Without giving substantive evidence, Abdisalam Guled, who served as the deputy chief of National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA], said Somalia has borne the brunt of the Tigray war, based on his 'investigations and correspondences" with senior Ethiopian security officers.
According to him, the soldiers from Somalia who have been killed in the Tigray war, are aged between 20-30 years and were fighting alongside the Ethiopian National Defense Forces, who launched an operation in the Tigray region following an attack by TPLF on the Northern Command.
The former spy chief further alleges that the youthful soldiers were picked from Mogadishu secretly without the knowledge of their families and flow to Asmara for training last year. Since then, the youths didn't return to the country, and their parents were in shock for not seeing their children again.
Source: https://www.garoweonline.com/en/news/so ... ray-region