Eritrea is a nation state that is situated north of Ethiopia. It gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993. The Somali Regional State (aka Western Somali and Ogaden) is still part of Ethiopia and it is located in the south-east of the country; however, there is a political entity known as Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) that claims to be fighting for the liberation of that region from Ethiopia. On the basis of my enemy’s enemy is my friend, the leaders of Eritrea and ONLF are working together, in the shadows and in extreme secrecy, to take advantage of the current Horn of Africa political climate. Here is a birds-eye-view of what is going on in that part of the world.
I will begin with Eritrea. It has a population of 3.6 million people. It got full independence from Ethiopia on May, 24, 1993.

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Two Eritrean rebel groups said on Friday they have killed 25 government soldiers and wounded at least 38 others, in ambushes on two military camps.

There was no immediate comment from the Eritrean government and the report could not be independently confirmed.

Rebel spokesman Yasin Mohamed said the attacks by the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation (RSADO) and the Eritrean Salvation Front (ESF) rebels were in retaliation for the repression of the Afar minority and others by the government.

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Separatists of angolan enclave of Cabinda, perpetrators of the attack on the Togo national football team, today said that “guns will continue to talk” in Cabinda. Declarations have been done at telephone by Rodrigues Mingas, responsable of separatist group that has claimed the attack against the delegation of Togo in Africa Coup. Mingas, talking at telephone from Paris where lives in exile, has explained: “We are in war and all shots are allowed”.

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At least 140 people were killed in a remote region of south Sudan, a UN official said yesterday as aid agencies warned of a new civil war on the eve of the anniversary of a fragile peace deal between north and south.

Concern is mounting over stability in Sudan because Africa’s largest nation, which is blessed by huge oil resources, faces a crucial political test this year — its first general election in 24 years.

Ninety people were also wounded in the violence in Wunchuei region of the southern Warrap state over the past week, but the United Nations found out about the clashes only two days ago when a security team visited the area.

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The offensive launched in Yemen against the local cell of Al Qaeda gives first results. It would have been captured the number one of terrorist organization, Mohammad Ahmed al-Hanak.

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At least 47 people have been killed and 100 injured in fighting in the central Somali town of Dhuusa Marreeb, a human rights official has told the BBC.

Ali Yasin Gedi, of Somali human rights group Elman, said many people had fled the town where allies of the government fought to drive out Islamist rebels.

The pro-government Ahlu Sunna group is said to have recaptured the strategic town from al-Shabaab militants.

The militants were reportedly in control of the town for a few hours.

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A senior commander of a Ugandan rebel group has been killed in Central African Republic, a Ugandan military spokesman has said.

Brigadier Bok Abudema of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was killed in the town of Djema on Friday amid an ongoing operation by Ugandan forces across several countries in the region against the group.

“This was a New Year’s gift to Uganda,” Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kulayige, Uganda’s defence and army spokesman, said on Saturday.

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