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NEWS ARCHIVE
APRIL 2001
April 26, 2001
ADDIS ABABA Shocked Ethiopians are struggling to come to terms with the bloodiest civil unrest in a decade in sub-Saharan Africa's second-most populous country.
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SOURCE: Business Day
April 26, 2001
Ethiopia's prime minister Meles Zenawi on Wednesday concluded a visit to Saudi Arabia which lasted for three days during which he held talks with high ranking Saudi officials dealt with bilateral relations between the two countries and means of strengthening them and current conditions on the Arab and international arenas.
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SOURCE: Arabic News
April 26, 2001
The hijackers of an Ethiopian plane have released all five children and six women aboard the aircraft which was carrying 50 people, Sudan's Information Minister says.
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SOURCE: ABC Online News - International
April 26, 2001
Nine university students armed with hand grenades and pistols seized an Ethiopian plane with at least 50 passengers on board and diverted it to Khartoum today, state-run Sudan television reported.
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SOURCE: ninemsn
April 26, 2001
ADDIS ABABA - Negotiators were trying to persuade Ethiopian hijackers to release dozens of hostages early on Friday after they seized a military plane and flew to neighboring Sudan, officials said
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SOURCE: Reuters
April 26, 2001
Text of telephone interview with Sudanese Information Minister Ghazi Salah-al-Din in Khartoum by presenter Adnan Al-Sharif in Doha; broadcast live by Qatari Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 26 April
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SOURCE: nAl-Jazeera TV - Doha
April 26, 2001
A hijacked Ethiopian transport plane has landed in neighboring Sudan.
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SOURCE: Voa News
April 26, 2001
The hijackers of an Ethiopian military plane forced to fly to the Sudanese capital Khartoum have released 11 women and children
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SOURCE: Voa News
April 26, 2001
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- An Ethiopian plane has been hijacked and ordered to land in Sudan, according to state-run Sudan television.
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SOURCE: CNN
April 26, 2001
More than 2,000 Ethiopian university students were released from police custody on Thursday.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 26, 2001
A high-level United States military delegation paid a one day visit to Eritrea and Ethiopia on Tuesday.
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 25, 2001
Ethiopia's main university has re-opened after a week of student riots that left 41 people dead. But as Uduak Amimo reports, the students are so far refusing to return to classes.
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SOURCE: VOA
April 25, 2001
With AK-47s selling for 100 dollars and tank-destroying grenade launchers going for just twice that, the sea of arms in the Horn of Africa is a serious threat to the region's stability and development.
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SOURCE: AFP
April 25, 2001
The Federal Police Crime Prevention Department accused the Ethiopian Human Right Council (EHRCO) and some political parties Sunday of instigating students to riot and being involved in the riots.
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SOURCE: The Reporter
April 25, 2001
The European Union (EU) has hailed the establishment of a temporary security zone between Ethiopia and Eritrea, describing the development as "a watershed" in the implementation of the peace agreement between the two countries.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 25, 2001
Canadian Forces serving with the United Nations have been pushing their LAV IIIs, some straight from the factory as hard as they can and have been pleasantly surprised by the results.
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SOURCE: Defense Systems Daily
April 25, 2001
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian students stayed away from classes for a second day on Wednesday to press their demands for the release of fellow students arrested during violent riots last week.
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SOURCE: Reuters
April 25, 2001
AShocked Ethiopians are struggling to come to terms with the bloodiest civil unrest in a decade in sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous country.
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SOURCE: Yahoo
April 25, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, (UPI) -- Ethiopian authorities reopened the University of Addis Ababa after last week's disturbances in which 39 people were killed and 250 injured, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Tuesday.
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SOURCE: Virtual New York
April 25, 2001
Most of Addis Ababa University students who were called upon to get registered and resume classes that were interrupted due to the recent protests said yesterday that they wouldn't resume classes unless their demands are fully met. The statement released by the Ministry of Education Monday stated that apart from students who are suspected of crimes, others must get registered on the 23 and 24 of April.
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SOURCE: The Reporter
April 24, 2001
Few students have shown up as Ethiopia's Addis Ababa University reopened, a week after bloody riots left 41 people dead
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SOURCE: VOA News
April 24, 2001
President Isayas Afewerki today met and held talks with the US Deputy Chief of Staff Gen Richard B. Myers at the Denden Club.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 24, 2001
In his briefing to the UN Security Council on 19 April, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno said a committee had been established to provide humanitarian assistance to returning civilians in the newly established buffer zone on the disputed Ethiopian-Eritrean border.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 24, 2001
The Eritrean government has urged the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) to make Ethiopia withdraw troops immediately from the newly established buffer zone on the disputed border.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 24, 2001
Ethiopian students demanding academic freedom said on Tuesday they would not return to classes until fellow students arrested during bloody riots last week were freed and campus reforms implemented.
