The first batch of several thousand Somali troops that were sent to Eritrea for training in 2019 and 2020 have arrived back in Mogadishu. Parents of the soldiers, who feared their sons would be used in Ethiopia’s Tigray war, in which Eritrea was involved, had pressured the Somali government to bring the troops home. He said, the federal republic president has traveled twice to Eritrea in his efforts to speed the process of bringing these troops back to their homelands. It was in 2019 that the first of these troops, numbering 5,000 in all, were secretly taken to Eritrea to receive training. VOA Somali was not able to find any evidence that Somali soldiers were ever deployed to Tigray.

Source: Ethiopian News December 21, 2022 18:31 UTC