Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has said there is no reason for Ethiopian and Egyptian troops deployed to maintain peace in his country to clash, saying there will be no "proxy war."

The president said in an interview with BBC Focus on Africa television that there will be no war between the two countries "on Somali soil" and that Somalia will not allow this.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud also said in the same interview that there is no possibility of Ethiopia and Egypt getting into a conflict in Somalia.

The president said that if the two countries want to get into a conflict, they can fight on their own, "but since the two countries' armies are not close to each other in Somalia, there is no chance of a conflict."

The president, who stated that there is a distance of hundreds of kilometers between Egyptian and Ethiopian troops, said, "I see no reason why Egypt wants to disturb Ethiopia.

I also see no reason why Ethiopia wants to disturb the Egyptian peacekeeping forces in Somalia."