14 November 2007
Nairobi — Kenya and Ethiopia have agreed to flush out Oromo Liberation Front insurgents on their common border.
The deal was hammered out during a security meeting held at Hidi Lola Town in Ethiopia.
The rebels have been sneaking into Kenya across the porous boundary.
The Kenyan delegation was led by the Moyale district commissioner, Mr Victor Okioma, while the Ethiopian team was led by Region Four provincial commissioner Abdulkadir Abdi Nura.
Mr Okioma said that the rebels destabilised security on the border and that Kenya had resolved to smoke them out of their hideouts.
He expressed satisfaction that communities living on the border were willing to provide information on the rebels to the authorities.
Mr Okioma said the meeting also assessed achievements by border security committees.
He noted that a conflict between the Borana and Gabra communities had been contained, and highway robbery stemmed across the boundary.
Mr Nura said they had granted amnesty to insurgents who surrendered themselves to Ethiopian authorities.
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Dear Editor, And now Kenyans are joining in the Ethiopian made internal strife and ethnic civil war and bloody mess or Eritrean and Somalian debacle. Little did the Kenyans know, there are more Oromos in Kenya than there are in Ethiopia therefore, creating another Kenyan-Oromo war. I say be careful what you pray for because you might get it. After all, due to 50 years of war with Eritrea and Somalia, Ethiopia has been in huge mess with it's own constant economic nightmares, persistent famines, uncontrolled AIDS, TB and other public health scrooge, internal political strife and ethnic civil… [Read Full Text]