Hundreds of Mothers in Somalia Protest and demand whereabouts of Youth Sent to Eritrea for Military training

A large number of mothers gathered on the main streets of Mogadishu on Thursday, demanding the Federal Government to explain the whereabouts of their sons who were sent to Eritrea for military training.

The mothers said that their children’s fate remains unknown since clashes between rebel forces and the Ethiopian military started in the northern Tigray region last year. They said thay Somalia government declined to give them information about their children.

According to a UN Special report on the human rights situation in Eritrea, the Somali trainees were picked from their camps and taken to the battlefield in Tigray. The report adds credence to various allegations that President Mohamed Farmaajo, who is a member of a Horn of Africa alliance bringing together Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea’s strong man Isaias Afwerki, okayed the deployment of the troops to Eritrea.