The military campaign is in response to an ambush on Ethiopian troops and last week’s Nairobi hotel attack BY ASSOCIATED PRESS The Ethiopian National Defense Force on Saturday confirmed an ambush by al-Shabab extremists on an Ethiopian peacekeeping convoy in neighboring Somalia and said Ethiopian forces are preparing a “massive offensive” in response.
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BY MAGGIE FICK | REUTERS Somalia should accelerate reforms of its army, its main foreign backers said on Wednesday after discussing slow progress in transforming the graft-ridden force into one capable of fighting al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants.
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BY RISDEL KSASIRA | THE MONITOR The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen David Muhoozi, has said Ugandan soldiers deployed in Somalia to fight the al-Shabaab are stranded due to underfunding, logistical deficits and a challenged Somali national force.
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Has Eritrea Been Unfairly Sanctioned by the U.S. and UK (Others)? BY CONOR GAFFEY | NEWSWEEK For the past eight years, Eritrea has been under a comprehensive arms embargo and tough sanctions on political leaders. The sanctions were imposed in 2009 by the United Nations Security Council after it found that Eritrea had “provided support to armed […]
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The finding of the UN panel that it has, for its 4th consecutive mandate, not found any conclusive evidence of support provided by Eritrea to Al-Shabaab, is reason enough to make the panel’s proposed visit to Eritrea irrelevant. BY SALEM SOLOMON | VOA NEWS After years of inquiry, the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia and […]
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The deadliest terrorist attack in over a decade just occurred in Somalia. What happen to our solidarity hashtag? Where is the empathy for Somalia? BY FIKREJESUS AMHAZION (PhD) Last week, in the heart of Mogadishu, one of the most devastating terrorist attacks anywhere in the world for many years took place. The death toll from […]
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Death toll from truck bomb blast rises to 189, making it the country’s deadliest single blast ever. BY AL JAZEERA NEWS The death toll of Saturday’s explosion in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu has increased to at least 189 people, an official from the city’s ambulance service told Al Jazeera. Another 200 people were wounded in the blast, […]
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A blow to the Farmaajo-Khayre government BY MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | VOA NEWS Somalia’s defense minister and the country’s military chief, who were leading the fight against Islamist militants, have both resigned from the government, officials said Thursday. Speaking to VOA Somali, Information Minister Abdurahman Omar Osman said the defense minister, Abdirashid Abdullahi Mohamed, and […]
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