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The Al-Shabab extremist group has exploited Ethiopia’s internal turmoil to cross the border from neighbouring Somalia in unprecedented attacks in recent weeks that a top US military commander has warned could continue. The deadly incursions into Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country and long seen as an anchor of security in the Horn of Africa, are the latest sign of how deeply the recent war in the northern Tigray region and other ethnic fighting have made the country more vulnerable. Ethiopia has long resisted such cross-border attacks by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab, in part by de…