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Ethiopia has sent a large number of troops to western central Somalia bordering Kenya to fight militiamen of a Somali warlord who is reportedly arming and training Ethiopian rebels.
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Four years ago, Luc Magloire was fighting militiamen loyal to President Denis Sassou-Nguesso in gunbattles that left tens of thousands of people dead.
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Somalia has since been without a central government, and carved into faction-controlled fiefdoms protected by fighting militiamen.
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The RRA has been fighting militiamen loyal to faction leader Hussein Mohamed Aidid in the southwestern town of Baidoa and surrounding areas for the past year.