PICTURES: President @HassanSMohamud along with Afwerki visits five thousand #Somali soldiers who have been in camps in #Eritrea for training for over three years under harsh living conditions.
Some soldiers died in training as @TheVillaSomalia confirmed, as the camps are hot during the day & cold at the night, without proper care. #Eritrea is under dictator with Int'l sanctions. @HassanSMohamud receives a salute from soldiers, some wearing plastic sandals. #Somalia.
It is not yet known why the ex-@M_Farmaajo administration chose #Eritrea to train the troops as several countries were available, incl #Turkey.
The PICs show soldiers with their faces thin and sunken cheeks & eyes, a clear sign that they were in difficult condition. #Somalia.
Afwerki gives visiting #Somalia president @HassanSMohamud a tour of various development projects in #Eritrea, including agricultural projects, solar energy grids, dairy farms & processing plants for milk and milk products, per @hawelti.
#Eritrean state TV aired footage of @HassanSMohamud receiving a salute and addressing #Somali troops secretly trained in #Eritrea from distance, not showing the President intermingled with them. #Somalia.
Last week, @HassanSMohamud visited #Somali commandos training in Isparta, #Turkey & shared a selfie with smiling soldiers inside the military base. #Somalia.
These are the military chief Gen Odowa and former NISA directors Yasin Farey and Fahad Yasin who spoke in the past differently about the case of the #Somali troops sent for training in #Eritrea.
Morning Round-Up: If you haven't gone read our latest series of tweets, here are @GaroweOnline Twitter Threads that Will Start Your Day and Stay informed. #Somalia.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Speaking at a memorial service arranged by fmr Prez @HassanSMohamud reminiscing late @HonAminaMohamed, PM @MohamedHRoble states in strong terms that he 'knows the perpetrators of the attack that killed MP Amina among 50 casualties' and pledges to 'hold them accountable.' #Somalia
'After I agreed with @GudlaweHussein on the removal of the HirShabelle SEIT commissioner, I had received intimidation messages, threatening me to face consequences' Roble adds, citing that his call for free and fair polls touched a nerve. #Somalia
Roble also reaffirms the claim that MP Amina's assassination was politically motivated and relates to the murder case of Ikram Tahlil, @HSNQ_NISA's cybersecurity agent. Ikram went missing under the shadows of the agency and letter pronounced dead without her body. #Somalia
BREAKING: Five killed in a drive-by shooting in Bnei Brak, central #Israel. An armed man on a motorbike opened fire toward passersby in the eastern Tel Aviv suburb.
The incident comes following two ISIS-inspired attacks.
VIDEO: Tensions are high at scenes following Bnei Brak shooting, with dozens of locals chanting “death to Arabs” and “revenge,”.
#Israeli Security officials in Tel Aviv believe the shooter is a Palestinian from West Bank and he was shot dead.
The shooting in #Israel is the third attack in a week in which 11 people were killed, making it the bloodiest in years. It is the tenth terror attack in the month of March - police.
New revelations about atrocities by Somali soldiers in Ethiopia’s #Tigray war are casting a spotlight on an emerging military alliance that has reshaped the Horn of #Africa, weakening Western influence in a strategically important region.
The @globeandmail has obtained eyewitness accounts of massacres by Somali troops embedded with Eritrean forces in #Tigray in the early months of the war.
The new evidence raises disturbing questions about a covert military alliance between #Ethiopia, #Eritrea & #Somalia that has inflicted death and destruction on the rebellious #Tigray region in northern Ethiopia. Officially, the three governments have denied any alliance.
No security, no protocol has been reported from #Kabul Airport as thousands of #Afghans try to flee the country. More than a thousand passengers tried to board a plane destined to #Istanbul with the capacity of 300 passengers ONLY. #Afghanistan
#VIDEO After hours of mayhem at Kabul Airport, US special forces arrived at the scene in an attempt to restore order. Prez Biden has recently announced that an additional 1000 troops will be deployed to Kabul. #Afghanistan#Kabul#Taliban
One of the last evac choppers takes off from the #US embassy in Kabul, leaving behind a $796M embassy. The #US has recently asked Taliban to spare its embassy if they capture the capital, #Kabul, prior to full evacuation of the embassy and all of its mission staff. #Afghanistan
Sources tell @GaroweOnline that Prime Minister @MohamedHRoble will soon depart the country heading to #Egypt on a state visit. The PM has recently returned to the county after a three-day official visit to #Kenya. #Somalia
Given the fact that the dispute over Somaliland electoral committee remains unsolved, and Prime Minister @MohamedHRoble's continued overseas trips, do you think he's a potential presidential candidate on a campaign? #Somalia
BREAKING: Prime Minister @MohamedHRoble is leaving for Egypt today. Prime Minister Roble has received an official invitation from the President of Egypt @AlsisiOfficial#Somalia
Senior Afghan officials and hundreds of Afghan government forces in the country’s west and south surrendered to the Taliban early Friday after the militants overran three key cities, inching the country closer to collapse in the final days of the U.S. withdrawal. #Afghanistan
The recent advances by the militant group,largely achieved with little resistance from Afghan government forces despite years of U.S. training & support, are isolating the Afghan capital with stunning speed and increasingly weakening the administration of President Ashraf Ghani.
In the western city of Herat, an entire Afghan army corps crumbled, with hundreds of troops handing over their weapons to the Taliban and others fleeing, according to local officials.