Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia Demeke Mekonnen and his delegation lands at Godey Airport
Our aim for this attack was to disrupt the visiting delegation in Ogaden and send a clear message to the puppet administration that serves only the colonial agendas in our people and land. The official said to Ogadentoday Press on the phone.
Speaking on the attack the official said that they have killed several Ethiopian Troops at the airport and destroyed two vehicles.
This was a co-ordinated attack and went successfully, the official said.
The puppet administration was hiding the attack but the military leaders informed the delegation, said the official citing their intelligence in the Ogaden.
I can confirm to you that, it was midnight and they have been waiting to welcome the federal delegation in the morning.
There is no comment from Ethiopia government.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia Demeke Mekonnen, nine regional leaders, domestic and foreign investors were visiting Ogaden Region last week.
According to Ethiopian government, the domestic investors are interesting to invest the agricultural sector in Ogaden.
Ogaden National Liberation Front, a secessionist group fighting for the independence of Ogaden warns the foreign oil companies in Ogaden, and attacked in 2007 a Chinese oil field in Ogaden.
According to the source, ONLF were watching closely the visit and Pro- ONLF site “Ogaden News Agency (ONA) published that, ONLF fighters are on the high alert.
The arid Somali (or Ogaden) region of Ethiopia, home to some 7-8 million ethnic Somalis has been isolated from the world since 2005, when the government imposed a ban on all international media and most humanitarian groups from operating in the area.
– Ogadentoday Press
At least 13 people have been killed and another 10 wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Somalia.
The al-Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the explosion, which
happened at a restaurant near a military base in the city of Beledweyne,
around 210 miles north of Mogadishu. The city is under the control of
the central government and African Union peacekeepers from Djibouti are
stationed there.“Our main target was Ethiopian and Djibouti troops who invaded our country. They were sitting there,” al-Shabaab’s military operation spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, said.
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Ethiopian and Djibouti troops targeted by Al-Shabaab suicide bomber
At least 13 people have been killed and another 10 wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Somalia.
The al-Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the explosion, which
happened at a restaurant near a military base in the city of Beledweyne,
around 210 miles north of Mogadishu. The city is under the control of
the central government and African Union peacekeepers from Djibouti are
stationed there.“Our main target was Ethiopian and Djibouti troops who invaded our country. They were sitting there,” al-Shabaab’s military operation spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, said.
He put the death toll from the attack at 25.
“A man with an explosives jacket entered unexpectedly in the tea shop where soldiers and civilians sat … and blew himself up,” local elder Ahmed Nur said from the scene of the blast.
“I could see the bodies of several soldiers being carried, but I could not make out whether they were dead or injured.” Al-Shabaab frequently attacks political targets as well as restaurants and other recreational spaces popular with foreigners and government soldiers.
The al-Qaida linked militants also claimed responsibility for an attack last month on a shopping centre in Nairobi in which at least 72 people were killed.
Ethiopian troops have been fighting Islamist militants in neighbouring Somalia for much of the past decade.
The country waged an ill-fated war between 2006 and 2009, and sent troops across the border again in 2011 to combat al-Shabaab militants, who were also battling Kenyan troops and an African Union military mission.
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