Ethiopian PM Reveals Where Terrorists Get Funding From
Hailemariam Desalegn, the visiting
Prime Minister of Ethiopia on
Wednesday said members of the radical
Islamist sect, Boko Haram operating in
Nigeria as well as the Al-Shabab
operating in East Africa, get their
funding from outside Africa.
Boko Haram members
The envoy, who is on a two-day visit to
Nigeria, made this known while speaking at a
joint press conference with President
Goodluck Jonathan in State House, Abuja.
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According to him, terrorists resorted to suicide
bombing because the government was
winning the fight against insurgency. He
stressed the need for leaders whose countries
have been worse hit to cooperate to fight
insurgency, adding that for the past 10 years
the East African region had been fighting
terrorism but needed more efforts in order to
completely flush out terrorism from on African
continent.
"You know terrorism is not African agenda
only. There has been terror attack in Boston,
United States and many parts of the globe.
So, it is not something that is new to Nigeria,
Ethiopia and other African countries. It is a
global phenomenon and you see that there
was terror attack in Iraq recently and is
expanding. We have to see it as a global
phenomenon that has to be tackled together
in unison. It should not be left to this or that
region or this or that country. We have to
bear in mind the genesis of this terrorism"
Desalegn said.
The Ethiopian leader Nigeria and his country
had reached an agreement on the fight
against terror with the countries' chiefs of
staff working on the modalities.
"We are working as one with Kenya to fight
this terrorism and the chiefs of staff are in
Nairobi, discussing how to fight this issue as
we speak" he said.
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Responding, President Jonathan pointed out
that Ethiopia had a longer history of terrorism
when compared to us, and hinted that Nigeria
had a lot to learn from the East African
country's experience.
Jonathan and Desalegn agreed that both
countries would continue to exchange high
level visits in order to promote and deepen
mutual understanding as well as the
cooperation that would bring permanent
solution to the lingering war of terrorism in
the African continent.
Meanwhile, this week Nigeria has been under
massive attacks from unidentified gunmen
and suspected sect members. in southern
Kaduna, the country capital Abuja, the
troubled Borno as well as Adamawa states.
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