Formers Members of Radical Somali Group Give Details of Their Group 

Mogadishu -- Somalis tell VOA that during the Islamist's six-month rule from the capital Mogadishu, a mere glimpse of a Shabbab member wearing the tell-tale, red-and-white scarf around the head or neck, caused ordinary people to flee in terror.

An Eritrean army colonel among the foreigner terrorists captured in Kenya

Four of the people arrested are Kenyan Somalis recruited into the Islamic militia and three of them Eritreans, including an army colonel, the official said in the northeastern town of Garissa. He did not give details about the other two foreigners arrested Saturday.

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Mr. Ibrahim Osman Hamid, an official in the Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has abandoned the PFDJ government and sought political asylum in the United Kingdom. Since 2003 and until his defection, he was a member of the Secretariat of the Eritrean delegation which had been hosting peace negotiations between the Government of Sudan and the Eastern Front, a Sudanese opposition group.

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ERI-TV suffers another loss with more journalists defecting

Eritrea’s Ministry of Information loses yet another key member from its television crew, adding yet another blow to the country’s shortage of skilled journalists. Biniam Simon, one of ERI-TV’s veteran editors and graphic designer, has abandoned the regime as he failed to report back to work after a four month long training in Japan that ended in mid December.