ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's intelligence agency said on Monday it had detained eight members of Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist militant group who it accused of plotting to kidnap U.N. workers.
The arrests were the latest in a crackdown on people accused of having links to militants in neighbouring Somalia, where Ethiopia has deployed troops to support Mogadishu's battle with al Shabaab and its six-year insurgency.
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