Sunday, June 19, 2011

Injecting Ethiopia Into Sudan

Are they out of Somalia yet?

"Sudan sides OK demilitarizing disputed area" June 14, 2011|By Luc Van Kemenade, Associated Press

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — North and south Sudan agreed “in principle’’ yesterday to demilitarize the disputed central Sudan region of Abyei and to allow an Ethiopian peacekeeping team to come in, an official said....

Earlier yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the United States wants to see northern troops withdraw from Abyei and would welcome Ethiopian peacekeepers being sent in....

Ethiopia a US proxy for the region, and seldom makes my paper.

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