Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is expected to hold talks Saturday with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, a Somali diplomat said.
"They will discuss a military front against the Al-Shabaab militant group and bilateral issues," the diplomat told Anadolu Agency, requesting anonymity.
Mohamud arrived in Addis Ababa on Friday for talks with Ethiopian officials and visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Somalia has remained in the grip of on-again, off-again violence since the outbreak of civil war in 1991.
The country recently appeared to inch closer to stability with the installation of a new government and the intervention of African Union troops tasked with bringing Al-Shabaab to heel.
Somalia and Ethiopia signed a defense agreement earlier this year.
Ethiopia sent troops into Somalia in 2006 to drive out the Islamic Courts Union, which ruled the Horn of Africa country.
Addis Ababa sent forces again into Somalia to join African peacekeepers to support the central government against the militant Al-Shabaab group.
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