They did claim all of British, French and Italian Somaliland too though.
I am more intrested in the consequences of Ethiopia getting the Italian somaliland and how it will effect the horn of africa, rather than the way that they will get it (the Ethiopian resistence can liberate it while british troops land in Aritrea)Haile Selassie asked for both Eritrea and Italian Somaliland after the war, but there was little chance of getting both and he had better justification for the former than the latter. He was lucky to get just Eritrea, which both Britain (on behalf of Egypt) and Italy wanted. In fact, he was lucky the British didn't take the Ogaden, since they had some Somali ambitions of their own.
When?
I am more intrested in the consequences of Ethiopia getting the Italian somaliland and how it will effect the horn of africa, rather than the way that they will get it (the Ethiopian resistence can liberate it while british troops land in Aritrea)
I just say that it is not important for me. the important question is not "how?", the important question is "and than what happen?".If you can't think of any plausible way for it to happen (and I see that you can't) then you should've posted it in ASB.
Before the Italian invasion. All of the Horn of Africa has long been an Ethiopian claim. Of course it's about just as valid as the Mexican claim on Texas, or even less, since Somalia has never actually been a part of Ethiopia. However during the time of Menelik II they claimed quite a lot, and were not happy to have to stop their conquests because they ran into Europeans.When?