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Ethiopia’s Foreign minister wants joint effort for peace in Horn of Africa

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To combat Al Shabaab in the Eastern part of Africa, particularly in Somalia, Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taye Atske Selassie, has recommended that countries in the Horn of Africa work together to combat the terrorist organisation.

Atske Selassie, while briefing journalists on Friday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, stated that Al Shabaab is “well-equipped” to carry out deadly attacks in the Horn of Africa region.

He also mentioned that countries in the region need to come together more than ever before to defend the terrorist activities of Al Shabaab and keep it at bay.

Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that the government is dedicated to working together with Somalia to combat the terrorist organisation.

Ethiopia is providing Somalia with unreserved military and other support until the Somali National Army (SNA) can handle the security problems throughout the country on its own.

In addition to this, he stated that the countries in the region need to redouble their efforts to prevent those forces from undoing the painstaking victories that have been made against terrorism in the region.

Noting that there are unbreakable links of fraternity among the peoples of the area, he made a commitment that Ethiopia will continue to establish, heal, and enhance its relations with the countries that are its neighbours.

Al-Shabaab, which declared its allegiance to Al-Qaida in 2012, continues to be the most active terrorist group in East Africa. Its assaults are largely carried out in Somalia, but they also occur in adjacent states. The year 2021 saw a rise in the number of indirect fire strikes that it launched on aeroplanes and airfields. It continues to be highly versatile.

Al-Shabaab has also carried out big, complicated, and lethal attacks outside of Somalia since the year 2016, including one in Kenya. There are persistent worries regarding actions related to recruitment and radicalisation.

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French army begins Chad pullout

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Just two weeks after local authorities said they were terminating their defence collaboration, the French army announced that jets deployed in the capital N’Djamena had returned home on Tuesday, marking the beginning of France’s military departure from Chad.

The government of Chad, a crucial Western partner in the war against Islamic jihadists in the area, unexpectedly terminated its defence cooperation treaty with France on November 28, a decision that caught French authorities off guard.

It is still unclear how the evacuation will be executed and if any French forces will remain in the central African country at all, even after the first Mirage aircraft returned to their base in eastern France on Tuesday.

“It marks the beginning of the return of French equipment stationed in N’Djamena,” Army spokesperson Colonel Guillaume Vernet said.

Due to anti-French sentiment and military takeovers in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, France has already withdrawn its troops from those West African nations.

Decades of French military participation in the Sahel area came to an end with the departure from Chad, and more recently, French military operations against Islamist extremists in the region were discontinued.

There are still around 1,000 French soldiers in Chad. Vernet stated that it would still take several weeks for the two nations to establish a schedule for reducing its activities.

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Court documents show Meta contractor overlooked Ethiopia rebel threats to moderators

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New evidence cited by Reuters suggests that a contractor employed by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, overlooked threats against content moderators by Ethiopian rebels during a case contesting the removal of dozens of moderators in Kenya.

Last year, 185 content moderators sued Meta and two contractors for losing their positions with Sama, a Kenyan business that moderated Facebook material, for seeking to form a union.

After Facebook switched contractors, they were barred from applying for the same jobs at Majorel.

Foxglove, a British non-profit helping Ethiopian moderators, submitted court filings on Dec. 4 alleging that Sama ignored their accusations that OLA rebels had targeted them for deleting their videos.

In the petition obtained by Reuters, the moderators said Sama accused them “of creating a false account and manufacturing” the threatening messages before agreeing to a probe and transferring one of the rebels’ officially named moderators to a safe house.

In his statement, Moderator Abdikadir Alio Guyo said that OLA had threatened “content moderators who were constantly pulling down their graphic Facebook Posts.”

“They told us to stop removing their content from Facebook or else we would face dire consequences,” he said, adding that his supervisor dismissed his concerns.
In his declaration, another moderator, Hamza Diba Tubi, stated that OLA sent him a message with the names and addresses of both himself and his coworkers.

“Since I received that threatening message, I have lived in so much fear of even visiting my family members in Ethiopia,” he said.

After peace negotiations in Tanzania in 2023 failed to end a decades-old conflict, the government of Oromiya, Ethiopia’s biggest province, accused OLA rebels of killing “many civilians” in assaults.

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