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by Daily Maverick / Ryan Cummings

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Less than a week after the US government issued a travel warning for Ethiopia, the East African country’s National Intelligence service claimed to have arrested 25 suspected terrorists during a security operation conducted in its south-west. Government spokesman Shimeles Kemal stated that those detained had been trained by the al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia and were planning a series of attacks in the city of Jimma, located some 300km south west of the capital, Addis Ababa, where the arrests were made. Kemal further stated that “a number of weapons” were also seized during the security sweep.

Available: http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-06-12-al-shabaab-how-much-of-a-threat-to-south-africa/#.U5qJyHa3kvE 

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