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Hussein Aideed visits Eritrea

    NAIROBI

    Mogadishu-based faction leaders Hussein Aideed, Osman Ali Ato and Mohamed Kanyare Afrah arrived in Asmara met with Eritrean government officials on Wednesday, according to a report posted on the Somali newspaper ‘Qaran’ web site. The faction leaders reportedly asked the Eritrean government to give them military assistance. The leaders arrived from Uganda, and were expected to proceed from Asmara to Libya. They also met General Wako Gutu, chairman of the United Oromo People’s Liberation Front, a veteran Ethiopian rebel.

    In an interview with IRIN in April 1999, Hussein Aideed said Eritrea and Uganda had provided him with some “assistance”, including military uniforms.

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