An obscure 'small war' in WW2

[davidbfpo]

This snippet came as a surprise, with my emphasis:

The last Italian troops in East Africa were defeated at the Battle of Gondar in November 1941. But several thousand escaped to wage a guerrilla war until September 1943, when Italy surrendered to the Allies.

Link:http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-it...africa-in-1941

That is very curious. I expect the guerilla war was in the former Italian colonies, Eritrea and Somaliland. Stewart's book refers to locally recruited soldiers from both and perhaps the local population were not actively hostile to their continuing presence.