Ethiopia prepares for war...
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said his country has completed preparations for war with neighboring Somalia's powerful Islamist movement, alongside faltering peace efforts.Background here and here from this site.
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Meles told parliament Thursday that the Islamists, who have declared holy war on Ethiopian troops deployed to Somalia to protect the weak internationally backed Somali government, represented a "clear and present danger" to his country.
Less than a hour after after Meles' announcement, the Islamists gathered in a war council in Mogadishu and said they were ready to defend Somalia from invasion by a "reckless and war-thirsty" Ethiopia.
The very good entry in Wikipedia on the Somalia-Ethiopia situation from which the map at top of this entry is taken.
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