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Eritrea blames Ethiopia, allies for Somalia's lingering crisis

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Saturday, 29 December 2007

AMID escalating crisis in Somalia, Eritrea has described the conflict as a "second Iraq" for Ethiopia and its international partners who supported the country's invasion.

"Just as the Eritrean government had predicted before hand, the situation in Somalia has become a second Iraq to the TPLF (Ethiopian regime) and its masters," Agence France Presse (AFP) yesterday, quoted a statement posted on the information ministry web-site as saying.

"Now, after it has become clear to all that the war in Somalia has no end, the United States (U.S.) administration, the United Nations (UN) and the international community, as a whole, are being forced to admit that their approach towards the Somali issue was indeed wrong," it added.

The statement was posted exactly a year after Ethiopian military planes, with tacit U.S. backing, bombed Islamist positions inside Somalia.

Ethiopian troops then helped Somali government forces force Islamist fighters from the country's southern and central regions, where they had imposed Sharia law.

Ethiopia said it was protecting its borders from the Islamists, who had already declared Jihad (Holy War) on Addis Ababa, but some of its troops have been killed in action, some of whom were dragged through the Mogadishu streets.

"Unfortunately for the TPLF, wars do not prolong life -- they can only shorten it," the statement said.

Asmara's frosty ties with Ethiopia over an unresolved border dispute and the subsequent fall-out over Somalia compelled the Horn of Africa nation to pull-out of a regional peacemaking bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development that was assigned to deal with the Somali issue.

Eritrea repeatedly urged the world to stop the Ethiopian invasion, warning that it could worsen the situation in Somalia.

Instead the UN accused Asmara of arming the Islamists, some of whom were accused of ties with extremist groups. Analysts accuse Asmara and Addis Ababa of fight a proxy war in Somalia, a charge they both deny.

Since then, the Islamist militants have waged an insurgency mainly in Mogadishu. The militants warned of a long, drawn-out war that will end and peace talks follow after Ethiopia pulls out its troops.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi last week, said the African Union (AU)'s failure to deploy a promised 8,000 peacekeepers to Somalia had made his troops to stay longer the expected in the lawless nation, home to 10 million people.

The UN has only deployed about 1,800 peacekeepers -1,600 from Uganda and 200 from Burundi- in the country who have neither been able to bolster the feeble government of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed nor protect humanitarian supplies.

The UN Security Council, last Wednesday, renewed its call for the world body to pursue contingency planning for deploying a peacekeeping force in the country, and expressed "grave concern" at the humanitarian situation.

The joint UN-U.S. peace mission in Somalia in the mid-1990s ended after it pulled out in the face of escalating clan conflict that killed more than 140 UN peacekeepers and 18 U.S. special forces.

The violence has forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave Mogadishu in recent months, according to the United Nations, prompting warnings of an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.

Aid agencies have said that conflict is choking off efforts to deliver humanitarian supplies to those affected.

Zenawi has accused UN agencies of "hype and exaggeration," in their reporting of the humanitarian situation in Somalia.

Numerous bids to restore stability to Somalia since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991 have failed because of clan warfare and unrest.

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