Friday, January 02, 2009
mewsinsideAddis Ababa - Ethiopia's final troop pullout from Somalia has started
and will last several more days, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's
spokesperson said on Friday.
"We have already started to implement our withdrawal plan. It will take
some more days. It is a process and it will take some time," Bereket
Simon said.
Ethiopia invaded neighbouring Somalia in 2006 to rescue an embattled
transitional administration and oust the Islamic Courts Union, which
had taken control of most of the country and started imposing a strict
form of Sharia law.
Addis Ababa announced late last year that it would have fully withdrawn from Somalia in the first days of 2009.
It had already significantly reduced its troop presence but the exact timetable for the final pullout remains unclear.
Ethiopian forces were still operating in Mogadishu on Friday.
Two soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the capital,
prompting retaliatory fire that left seven civilians dead, according to
witnesses.
SOURCE: AFP. Friday, January 02, 2009
Final Somalia pullout underway
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