Ethiopia, Kenya to restore security at common border

By Kenyan newspaper The Daily Nation

NAIROBI, June 4, 2005 — Ethiopia is to restore peace on the border, where its rebels have killed a number of Kenyans, a meeting resolved on Thursday 2 June.

The truce meeting, attended by government security teams from both sides, was told that 29 suspected rebels had been arrested and charged.

The delegates, at Forolle in Kenya, were told that Ethiopia’s security forces had recovered 1,124 goats and 55 camels.

They were some of the 10,780 animals the rebels — believed to be members of the Ethiopia’s Oromo Liberation Front — had stolen from Kenya.

Marsabit District Commissioner Muthui Katee, who led the Kenyan delegation, said the Ethiopians had admitted they had identified the raiders’ homes.

“They are now hunting them and the rest of the stolen livestock,” he told the Nation on telephone yesterday.

He said arrangements were being made to hand over the animals to Kenyan authorities today.