Ethiopia said on Wednesday it had foiled an attack by jihadist group Al-Shabaab on a town on its border with Somalia. The Ethiopian army “stopped the attackers in their tracks before they could wreak havoc” in the Ethiopia-Somalia border town of Dollo, the foreign ministry said in a Twitter post. The first attack targeted “the headquarters of the local military command,” while the second hit a weapons and ammunition warehouse, it said. It has targeted Ethiopia in retaliation for Addis Ababa sending troops into Somalia as part of the AU force — known as ATMIS — to oust the jihadists. In mid-2022, the militants attacked several Ethiopian military camps on the border between the two countries.

Source: Ethiopian News June 08, 2023 08:53 UTC