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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
Ethiopia has pulled its last remaining troops from neighbouring Somalia, media reports quoted Ethiopian officials as saying, ending a bloody two-year intervention against Islamist opposition fighters. The withdrawal of 3,000 troops sparked fresh...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 10 months ago
Ethiopian Troops to Leave From Baidoa 25 January 2009 Baidoa — Sources from Baidoa say Ethiopian troops are preparing to withdraw from Baidoa, the seat of the transitional parliament, the sources said on Sunday. The Ethiopian troops completely...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
After a failed two-year effort to shore up the Somali government, Ethiopian forces have completed their withdrawal from Somalia, with the last troops crossing the border early on Monday, Reuters reported. The withdrawal left the country in the grip...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 10 months ago
Ethiopia says it has completed the withdrawal of its troops from Somalia after a two year intervention to combat opposition fighters. "The Ethiopians have fulfilled their promise. Their last troops crossed the border this morning," Abdi Haji Gobdon,...
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News Source: Press TV
| 10 months ago
Their last troops crossed the border this morning," government spokesman Abdi Haji Gobdon told Reuters on Monday. The last remaining Ethiopian troops pulled out of the provincial town of Baidoa, which houses Somalia's parliament, on Sunday night and...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 10 months ago
Ethiopia confirmed on Sunday that it had withdrawn all of its troops from Somalia. Bereket Simon, head of the newly-established Government Communication Affairs Office, told journalists that the country's defense force had been fully...
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News Source: News 24
| 10 months ago
The Somali government said Ethiopia completed its military withdrawal on Monday after a more than two-year intervention to combat an Islamist movement in its Horn of Africa neighbour. "The Ethiopians have fulfilled their promise. Their last troops...
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News Source: Sudan Tribune
| 10 months ago
The Ethiopia army have completely withdrawn its troops from Somalia where it was during two year and redeployed it along the border with the troubled country, the ministery of defense announced yesterday. After two years of presence in Somalia where...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
African Union troops are now attempting to hold up positions left by the Ethiopians. Ethiopia has formally announced that it has completed its withdrawal of about 3,000 troops from neighbouring Somalia. Ethiopia began its mission in Somalia late in...
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News Source: United Press International
| 10 months ago
The departure of the last of Ethiopia's troops from Somalia prompted a celebration in the border city of Dolo, officials said. The exit of the last Ethiopian troops Saturday marked the end of a two-year deployment in Somalia in which they were used...