The landlocked African nation and its neighbor, Somalia, have been at odds since January over a coastline lease deal Ethiopia has an “unwavering interest” in gaining access to the Red Sea and aims to pursue this objective through “peaceful means,” the East African nation’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has said. Abiy’s comment on Thursday comes as relations between his country and neighboring Somalia have deteriorated over an agreement Addis Ababa signed with breakaway Somaliland to lease its