Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA)
Sheikh Adan Madobe served as the First Deputy Chairman of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), one of the factions of the Somali Civil War. According to Adan Madobe, beginning in 1996, the RRA accepted the assistance of Ethiopia in the training of its troops. In 2003, he temporarily split with his fellow RRA leader Hassan Mohamed Nur "Shatigadud" though they later reconciled and both served as ministers in the Transitional Federal Government.
Read more about this topic: Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe
Famous quotes containing the words resistance and/or army:
“High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and is first committed by, the power that makes and forever re-creates man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“An army is maintained for a thousand days all to be used on one morning.”
—Chinese proverb.