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Aethiopia to leave Somalia by mid February
 Addis Ababa 01, Feb.07 ( Sh.M.Network) -The Ethiopian government has repeated asking the African countries that offered sending peacekeeping force to Somalia to hasten their mission before Ethiopia completes its troop withdrawal form Somalia by mid February.Seum Mesfin, Ethiopian foreign minister, has expressed he was confident that the African peacekeeping mission would arrive in Somalia in two weeks when Ethiopian troops protecting the fragile Somali government would entirely leave the country. He said the sudden arrival of the peacekeepers in Somalia would fill the power vacuum during the transitional period, adding the last Ethiopian soldier would desert Somalia when the peacekeepers land in by mid February. In a press conference, he held in Addis Ababa after the AU summit ended on Tuesday, Mesfin pointed out that there were many African countries that promised participation in reconstruction and logistic assistance for the war-torn country as those countries could not offer troops. Posted by: Steve White 2007-02-03 |
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