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Somalia: Civilians Shelled As Ethiopia Foreign Minister Visits Country
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Garowe Online (Garowe)
29 March 2008
Posted to the web 31 March 2008
Mogadishu
Government troops shelled a crowded market in the Somali capital on Saturday after suspected insurgents launched mortars at the presidential palace, where Ethiopia's foreign affairs minister met with the Somali president.
At least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded after several shells landed inside Mogadishu's main Bakara market, witnesses reported.
Five mortars slammed in and around Villa Somalia, the presidential compound where interim President Abdullahi Yusuf met privately with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin.
Islamist guerrillas claimed responsiblity for the mortars on a Web site posting.
There has been no official statement regarding Mr. Mesfin's unannounced trip to Mogadishu, but government sources said the Ethiopian Foreign Minister' s discussions with President Yusuf centered around security and the reconciliation process.
The Ethiopian government deployed its army into Somalia to save Yusuf's weak interim government from collapse, but the Somali government and its foreign military backers have faced a bloody insurgency since.
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Thousands of civilians have been killed during the insurgency, which has displaced 1 million people from their homes, according to the United Nations.
Once again, false prophets of American "democracy" are betraying & bleeding Somalis, Ethiopians and Eritreans. Dear Editor, If the American false prophets have the agenda of using Ethiopian dictators to bleed Africans in the name of "Western Democracy", as the Africans would like them to believe, American politician are going to be in major surprise to realize that Africans know "wolves in sheep skin". American politicians are entitled to sell their soul to the lowest bidder and leak the boots of Ethiopian dictators, in the service of American agenda of bleeding African by Africans. But... [Read Full Text]
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Ethiopia claims arresting suspects in China oil field attack: report
Sun Mar 30, 6:43 PM ET
Ethiopia said on Sunday its security forces had arrested eight men suspected of involvement in last year's deadly raid on a Chinese oil venture, state media reported.
The Ethiopian News Agency said the detainees were members of Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a separatist group fighting for the independence of ethnic Somalis in Ogaden.
Police said the suspects were linked to the April 2007 attack that killed 74 people, including nine Chinese oil workers, the report said.
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