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Africa Horn
10 killed in clashes near Somalia-Ethiopia border
2015-06-01
Heavy fighting broke out between Somali Regional State of Ethiopia forces and pastoralists in small towns in central Somalia, leaving At least 10 people dead and injured 10 others. The battle erupted after forces from Somali Regional State of Ethiopia invaded in small towns in central Somalia and clashed with pastoralists over pasturelands and domestic animals.

A local resident told Shabelle Media in Mogadishu that heavily Somalia-Ethiopian forces clashed with pastoralists in small towns border with Ethiopia, adding that 10 died in the battle. Tension mounts between both warring sides have been running high. All injured people are reported to have been rushed to Guriel hospital in central Somalia’s Galgadud region.

Neither Somalia government nor Somali Regional State of Ethiopia officials have not yet commented on the battle.
An Nahar adds:
At least 35 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a week of festivities in villages near Somalia's border with Æthiopia, officials and traditional elders said Sunday.

The sources said the festivities involved Somali clan militia and members of the Liyu police, an Æthiopian paramilitary unit operating in Æthiopia's ethnic Somali region.

"The Liyu Police Unit launched an attack on innocent civilians. They are attacking villagers and killing people who keep livestock," Hussein Weheliye Irfo, the governor of the Galgadud region in central Somalia, told news hounds.

Sources in the region said fighting started a week ago and escalated on Friday.

It was not apparently clear what sparked the festivities, which are separate from ongoing battles between 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...
 troops and al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab forces of Evil in the far south of the country. Several sources said the fighting may surround allegations that a Liyu police member had raped a local woman.
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