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NEWS ARCHIVE
APRIL 2001
April 30, 2001
The Oromia Youth Association condemns the brutal repression of peaceful university and high school demonstrators in Ethiopia during the recent riot.
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SOURCE: Oromia Youth Association
April 30, 2001
Hundreds of police entered the Addis Ababa University campus on Monday to break up a student meeting called to discuss a return to class.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 30, 2001
Ethiopia would not press for extradition of five hijackers who Thursday forced its military transport plane from a domestic flight to land in Khartoum, Sudan.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 30, 2001
Ethiopia and Sudan on Monday marked a major step forward in their rapprochment, playing down a row over the extradition of Ethiopian hijackers, voicing a common position on the peace process in Somalia and mooting free trade deals.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 30, 2001
Ethiopia and Sudan have moved to defuse a diplomatic row over the extradition of Ethiopians who hijacked a plane to Khartoum last week.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 30, 2001
The Foreign Ministry admitted today that it had allowed exports of weapons which were seized by Bulgarian authorities on route from the Czech Republic to Eritrea, northern Africa.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
April 30, 2001
A quarter of the Eritrean population face serious food shortages unless emergency assistance reached them soon, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on 27 April.
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 30, 2001
SOFIA, Apr 30, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Bulgarian authorities have stopped a Ukrainian aircraft carrying 30 tons of armaments and headed for Eritrea, still subject to a UN embargo on military supplies, Bulgarian television reported Sunday.
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SOURCE: Russia Today
April 30, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Five people who hijacked an Ethiopian military plane to Sudan will be tried in Khartoum rather than be handed over to Ethiopia, Sudan's foreign minister said Monday.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
April 30, 2001
Students in all Ethiopian colleges and universities were required to get down to business Monday after the government announced it had conceded to their demand.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 30, 2001
The United Nations is on standby to supervise the return of as many as 1.3 million people uprooted from their homes by a border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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SOURCE: AFP
April 30, 2001
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia yesterday asked Sudan to hand over five officer cadets who hijacked an Ethiopian military plane and diverted it to Khartoum, and appeared undeterred by Khartoum's refusal to do so.
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SOURCE: Irish Times
April 30, 2001
Apr 30, 2001 (AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION via COMTEX) -- With the Ethiopian hijacking crisis over, the pilot of the attacked aircraft has told how the hijackers pretended that one of them was sick and threatened to blow up the aircraft.
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SOURCE: M2 Communications Ltd.
April 29, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- The young soldier was trying to convince his mother that Ethiopia's 2 1/2-year border war with Eritrea was really over and that he would be safe returning to his post. But the mother, Alemitu Belayneh, just sat and sobbed. Moments earlier, a neighbor and two officials had come to her door with the news that her older son, Kifle Ghirma, had been killed in action on the Zalembessa front, site of heavy fighting last May.
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SOURCE: CNN
April 29, 2001
The crew of an Ethiopian Air Force plane that was hijacked to Sudan flew the aircraft and passengers home to Ethiopia today, ending a two-day ordeal in which no one was injured.
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SOURCE: The Toronto Star
April 29, 2001
The Sudanese government is to hold limited talks with the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa next month, the Egyptian news agency MENA reported on Sunday.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
April 28, 2001
Authorities in Addis Ababa have identified five Ethiopians who hijacked a military plane with 51 people aboard and forced it to land in Khartoum, in Sudan.
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SOURCE: ABC News
April 28, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Former hostages on an Ethiopian military plane have told of their fear at being hijacked to Sudan.
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SOURCE: CNN
April 28, 2001
The pilot of a hijacked Ethiopian plane told on Saturday how the hijackers had pulled the pin from a grenade and threatened to blow up the aircraft, after one feigned illness to trick her way into his cockpit.
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SOURCE: Reuters
April 28, 2001
Hijackers with hand grenades and pistols seized an Ethiopian air force plane over Ethiopia carrying at least 50 passengers and diverted it to Khartoum. The attackers released all their hostages hours later and surrendered early yesterday, officials said.
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SOURCE: The Daily Star
April 28, 2001
The Ethiopian military plane that was hijacked on Thursday left Khartoum Saturday with all 50 passengers on board, Kamal Yagoub, Sudan's director of aviation said in Khartoum.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 28, 2001
Fifty-one hostages held at gun-point when an Ethiopian plane was hijacked and forced to land in Khartoum on Thursday night have arrived back in Addis Ababa.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 28, 2001
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail has left for Ethiopia, officials said Saturday, amid reports he will discuss the fate of five hijackers of an Ethiopian military plane who are in Sudanese custody.
