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Troops to Mediate Two Somali Fighting Tribes in Ethiopia

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
NEWS
February 24, 2007
Posted to the web February 24, 2007

By Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu
Contingents of heavily armed Ethiopian troops have intervened two tribal
militias who have been fighting over water wells and pastoral lands in the
Somali administered region in Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian troops have departed from Mustahil and Feerfeer, settlements
resided by Somalis under the Ethiopian administration, reaching Somali
controlled villages in the fifth region of Ethiopia on Saturday, witnesses have
told Shabelle by the phone.
Sources say the Ethiopian forces would mediate between the two Somali tribes
who skirmished and set on accumulating arms to restart their fight.
At least 20 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in the tribal war
in the region after the fighting has been continuing for the past two days.
Several hundreds of pastoralists and herders have fled the two villages.


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