WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA
The African Union condemned foreign fighters in Somalia who are helping local Islamist insurgents, and it accepted Ethiopia’s denial that it had sent troops across the border to counter the rebels.
International concern has been rising this year over the presence of foreign fighters among the rebels fighting President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed’s government and African Union peacekeepers.
Ethiopia sent thousands of troops in 2006 to topple an Islamist movement. It withdrew them this year, and has denied reports of incursions.
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