Somalia: On Ground Updates
Monday, November 16, 2009
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Monday, November 16, 2009
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* VOANews.com brings us the following report and it starts off like this... A rebel group in Ethiopia's restive Ogaden region says it has killed 626 government troops in heavy fighting near the border with neighboring Somalia. The government has dismissed the claim as 'a complete fabrication'... A communiqué sent to news agencies by e-mail says a multi-front offensive launched by the Ogaden National Liberation Front November 10th is still in progress. The communiqué, believed to be sent from ONLF offices in Europe, says 626 Ethiopian troops have died, and the statement says the battlefields are littered with bodies of soldiers... It describes ONLF casualties as 'minimal', but gives no details...
Read the full report at link below...
Ogaden Rebels say 626 Ethiopian Troops Killed in Clashes
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* BBC.co.uk has this take on the news out of the Somali area today and it starts like this... Ethnic-Somali rebels in the south-east of Ethiopia say they have launched an offensive against government forces and captured several towns... The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said it began attacking on several fronts on Tuesday... The separatists said a "significant number" of Ethiopian troops had been killed and their equipment captured... The reports could not be verified and Ethiopia has in the past dismissed rebel accounts of military gains...
Read the full report at link below...
Ethiopia rebels 'capture towns'
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* AFRIC.com reports it this way... Ethiopia’s Somali-speaking communities, allegedly marginalized by Ethiopian government in Addis Ababa have begun another bout of rebellion against the government. So far seven towns have been captured as the rebels demand secession. Some Ethiopians have, however, dismissed claims made by the rebels, as having captured several towns, as preposterous propaganda. Some also insist that having been sealed off to the media, there is very little accurate information about events in the region... According to local reports, the operation involved thousands of troops of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), and resulted in two days of heavy fighting. The reports also claimed that a significant number of Ethiopian troops had been killed and their gadgets captured, and the rebel forces had been warmly welcomed in captured towns... The ONLF has launched several attacks since Tuesday last week...
Read the rest at link below...
Ethiopia-Ogaden: Somali ethnicity wages war for secession amid murky claims
Read the full report at link below...
Ogaden Rebels say 626 Ethiopian Troops Killed in Clashes
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* BBC.co.uk has this take on the news out of the Somali area today and it starts like this... Ethnic-Somali rebels in the south-east of Ethiopia say they have launched an offensive against government forces and captured several towns... The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said it began attacking on several fronts on Tuesday... The separatists said a "significant number" of Ethiopian troops had been killed and their equipment captured... The reports could not be verified and Ethiopia has in the past dismissed rebel accounts of military gains...
Read the full report at link below...
Ethiopia rebels 'capture towns'
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* AFRIC.com reports it this way... Ethiopia’s Somali-speaking communities, allegedly marginalized by Ethiopian government in Addis Ababa have begun another bout of rebellion against the government. So far seven towns have been captured as the rebels demand secession. Some Ethiopians have, however, dismissed claims made by the rebels, as having captured several towns, as preposterous propaganda. Some also insist that having been sealed off to the media, there is very little accurate information about events in the region... According to local reports, the operation involved thousands of troops of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), and resulted in two days of heavy fighting. The reports also claimed that a significant number of Ethiopian troops had been killed and their gadgets captured, and the rebel forces had been warmly welcomed in captured towns... The ONLF has launched several attacks since Tuesday last week...
Read the rest at link below...
Ethiopia-Ogaden: Somali ethnicity wages war for secession amid murky claims
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ONLF TRAININ CAMP IN OGADEN
(Part One)
This video posted on YouTube by EEGAA
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AubreyJ.........
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ONLF TRAININ CAMP IN OGADEN
(Part One)
This video posted on YouTube by EEGAA
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AubreyJ.........
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