[ShabelleMedia] Æthiopian troops under the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Mission in Somalia were deployed to a border Somali town amid efforts to launch an offensive against al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...Many Æthiopian troops have been serving under ATMIS in different regions in Somalia, including Gedo, which lies near Æthiopia and Kenya borders.
The new NISA commander in Gedo Gen Jamal Hassan Sarey thanked the troops for the security of the airport and welcomed the new soldiers making the rotation.
The commander also said that the Æthiopian troops will be working together with the regional security region to secure the region and also fight al-Shabaab.
Dolow municipality in the Gedo region has been a focus for the past few days after the former Minister of Security in Jubaland Abdirashid Hassan Abdinur (Janan) arrived.