Ethiopia: Eritrea Behind African Union Attack Plot - U.N. Group
July 28, 2011
Eritrea was behind the plot to attack the African Union summit in Addis Ababa in January 2011, according to a U.N. monitoring group report on Somalia and Eritrea, Reuters reported July 28. The report said all but one of the people arrested for the plot had been trained by Eritrean officers and it is believed the officers are also involved in supervisory and operational roles in external operations in Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia and Sudan. According to the monitoring group, the Eritrean officers present an enhanced level of threat to the region as a whole and it has obtained documentary evidence of Eritrean payments to a number of individuals linked to al Shabaab. The Eritrean Embassy in Nairobi continues to maintain and exploit a network of Somali contacts, intelligence assets and influential agents in Kenya.
July 28, 2011
Eritrea was behind the plot to attack the African Union summit in Addis Ababa in January 2011, according to a U.N. monitoring group report on Somalia and Eritrea, Reuters reported July 28. The report said all but one of the people arrested for the plot had been trained by Eritrean officers and it is believed the officers are also involved in supervisory and operational roles in external operations in Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia and Sudan. According to the monitoring group, the Eritrean officers present an enhanced level of threat to the region as a whole and it has obtained documentary evidence of Eritrean payments to a number of individuals linked to al Shabaab. The Eritrean Embassy in Nairobi continues to maintain and exploit a network of Somali contacts, intelligence assets and influential agents in Kenya.
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