From EPPF Chairman

On behalf of the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF), an organization that is fighting for freedom and democratic governance in Ethiopia , I would like to offer my sincere congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama for being elected the 44th President of the United State of America . More on EPPF chairman congratulates President-Elect Obama

MOGADHISHU (Reuters) – Somalis expressed hope on Thursday that Barack Obama’s election to the U.S. presidency would help end anarchy in the Horn of Africa nation which Washington views as an important front in its ‘war on terror’.

Somalia has suffered 17 years of civil conflict, the latest manifestation a two-year Islamist insurgency against the Western-backed government and its Ethiopian military allies.