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| Ethiopia troops 'back in Somalia' | Ethiopia troops 'back in Somalia' |
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| Ethiopian military forces have crossed back into Somalia, barely three months after leaving, witnesses told the BBC. | |
| Their reported return comes as Islamist militants like al-Shabab continue to seize towns from the fragile Western-back transitional government. | Their reported return comes as Islamist militants like al-Shabab continue to seize towns from the fragile Western-back transitional government. |
| One resident said he spotted Ethiopian troops in Kalabeyr, a key junction that links southern, central and northern Somalia to the Ethiopian border. | One resident said he spotted Ethiopian troops in Kalabeyr, a key junction that links southern, central and northern Somalia to the Ethiopian border. |
| The Ethiopian army withdrew in January after UN-backed peace talks. | The Ethiopian army withdrew in January after UN-backed peace talks. |
| Its troops entered Somalia in 2006 to help oust Islamist forces from the capital Mogadishu. | |
| Kalabeyr resident Fadumo Du'ale told the BBC's Mohamed Olad Hassan on Tuesday: "They have crossed the border late last night and they are here now. They look to be stationing here." | |
| They stopped me and checked my car and then ordered me to move Farah Ahmed AdaanBus driver Ethiopia's Somalia dilemma | |
| The town lies 22km (14 miles) from the Somali-Ethiopian border. | |
| Another resident, Tabane Abdi Ali, told the BBC: "We recognize them because of their military uniform and the language they were speaking." | |
| Bus driver Farah Ahmed Adaan told our correspondent he had spotted "a lot" of Ethiopian troops with 12 military vehicles. | |
| "Some of them were digging trenches while others were guarding the whole area," he said. | |
| "They stopped me and checked my car and then ordered me to move." |