Ethiopia army 'locates abducted children'

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The army is at the vanguard of efforts to deliver the abducted women and children, the governing says



Ethiopia's army has encircled the expanse in neighbouring Southward Sudan where it believes more 100 abducted Ethiopian children are existence held, local media paper.

The children were interpreted in a cross-border maraud in the Gambella area finish Friday, in which 208 multitude died. The authorities has aforementioned members of the Murle community were creditworthy. Flags bear been fast at one-half mast in Ethiopia as the nation mourns those who were killed. Africa Survive: Intelligence updates from approximately the celibate



A regime functionary in Gambella aforementioned that the abducted children would presently be reclaimed, the government-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporal reports.

Why Ethiopian soldiery are in S Sudan: Emmanuel Igunza, BBC Newsworthiness, Addis Ababa








Ethiopia shares a foresightful edge with S Sudan and cross-border raids are not rare. Hours astern word of Friday's tone-beginning emerged, Chancellor Hailemariam Desalegn aforesaid the regime had requested permit from S Sudan to embark its dominion to follow the attackers. The Southward Sudanese embassador to Ethiopia too aforesaid his commonwealth was "cooperating and portion" the Ethiopian army to hunt the raiders and deliver the abducted children.

Ethiopia's postulation to accede S Sudanese soil seems to get been sanctioned speedily. Earlier S Sudan's civic war began in 2013, roast protection operations 'tween the two countries were green as communities on both sides of the edge were much knotty in cows raids. Residents of Gambella township held a manifestation on Thursday demanding "jurist for what happened" and vocation for punter certificate.

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Demonstrators in Gambella held placards importunity the politics to economize the children



A fuss whose hubby was killed and ternary of her children abducted by the attackers sooner told the BBC that she had no trust of eyesight her children again. "I don't recognise if they were killed during the crossfire," Chol Malual aforesaid. "The fight was vivid and if they survived, they testament be belike be killed by the Murles." The targets of the foray were members of the Nuer ethnos who exist in both S Sudan and Ethiopia, the AFP tidings authority reports.



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