WI: Ethiopia doesn't receive Eritrea after WW2?

Cost of building and maintaining a railroad and road line.The cost of training people to repair,maintain, and operate.There also a matter of economic viability as it would more expensive to ship to through places such as Kenya and Ethiopia can not afford the cost of subsidizing everything being sent through.
Hmmm, true - do you think Kenya would assist Ethiopia in a war against Somalia ITTL?
 
Hmmm, true - do you think Kenya would assist Ethiopia in a war against Somalia ITTL?
Not sure, If not communist or left-wing It certainly would help and might even join. If it's communist I'm not sure Kenya was extremely hostile to communism but at the same time it can't allow Somali Nationalism to increase.
 
Not sure, If not communist or left-wing It certainly would help and might even join. If it's communist I'm not sure Kenya was extremely hostile to communism but at the same time it can't allow Somali Nationalism to increase.
What do you think Kenya would contribute? A second Front that allows for Somali troops and material to be sent to the Kenyan frontier to hold against Kenyan forces?
 
After reading through some of my sources, I may have found a way in which Ethiopia doesn't receive Eritrea after World War 2 - have Ethiopia become more supportive of Israel which might see the Arab and Muslim states surrounding her providing more opposition to Ethiopia's annexation of Eritrea and see more UN members vote in favor of Eritrean independence.
 
After reading through some of my sources, I may have found a way in which Ethiopia doesn't receive Eritrea after World War 2 - have Ethiopia become more supportive of Israel which might see the Arab and Muslim states surrounding her providing more opposition to Ethiopia's annexation of Eritrea and see more UN members vote in favor of Eritrean independence.
They don't have the numbers
 
Theoretically, let's say that Eritrea does somehow become independent and Ethiopia remains landlocked. How would this affect Ethiopian modernization?
 
Eritrea will be richer and will probably be a Parliamentary Democracy.


Ethiopia will demand sea access somehow. One option might be the port of Zeila in the westernmost section of British Somaliland. Another option may be Ethiopia getting Italian Somaliland.

Actually, I believe, that, Ethiopia would have gotten Assab and the sorrounding area in the southeastern tip of Eritrea.
 
Actually, I believe, that, Ethiopia would have gotten Assab and the sorrounding area in the southeastern tip of Eritrea.

Post-WW2, the idea was put forward that Ethiopia would exchange the Haud Region (a triangle of land south of British Somaliland where many British Somalilanders brought their animals to pasture) to Britain in exchange for the port of Zeila. The US put a nix to the idea.
 
Post-WW2, the idea was put forward that Ethiopia would exchange the Haud Region (a triangle of land south of British Somaliland where many British Somalilanders brought their animals to pasture) to Britain in exchange for the port of Zeila. The US put a nix to the idea.

Why were the US against the idea?
 
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