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 wars in Ogadinia, Oromia and Amara provinces. If Ethiopia has never been able to clean up it's won dirty laundry at home, how is it possible that Ethiopia will remotely be able to dust off internal strife and stabilize Somalia? Ethiopia must leave Somalia, to let the Somalis take care of their own problem, while Ethiopia should attend to it's own internal strife, economic nightmare and ethnic civil wars. As for Kenyans, one hopes they can learn and stay away from centuries of bloody mess of their northern neighbors, Ethiopia and Somalia. In the meantime, Ethiopians need to ask, after 50 years of war against Eritreans, one hopes, Ethiopians has learned bitter lessons already. What's there, more to gain for Ethiopia from waging another 50 years of war against Eritrea or Somalia? If the Ethiopian government continues on insisting in waging wars in Eritrea, Somalia and against it's internal enemies in Ogadinia, Oromia, and Amara provinces, the war could back fire and break Ethiopia apart just like Yugoslavia. Therefore, the Ethiopian lynch-pin "politicians" need to be careful on what they pray for, because, they might as well, get it, bringing more misery to Ethiopia than what Ethiopia has been going through for the last "3000" years, as Ethiopians claim. Gerrie Lijam, San Jose, Ca. USA