of the Horn each other.

The theme of their relationship with those groups of countries of the Horn of Africa, during the regime of the three Ethiopian Monarchies respectively, was not static but changing according to the regional, global circumstances, and to their own political diplomatic interests.

Both the Great Britain, France and Italy, as well as the Turks, the Egyptians and the Mahdist Revolutionary State in the neighboring, directed and affected the mode of conflicts and its conclusions, between the adjacent countries of the Horn, by supporting one country and aided it financially and militarily at one time before shifting its support to the other partner.