Ethiopia says it foiled al-Shabab attack near border with Somalia

Ethiopia says it foiled a suicide attack by the armed group al-Shabab at a border town with Somalia.

The Ethiopian army “stopped the attackers in their tracks before they could wreak havoc” in the Ethiopia-Somalia border town of Dollo, the foreign ministry said in a Twitter post on Wednesday.

“The Ethiopian National Defense Forces neutralised suicide bombers and destroyed weapons to be used by the terrorist group,” it added.

Al-Shabab, which has been linked to al-Qaeda, has been waging an armed rebellion against Somalia’s central government for about 15 years.

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