Somalia: SNA recruits fought in Tigray - UN report

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Somalia: SNA recruits fought in Tigray - UN report

ASMARA (HORN OBSERVER) - United Nations (UN) has said hundreds of Somali youths who were taken to Eretria for training had fought alongside Ethiopian forces in Tigray region.

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ASMARA (HORN OBSERVER) - United Nations (UN) has said hundreds of Somali youths who were taken to Eretria for training had fought alongside Ethiopian forces in Tigray region.

The UN Rapporteur report on the human rights situation in Eritrea said that Somali fighters were present around Aksum.

"The Special Rapporteur also received information and reports that Somali soldiers were moved from military training camps in Eritrea to the front line in Tigray, where they accompanied Eritrean troops as they crossed the Ethiopian border,” the report read in part.

The UN report support to various allegations that President Mohamed Farmaajo has okayed the deployment of the troops to Eritrea.

"The conflict in Tigray has deepened ethnic tensions and created an immense humanitarian crisis, with 4.5 million people – most of Tigray’s population – in urgent need of assistance, the rapporteur said.

The report comes barely four months after teary-eyed parents accused Somali government of deploying soldiers in Tigray region to take part in the Tigray conflict.

The allegations by the parents were supported by Abdisalam Guled, former deputy spy chief in Somalia who claimed that several hundreds of Somali soldiers had been killed in the ongoing battle in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

He called for an independent investigation into the alleged participation and killing of Somali trainee soldiers in the Tigray battle.

Somali government had distanced itself from the accusations, saying Ethiopia did not request troops or assistance for Somalia.