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Dollow Somalia: Ethiopian troops at the border town of Dollow jailed Somali Member of Parliament who was also the former Somali defense minister Col. Barre Adan Shire well-known “Barre Hiiraale”. News broke out today after friends and family members made contact with Gedoonline website. All effort to reach the Ethiopian command center at the border town of Dollow failed and the only sources available are his close staff members who confirmed the arrest. He jailed after he went to meet Ethiopian military personnel to discuss an ongoing military operation in the southern Somali region of Gedo.There are no details from the Ethiopian and the Somali governments. His family members in Nairobi confirmed that they informed the matter to the Somali transitional government in Mogadishu and are hoping the minister will get his freedom back. It is the first Somali high ranking official deliberately jailed by the Ethiopian government since the Somali Ethiopian war in 1977.Col. Barre is very prominent figure in the Somali politics; he was one of the signatories at the Somali Peace Talks Nairobi Kenya that established the current Transitional Government mandate in 2004. He was the chairman of The Jubba Valley Alliance – JVA a regional administration of five southern Somali region from 1997 to 2004. His JVA local administration was destroyed by the Islamic Courts Union and Al-shabab Islamist groups. For the last three years Barre was preparing a Somali military force against Al-shabab that controls much of the south. He was based at Dollow the border side of Somalia. He was safe at this town because of the Ethiopian military base at the other side of the border.He gained strength and organized one of the most committed, trained and prepared Somali military force against Al-shabab. His effort was part of the Transitional Federal Movement overall strategy to destroy the Islamists and secure the country. Most of his men are from his clan base (Mareehan) and he enjoys their loyalty to face the mostly powerful enemy of the Somali Nation (Al-shabaab).Late February 2011, he launched a very successful operation and defeated Al-shabaab forces in Gedo region. His troops now control most of Gedo region bordering Ethiopia and Kenya. Both Ethiopian and Kenya supported this operation to keep border areas secure and had a good relationship with Col. Barre. The news that the Ethiopian troops detained Col. creates distrust towards the whole operation to defeat the Islamist groups in control of the south.There is no effective central government in Somalia since the collapse of the central government in 1991. Somalia is divided into small localities controlled by local administrations or religious extremist groups and the Somali Transitional government is a very weak one. International and Regional efforts to rebuild Somali government has failed quite a number of times and the situation looks bleak every beforeFind MORE about Ethiopia Detector
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