Mogadishu-Ethiopian troops have undertaken military intelligence reconnaissance operations in wracked Somalia but the country is not planning to engage in battle gun quarrel with the Al Shabaab militants. Sources in Somalia say that Ethiopia has no plans to go back on a fighting mission but the redeployment is only for reconnaissance intelligence missions.

Ethiopia is undertaking intelligence operations in Somalia after the Al Shabaab terrorists killed over 60 people in Kenya’s capital Nairobi during bullets attack in revenge for Kenya’s deployment of foreign troops in Mogadishu.

Ethiopian garrisons rolled into Somalia in 2006 to provide support to a struggling transitional government against the Al Shabaab Islamist fighters. During the first invasion of Ethiopia into Somalia, the local Somalis accused it of killing over 200 civilians in just one month. A source in Ethiopian government speaking on condition of anonymity, told our reporter in Mogadishu that Ethiopia has not entered Somalia but it has noticed a ‘ threat’ so its on scouts and reconnaissance missions.

Sources among Kenyan army, Ugandan army (UPDF) and Burundian army who are in Somalia, have reported to us seeing Addis Ababa armies moving around Beledweyne, a regional capital near the boarder of Ethiopia and Somalia.

The first Ethiopia’s military entry into Somalia in 2006 was backed by an African regional bloc under the aegis of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and with the backing of the African Union.

Walakira Nyanzi

Ultimate Media