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SOURCE: AFP
April 28, 2001
The hijacking of an Ethiopian military aircraft by five military academy students ended peacefully in the Sudan capital, Khartoum, at 0400 local time on Friday, official Sudanese radio reported on the same day. The aircraft was on an internal flight, carrying 50 passengers and crew, when it was hijacked on Thursday. It landed at Khartoum airport at 1820 local time, the radio said. The hijackers were armed with guns and hand grenades, and demanded to meet the British and US ambassadors in Khartoum.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 28, 2001
Security forces have continued to arrest and detain opposition leaders and political activists in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Security sources told IRIN on Friday that police were known to have made more arrests on Thursday, including late night house arrests. The whereabouts of more than 40 opposition politicians arrested during widespread riots and demonstrations last week were still unknown, the source said
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 28, 2001
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said that Ethiopia could forge ahead with building up a democratic order once the rift in his party, the TPLF, was solved. Meles said the ruling coalition government of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) had set out to "rectify its mistakes and speed up the development activities in the country", the official Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) said on Tuesday April.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 28, 2001
The official spokesman of the government has issued the following press release: The official spokesman of the government wishes to confirm that what has been reported by some news agencies that Sudan had refused to extradite the hijackers [of an Ethiopian military plan] was not true and there were no problems between Sudan and Ethiopia regarding this matter. The problem is being solved with understanding and according to the good relations binding the two fraternal states.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
April 27, 2001
President Isayas Afewerki today left for Italy after concluding a two-day official visit to The Netherlands. President Isayas yesterday held talks with the secretary-general of the Dutch Ministry of Defence, D J Bars [phonetic], in The Hague. President Isayas hailed The Netherlands for its contribution in the UN peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
April 27, 2001
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a multi-million dollar appeal to provide emergency relief food to hundreds of thousands of Eritreans whose lives have been devastated by three successive years of drought and consequent crop failure
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SOURCE: United Nations
April 27, 2001
Ethiopia says it wants to extradite five air force trainees who hijacked a military plane to Sudan, but Sudanese officials say they have given their word the hijackers won't be sent home.
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SOURCE: Dow Jones
April 27, 2001
African heads of state Friday pledged to allocate 15 percent of their annual budgets for healthcare and lift all tariff barriers for AIDS-related programs just before the first African Summit on HIV/AIDS concluded in Nigeria's capital Abuja.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
April 27, 2001
Ethiopia expressed its determination here Friday to bring to justice the five hijackers, who diverted an Ethiopian military plane to Sudan on Thursday.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
April 27, 2001
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a multi-million dollar appeal for emergency relief food to hundreds of thousands of Eritreans facing starvation from three successive years of drought and consequent crop failure.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 27, 2001
"We are not going to send them home," Sudanese Information Minister Ghazi Salaheddine Atabani told a press conference, adding that they would receive a fair trial in Sudan with lawyers of their choice.
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SOURCE: City Press SA
April 27, 2001
Addis Ababa on Friday asked Sudan to hand over five officer cadets who hijacked an Ethiopian military plane and diverted it to Khartoum, and appeared undeterred by Khartoum's refusal to do so.
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SOURCE: AFP
April 27, 2001
The World Food Program (WFP) on Friday appealed for $33 million in emergency food aid for almost a quarter of the Eritrean population left at risk of starvation by severe drought and crop failure.
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SOURCE: CNN
April 27, 2001
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) Five Ethiopians who hijacked an Ethiopian air force plane surrendered Friday in neighboring Sudan after receiving assurances they would not be sent back home.
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SOURCE: AP
April 27, 2001
Hijackers who forced an Ethiopian military plane to fly to Sudan, have surrendered and freed all their hostages.
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SOURCE: Sky News
April 27, 2001
Hijackers who forced an Ethiopian military plane to fly to Sudan, have surrendered and freed all their hostages.
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SOURCE: CNN
April 27, 2001
Ethiopian Special Forces police opened fire on a peaceful protest organised by students at Addis Ababa University (AAU) on April 18, killing at least 41 people and wounding 250.
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SOURCE: WSWS
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