Posts Tagged ‘al-shabab’

Somalia : Ethiopian Troops Captured City of Beledweyne from Al-Shabab Fighters

January 2 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, News, Somalia Tags: , , , , ,

Ethiopian forces have captured the central Somali town of Beledweyne from al-Shabab Islamist militants. Al-Shabab said its forces were surrounding the town after making what it called a planned withdrawal. Eyewitnesses said armoured vehicles and heavy artillery were used in the attack, which Ethiopia said was made at the request of the Somali government. Somalia’s prime minister meanwhile announced an operation “to liberate... Read more

U.S. Flying Spy Drones From Arba Minch airport into Somalia

October 29 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Ethiopia, News, Politics, Uncategorized, United States Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

U.S. officials have acknowledged they are sending drone aircraft from Ethiopia to conduct surveillance in Somalia, but say it has nothing to do with Kenya’s ongoing military operation there. Kenya has vowed to continue fighting until it has curtailed the activities of the Somali militant group al-Shabab. U.S. military officials say they have begun launching drone aircraft over Somalia from a... Read more

U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Ethiopia and Djibouti

September 21 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Ethiopia, News, Somalia, Uncategorized, United States Tags: , , , , , ,

The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said. One of the installations is being established in Ethi­o­pia, a U.S. ally in the fight against... Read more

The Looming Danger That Africa & International Community Needs to Confront Wisely

August 16 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Blog, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , ,

Article by Omer Hussein Dualeh The situation in the Horn of Africa is basically of that of famine and unprecedented drought affecting many countries, but when this catastrophe eases, and the Shabaab leaves the operating theater, there is another danger that I foresee coming without any doubt, unless the International Community addresses it wisely. Somaliland celebrated 20th anniversary of its reclamation of its Statehood in May,... Read more

Money raised from Eritrean-Americans helped finance militants in East Africa : UN

August 10 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Politics, Uncategorized, United States Tags: , , , , , , ,

Matt O’Brien OAKLAND — Armed rebels in the famine-ravaged Horn of Africa are being partially bankrolled by money from immigrants in the Bay Area, according to a United Nations report. The East African nation of Eritrea finances militants across the region with the help of money funneled from Eritrean-Americans, who are pressured by the government to send a percentage of their incomes... Read more

PetroTrans May Face Attack in Ethiopia Oil Search, Group Says

August 9 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Petrotrans Co., a Chinese oil exploration company, may face attack in Ethiopia’s restive Ogaden region if it begins operations in the area, a U.S.-based advocacy group said. “We urge all foreign oil companies, especially the Chinese oil and gas company PetroTrans, to refrain from undertaking any oil exploration missions in Ogaden,” the Resolve Ogaden Coalition said in an e-mailed statement today. Ethiopia’s... Read more

Eritrea : We are not the “Bad boy”

August 9 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , ,

Three events in quick succession have forced Eritrea to go on the defensive with its envoy in Nairobi declaring , “we have never been the bad boy”. Despite the firm declaration of innocence by Asmara, the recent report by the UN Security Monitoring Group and assertions by leaders of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) provided ammunition for warring Eritrea and... Read more

The bad boy of the Horn of Africa: How Eritrea’s strongman uses Kenya as a terror finance hub

August 9 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, News, People, Politics, Somalia, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

In early July, as Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki headed to Addis Ababa to chair a meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), a six-country partnership formed to address issues of drought, security and development in the Horn of Africa, he sounded a stern warning to Eritrea. For Kibaki, a president who is not known for his love of dramatic public... Read more

Eritrea planned massive bomb attack on African Union summit, UN says

July 28 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Crime, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

‘Baghdad-style’ car bomb attack planned in Addis Ababa, capital of neighbour and foe Ethiopia, which hosted 30 heads of state in January Eritrea planned a massive attack on an African Union summit in Ethiopia in January this year that was designed to “make Addis Ababa like Baghdad”, according to a new UN report. At the time, Ethiopia claimed it had foiled the... Read more

Uganda ‘suicide bombers’ images released

July 19 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized, World, World Cup 2010 Tags: , , , , ,

Images of two men police believe carried out deadly bombings in Uganda a week ago have been released. Interpol is circulating reconstructions of what the two might have looked like. Police found two unidentified heads in the wake of the Kampala bombings that killed at least 73 people, and believe the pair were suicide attackers. At least 73 people... Read more

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