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  • Updated: June 08, 2023

Al-Shabaab Attack Prevented By Ethiopia On Its Somali Border

Al-Shabaab Attack Prevented By Ethiopia On Its Somali Border

Al-Shabaab Attack Prevented By Ethiopia On Its Somali Border.

The Ethiopian army on Wednesday "thwarted" an attack by Somali Islamist Shabaab fighters against a border town between the two countries, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry announced. 

"Ethiopia today successfully thwarted an attempted attack by the terrorist group al-Shabaab against the locality of Dolo, on the Ethiopia-Somalia border", briefly indicates the ministry in a statement. 

The Ethiopian federal army "neutralized suicide bombers and destroyed shebab-used weapons," according to the government, assuring that "the attackers were stopped dead before they could do great damage."

The Ethiopian government did not indicate which target was attacked or where the assailants were eliminated. 

Dolo in Ethiopia is only around three kilometres from Doolow in Somalia.

The Shebab Islamists, who are affiliated with Al-Qaeda and have been fighting the Somali federal government since 2007, confirmed in a press release that they had "carried out two suicide operations against a military base of the Ethiopian forces in the locality of Doolow, in the region of Gedo" on the Somali side of the border.

"The two operations caused a heavy toll in dead and wounded," claims the organization, which is known for exaggerating the consequences of its attacks. 

In the summer of 2022, the Shebab attacked multiple Ethiopian military facilities on the border between the two nations.

In mid-July, the authorities of the Ethiopian province of Somalia, which borders Somalia, stated that they had eliminated a group of roughly a hundred shebabs who had infiltrated Ethiopian territory, around a hundred kilometres as the crow flies from the Somali border.

The Ethiopian army contributes troops to the African Union force in Somalia (Atmis), which aids the Somali government in its fight against Shebab.

After being driven out of major metropolitan centres for 10 years, the Shebab have entrenched themselves in large rural regions, from where they continue to carry out assaults against government and civilian targets.

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