Monday, February 16, 2009

Ethiopian troops free Somali MP and politicians

DOLOW jubbaland state-Mohamud Sayid Adan, a Somali MP and the former Mogadishu mayor, Mohamed Omar Habeeb, has been released by the Ethiopian troops in the border town of Dolow, official said on Tuesday.The Ethiopian troops released Mohamed Omar Habeeb last month from a jail in Baidoa after they captured him from a house in Mogadishu.Hareed Ali Bulbul, a Somali government official in Dolow town has confirmed that the Ethiopian troops freed the Somali politicians and crossed the border between Somalia and Ethiopia to the side of Dolow town in Gedo region jubbaland state in south-western Somalia where they were welcomed warmly by the Somali people in the region.Mr. Bulbul said that the politicians were released after the jubbaland state officials in Dolow town made more efforts and talked with Ethiopia to release them. Mohamed Omar Habeeb and Mohamud Sayid Adan followed the Ethiopian troops from Baidoa to Ethiopia when they pulled out from the town and sources in Ethiopia say that they went Ethiopia to fly from there to Djibouti where the newly Somali government was chosen recently. It is not yet clear the reason behind the jailing of the Somali politicians but reports close to Ethiopian government say that the arrest of the Somali citizens related to a violation of the law of the Ethiopian country
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