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October 24, 2006
Ethiopia: State of War With Somalia Recognized
Jihad advances in the horn of Africa: Ethiopia 'at war' with Somalia's Islamists
Ethiopia is 'technically at war' with Islamic forces in Somalia and has become a target for terrorism, the prime minister said yesterday.Hard-line clerics of the Islamic Courts Union who now hold sway over Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, and several key towns in the south of the country have declared holy war against Ethiopia.
They accuse their majority Christian neighbour of sending thousands of soldiers over their shared border to prop up the weak transitional government, which stands as the only counterpoint to the fundamentalists' power.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at October 24, 2006 9:54 PM
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