Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Ethiopia signed a peace deal on Tuesday to end 20 years of war with a rebel faction that has comprised the main threat to foreign oil and gas firms in the disputed Ogaden region, both sides said.
Abay Tsehaye, national security adviser to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, welcomed the signing of the deal as something that would strengthen unity in the Horn of Africa country.
But the spokesman for a rival wing in the fractious Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) run by former Somali navy chief Admiral Mohamed Omar Osman called the deal “irrelevant”, raising questions about its breadth and staying power.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Somali militants accused the nation’s transitional government of “baseless propaganda” after officials said the rebel group is on the verge of splitting up.
Government forces have seized more areas in the capital of Mogadishu with the help of African Union troops, officials said in a statement.
“These gains come amidst reports that the al-Shabaab’s second in command has withdrawn his forces from the city as rifts within the extremist group deepen in the wake of the failed Ramadan offensive,” a government statement said this week.
The transitional government has expanded the areas it controls in Mogadishu to seven districts that are home to 90 percent of the city’s population, according to the government.
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Two apparently synchronized bombs have exploded in the southern city of Aden, killing two people and wounding 12 others.
The first bomb went off outside a sports club in the port city, wounding four people and sending police and rescue units rushing to the scene.
The second bomb exploded once they had arrived, injuring 10 more, including three soldiers. A security official told the Associated Press that the two people killed were civilians who died of their wounds at a hospital.
Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the organisation’s Yemen offshoot, announced on Monday via an Internet recording the formation of an “Aden-Abyan Army” that would free the country of “crusaders and their apostate agents,” according to the AFP news agency.
The recording was posted on the Al-Malaham website.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Several dozen Russian official media outlets reported on October 9 that a video of Last Appeal by 4 representatives of guerrillas, fighting in the Far East of the present-day Russia for freedom and independence of their country - the Amur Republic with its capital in Vladivostok - had been posted on the Youtube.
According to informal polls, the majority of the population of in Russian Far East wants to join Japan as its mainland province or to have their own independent state.
Russian media outlets suggest that the guerrillas in the Russian Far East use military experience of the Mujahideen of the Caucasus Emirate, and perhaps, at least some of them have secretly converted to Islam.
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http://www.kavkazcen … 10/10/10/12604.shtml
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Somaliland President Ahmed Sillanyo accused the Eritrean government of training and arming Ogaden National Liberation (ONLF) militias then smuggling them to Somaliland so that they would clandestinely cross the border to Ethiopia and wage war there.
President Ahmed Sillanyo condemned the Eritrean government for organizing and sponsoring the landing of ONLF militants on Somaliland soil.
He said the Eritrean government’s action is an act of terrorism, a gross interference in Somaliland’s affair, and a threat to neighboring countries.
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http://www.somalilan … /sl/2010/453/4.shtml