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| Kenyan officers deny abducting Ethiopian ONLF rebels | Kenyan officers deny abducting Ethiopian ONLF rebels |
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| Two Kenyan police officers have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping two Ethiopian rebels in the capital, Nairobi. | Two Kenyan police officers have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping two Ethiopian rebels in the capital, Nairobi. |
| Painito Bera Ng'ang'ai and James Ngaparini are alleged to have driven to the Ethiopian border and handed them over to Ethiopian officials. | Painito Bera Ng'ang'ai and James Ngaparini are alleged to have driven to the Ethiopian border and handed them over to Ethiopian officials. |
| The abducted men are from a splinter group of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), fighting for independence for the Somali-speaking Ogaden region. | The abducted men are from a splinter group of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), fighting for independence for the Somali-speaking Ogaden region. |
| They were in Kenya to facilitate peace talks with the Ethiopian government. | They were in Kenya to facilitate peace talks with the Ethiopian government. |
| Correspondents say their abduction on 26 January is threatening to scupper the next round of talks. | Correspondents say their abduction on 26 January is threatening to scupper the next round of talks. |
| Sulub Abdi Ahmed and Ali Ahmed Hussein are senior negotiators for the ONLF in the talks being brokered by the Kenyan government. | |
| The ONLF told the BBC Somali Service that it believed the Ethiopian government was behind their kidnapping. | |
| But Abdinur Abdullahi Farah, a security adviser to the president of the Somali region, as the Ogaden is officially known, told US VOA radio that the men had given themselves up voluntarily. | |
| Rebels in the Ogaden region have been fighting for independence since the 1970s and the ONLF has been at the forefront of the fight since it was founded in 1984. | |
| The Ogaden is an ethnic Somali part of Ethiopia. | |
| One ONLF faction has signed a peace deal with the government, but another has continued to fight the army. |