Ethiopia and Eritrea trade accusations over conflict

[N.O.R.F]

Ethiopia and Eritrea trade accusations over conflict

 

AP

 

 

 

Nairobi: Somali, Ethiopian and Eritrean officials traded accusations yesterday about their roles in Somalia's conflict, highlighting concerns Somalia could destabilise the Horn of Africa region and beyond.

 

At a regional meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi to review the situation in Somalia, an African Union official also said the group's peacekeeping force in Somalia has not received promised financial and logistical support.

 

Officials of Somalia and Ethiopia - whose forces are fighting an insurgency in the Somali capital, Mogadishu - accused Eritrea of undermining Somalia's transitional government and being involved in terrorism in the region.

 

An Eritrean official denied the allegations.

 

Somalia's Foreign Minister Ishmael Hurreh told his fellow ministers Eritrea's actions included "the use of force." Ethiopia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu charged that "Eritrea is not simply supporting terrorism, it is actively involved in terrorism in Ethiopia and our sub-region." Amdeab Ghebremeskel, director of African Affairs in Eritrea's Foreign Affairs ministry, countered that Ethiopia's military intervention had resulted in Somalia entering "a new and very dangerous phase neither advancing peace and stability nor democracy."

 

Members

 

The Nairobi meeting brought together the seven members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda.

 

Earlier in the meeting, Said Djinnit, the African Union's peace and security commissioner, appealed to donors who made pledges to the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia to release the funds urgently.

 

"We still face a serious financial shortfall," Djinnit told the meeting.

 

The delay in deploying a peacekeeping force that regional leaders had first recommended in January 2005, "not only complicated the political situation and helped internationalise the conflict in Somalia but led to a costly war affecting the security of the entire region," said Attalla Bashir, executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development.

 

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[Ebyan]

TFG= Ethiopian backed

ICU/"insurgents"= Eritrean backed

 

Both are using Somalis to fight their fight. At the end of the day, those who benefit are the Habashi.

[Fabregas]

The I.C.U never brought one Eritrean soldier to Somalia. Whilst the T.F.G brought(they had no choice) thousands of Ethiopian troops illegaly to Somalia. These soldiers have been carried out some of the worst gross violations in Somalia. These include: indiscriminate shelling of civilians, torture, rape and many other gross crimes. Somali citizens have also been illegally taken to Adiss ababa as alleged terrorists and being exposed to torture and inhumane conditions.

[Ebyan]

It doesn't matter; each country backed one horse and told them to fight. Ethiopia/The TFG won. Had it been the other way around, Eritreas interests would have been fulfilled. Ethiopia is now the top dog in the horn.