(AFP) – Ethiopia’s Ogaden rebels on Thursday condemned the arrest of two of their top leaders by the authorities of Somalia’s northern breakaway Puntland region.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said its leaders were arrested on Tuesday. “The two ONLF political prisoners were removed by force from their hotel in Garowe in central Somalia by security forces of the Puntland administration,” the rebel movement said in a statement.
The two ONLF leaders were then driven in the personal vehicle of Puntland’s finance minister back to the Ogaden border and handed over to Ethiopian Woyanne security, the rebel group said.