(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) MOGADISHU — Ethiopian Woyanne troops allied to Somalia’s shaky government opened fire on civilians in a street in southwestern Somalia, killing 13 on Wednesday after an explosion there killed two soldiers, witnesses said.
Witness Mohamud Ahmed Nur said an explosion apparently caused by a remote-controlled land mine killed the two Ethiopian Woyanne troops, who were patrolling the town of Baidoa.
The soldiers, he said, then opened fire in all directions, killing at least 10 civilian passers-by outright.
Mohamed Hussein Diriye, a doctor at the town’s main hospital, said three more people died later of their injuries and that seven others were still being treated at the hospital, he said.
“It was a horrific scene, blood scattered everywhere,” said witness Jamal Haji. “I saw the dead bodies of at least 10 people lying in the middle of the road.”
Baidoa is 250 kilometers (155 miles) southwest of the capital, Mogadishu, and is the headquarters for the Somali parliament. Several senior government officials also live there.
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This is the Agazi comando in action. What a shame. Is is how to win the hearts and minds of the somali people? These war lords of the Jungle know nothing but kill anything that moves. No surprise.
The following isn’t news to you lol. Enjoy it.
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2008—The World Bank today launched a new Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Ethiopia. The strategy covers the period July 2008 – June 2011 and aims to help Ethiopia sustain its strong performance in economic growth and basic service delivery in recent years.
Ethiopia has entered the early stages of a ‘dual take-off’ in the provision of basic services and in economic growth. Over the past decade, its efforts to improve basic services have shown impressive results. Primary school enrollments have tripled, child mortality has almost been cut in half, and the number of people with access to clean water has more than doubled. Over the last four years, GDP growth has averaged over 11 percent per year. The percentage of Ethiopians living in poverty, which stood at 46 percent in 1996 and 44 percent in 2001, fell to 39 percent in 2006.
Hey Jorge so what,it is apparent that the people of ethiopia is suffering from high cost of living and inflation.It is becoming difficult to send a single child to school,employees salary don´t satisfy their daily basic needs let alone other things and also don`t forget that currently aroung 9 million people are in danger for lack of food.So jorge the so called growth to the people of ethiopia is becoming”Lam Alegne Besemay Wetetuan Yemalay”
What about this? Is it not a news?
Air raid kills Somali militants
The leader of the military wing of an Islamist insurgent organisation in Somalia has been killed in an overnight air strike.
Aden Hashi Ayro, al-Shabab’s military commander, died when his home in the central town of Dusamareb was bombed.
Ten other people, including a senior militant, are also reported dead.
A US military spokesman told the BBC that it had attacked what he called a known al-Qaeda target in Somalia, but refused to give further details.
Al-Shabab, considered a terrorist group by the US, is the military wing of the Somali Sharia courts movement, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), until Ethiopian troops ousted them in 2006.
The group has since regrouped and is in effect in control of large parts of central and southern Somalia.
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An al-Shabab spokesman, Mukhtar Robow Adumansur, told the BBC that Ayro was killed along with his brother in the attack.
Locals said it happened at about 0300 (2400 GMT).
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“We heard a huge explosion and when we ran out of our house we saw balls of smoke and flames coming out of house,” Nur Geele told the BBC.
The house was totally destroyed to the ground, also other houses nearby,” local elder Ahmed Mumin Jama said.
Ayro received training in Afghanistan in the 1990s and was an instrumental military figure as the UIC took control of Mogadishu in the second half of 2006, says the head of the BBC’s Somali Service Yusuf Garad.
The US says al-Shabab is part of the al-Qaeda network, although correspondents say it is impossible to accurately establish those links.
Al-Shabab leaders say it is a purely Somali movement and they deny any involvement with al-Qaeda.
‘Serious threat’
In its annual report on terrorism published on Wednesday, the US said al-Shabab militants in Somalia, along with al-Qaeda militants in east Africa, posed “the most serious threat to American and allied interests in the region”.
Al-Shabab has been at the forefront of a guerrilla insurgency against the government and its Ethiopian allies since early 2007.
In recent weeks, they have briefly captured several towns in central and southern Somalia before withdrawing.
The US has launched several air strikes against suspected extremist targets in Somalia in recent months.
It has an anti-terror task force based in neighbouring Djibouti, and has accused Somali Islamists of harbouring those responsible for the 1998 attacks on its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The Islamists denied this.
Somalia has not had an effective national government since 1991.
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They have earned murderers in Ethiopia and now are mastering as killers in Somalia; however don’t forget the law of physics: FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS EQUAL REACTION. i just hope the Somalian people distinguish between the killers!