Category: Ethiopian soldiers

Ethiopia risks diplomatic row after its soldiers enter Kenya and kill local police officers

Mail & Guardian NAIROBI will seek an explanation from Addis Ababa after Ethiopian soldiers killed three Kenyan police officers in foreign territory, Kenyan media reported Sunday. Kenyan security forces including the army have since been deployed to the border following the Friday incursion, the Sunday Nation, the country’s largest circulating, reported. The Ethiopian soldiers are

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Some Ethiopian troops in Somalia not under AU mission

By ABDULKADIR KHALIF, AFRICA REVIEW Correspondent in Mogadishu Ethiopian troops patrol at the entrance of an abandoned building in Baidoa, Somalia. An Amisom Sector four commander indicated that some Ethiopian troops receive orders from Addis Ababa and do not operate under Amisom. PHOTO | FILE |  AFP Some of the Ethiopian soldiers operating in Central

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Berhanu Nega: Eritrea’s cannon fodder or Ethiopia’s big hope?

By Teshome M. Borago Many Ethiopians had diverse reaction to the latest news that Dr Berhanu Nega has gone to Eritrea to lead the armed struggle against the Ethiopian regime. I first met Dr. Berhanu Nega in New York city in 2007. After his release from prison in Ethiopia, he came to a research college

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Ethiopian troops lead big new AU offensive against Al-Shabaab in Somalia; heavy fighting raging

AFP – Last month’s al-Shabaab assault on a AMISOM base left dozens of Burundian soldiers dead in one of the deadliest incidents in eight years ago. AFRICAN Union troops said Sunday they had launched a new offensive against Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab rebels in southern Somalia, vowing to flush the insurgents out of rural areas. The African

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3,000 Ethiopia troops cross into Somalia

By ABDULKADIR KHALIF A large contingent of Ethiopian troops has crossed into Somalia, reports from Gedo region indicated Wednesday. Eyewitnesses in Dolo town, 450 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, told the media that the troops proceeded to Luq, about 100 kilometres away. “A force about 3,000-strong armed with heavy weaponry crossed the border into Somalia and

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African Union troops retreat in Somalia as Shebab attack

Mogadishu (AFP) – African Union troops fighting Somalia’s Shebab insurgents have pulled back from several key towns following a series of attacks by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters, local officials said Friday. The withdrawal, a rare retreat after AU troops seized swathes of territory from the radical Islamists, includes the towns of Qoryoley and Awdhegele, which have

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UN honours Ethiopian peacekeepers

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle ADDIS ABABA– The United Nations has honoured Ethiopia for its significant contributions to UN’s vast Peacekeeping operations, the Ethiopian ministry of foreign affairs said on Friday. At a ceremony held at UN headquarters in New York to mark International Day of UN Peacekeepers, the United Nations has awarded Ethiopia a medal in

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US drone ‘kills al-Shabab leader’

(BBC) Al-Shabab militants have been driven out of the group’s strongholds in Somalia The US defence department has confirmed that it has killed an al-Shabab leader, Adan Garar. The Pentagon says the militant was hit by a drone equipped with Hellfire missiles in southern Somalia last Friday. Garar was a suspect in the 2013 Westgate

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Ethiopia to deploy more troops in Somalia & South Sudan

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia on Thursday announced it will send more peacekeepers to Somalia, South Sudan and to Abyei, a disputed region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan. According to the Ethiopian International Peace-keeping Training Centre, the horn of Africa’s nation will deploy 600 additional peace keepers in the stated countries

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