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Africa Horn
Parents of Somali soldiers fear sons fighting in Ethiopia
2021-01-31
Follow-up on stories we've been running from Garowe.
[AlAhram] The government has strenuously denied allegations that Somali troops were sent to battlefields in Tigray, where Æthiopian federal troops have been fighting with regional forces since November

Somalia is under growing pressure to explain the fate of soldiers whose families fear they were secretly deployed from training camps in neighbouring Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
 to fight in Æthiopia's northern Tigray region.
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