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Somalia: Ethiopian Troops Set Up New Base in Central Region


 

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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

31 January 2008
Posted to the web 31 January 2008

Armed Ethiopian soldiers with carrying weapon trucks have made a new military pedestal at Janta-Kundishe area on the outskirt of Beledweyne town the provincial capital of hiirian region on Wednesday night residents said.

As well the Ethiopian armed forces left there have started to draw out to new locales including Bundo-Aror and Mahjub water course where the Ethiopian troops have recently came under attack by armed groups' links to ousted Islamic courts.

There is also fear among the residents living in those areas which the Ethiopians reached for the reason that Islamist armed groups those have clashed with these forces in the past at that area that may originate a new hostility which may begin yet again.

The residents near to those neighborhoods which the Ethiopian troops arrived are by and large pastoralists, and cultivators those did not have any experience about any fighting bangs earshot.



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