Word: ethiopian
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...make matters worse, Ethiopian troops are leaving Somalia, and the AU’s armed forces cannot step in to maintain peace in the country. The AU troops in Somalia consist entirely of Ugandan and Burundian troops, and according to reports these troops are planning to leave the country, with the Ethiopians even staying longer than planned to protect their retreat...
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...island of St. Maarten ran out of fuel after missing three approaches in heavy weather, forcing the pilot to ditch in the Caribbean; 20 of the 57 passengers on board died, largely because no announcement was made to remind them to buckle their seat belts. In 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight over the Comoros Islands crashed into the ocean after running out of fuel; the pilot attempted to make a water landing while fighting off the hijackers. Of the 172 people on board, 45 survived...
...Ethiopians, with U.S. assistance, invaded to topple an Islamist movement that controlled Mogadishu, and had been sheltering a handful of al-Qaeda operatives. Osama bin Laden's movement killed more than 200 people when they attacked two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and several small groups of U.S. special operations soldiers accompanied the Ethiopians in the hope that the invasion would flush local operatives out into the open. The Ethiopians drove out the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), but quickly became the target of the Islamist Shabaab insurgency that has raged ever since. Having gone in to provide...
...primary effect of Ethiopia's pull-out will simply be to stop Ethiopian troops being killed on the streets of Mogadishu. It will take a lot more than that to fix Somalia. See pictures of piracy in Somalia...