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SOURCE: CNN
April 24, 2001
A total of 2,300 people, mostly university students, are currently detained at Sendafa Police College, 38 kilometers northeast of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, the local media reported on Monday.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
April 24, 2001
Alemaya University students had allegedly boycotted classes last Friday after authorities refused to allow them stage a rally in the city of Harar, it was learnt.
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SOURCE: allAfrica.com
April 24, 2001
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, leading a high-level Ethiopian delegation, left for Saudi Arabia yesterday to pay a three-day official visit to that country at the invitation of King Fahd Bin-Abd-al-Aziz.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 24, 2001
The fifty-second volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations 1998 has been published by the Department of Public Information. This 1,500-page reference work covers all major activities of the United Nations system in 1998.
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SOURCE: M2 Communications Ltd.
April 23, 2001
Ethiopia's prime minister Malas Zenawi will visit Saudi Arabia today marking the beginning of a tour in the Gulf region.
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SOURCE: Arabic News
April 23, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, April 23 - A senior Ethiopian government official on Monday blamed Addis Ababa's worst unrest in years on jobless youths and gangsters he said had taken advantage of student unrest to launch an orgy of theft and destruction.
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SOURCE: Reuters
April 23, 2001
A four-day conference on how to limit the circulation of illegal light weapons is getting underway in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 23, 2001
In a briefing to the UN Security Council, the Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno, said there had been significant progress in the Ethiopia-Eritrea peace process. On 18 April the establishment of the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) had been announced, which marked the formal separation of the forces of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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SOURCE: TSZ
April 23, 2001
Hundreds of people have reportedly been arrested and are being detained incommunicado following the riots in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, the international human rights organisation, Amnesty International, said on 20 April.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 23, 2001
The Ministry of Education has said that Addis Ababa University, scene of demonstrations and riots last week, would reopen on 24 April. The government declared the university closed "indefinitely" last week, but had decided to reopen it now that calm had been restored, official Ethiopian radio said on 22 April.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 23, 2001
Ethiopia has warned that it considers the a recent protocol agreement signed between the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and the Eritrean government a violation of the peace agreement.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 23, 2001
This is to inform you that we, students of Addis Ababa University (AAU), are in grave danger. Some of the students, after being forced to leave the campus, took shelter in churches found in Addis Ababa, 'Kideste Mariam', 'St. Markos' etc. Since then, they have been seriously assaulted and have been taken to detention places.
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SOURCE: allAfrica.com
April 23, 2001
Daily protests began peacefully on campus April 11 against certain university policies. Unfortunately, the situation changed when police stormed the campus April 17 and beat numerous students, at least 50 of whom were hospitalized.
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SOURCE: U.S. Department Of State
April 23, 2001
Ethiopia has rejected a recent protocol agreement between Eritrea and the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) providing for the return of Eritrean militia and police to the border area, official sources said.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 23, 2001
Ethiopia has refuted the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea's (UNMEE) allegations that Addis Ababa did not communicate its full redeployment plans along its border with Eritrea.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 22, 2001
Derartu Tulu crosses the line at The Mall
Olympic 10,000m champion Derartu Tulu stormed to victory in the women's race at the London Marathon.
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April 22, 2001
Following are the results at the 21st London Marathon on Sunday:
Men's race:
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
April 22, 2001
Ethiopia on Sunday accused neighboring Eritrea of deploying regular army units disguised as militiamen in a buffer zone in violation of U.N.-backed efforts to end their 1998-2000 war.
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SOURCE: CNN
April 21, 2001
Hundreds of relatives are waiting anxiously for news
The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (Erco) has denied that that thousands of students being held in detention camps after last week's riots in Addis Ababa had any role in the violence.
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April 20, 2001
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's human rights watchdog condemned the country's security forces on Saturday for the way they dealt with this week's riots in which 41 people died.
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SOURCE:
Reuters
April 20, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The death toll from two days of street demonstrations apparently sparked by a weeklong student protest to demand greater academic freedom has risen to 41, hospital officials said on Friday.
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SOURCE:
The Times Of India
April 21, 2001
The prime minister of the Somali transitional government, Ali Khalif Galayr, has pointed out that his government would confront the Ethiopian aggression against Somalia at whatever cost, even if it involved seeking support from close friends.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
April 21, 2001
A 35-man Sudanese high-level delegation led by the president of Gedaref State, Prof Al Amin [second name indistinct], today arrived in Bahir Dar [northeastern Ethiopia] to attend the second Ethiopia-Sudan joint border commission meeting. Hirut Mengste has the details.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
April 20, 2001
Vehicles were burned and shops looted during the violence
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The Ethiopian government has blamed opposition groups for taking advantage of student protests which have left at least 24 people dead.
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April 20, 2001
Following reports of violent clashes between university students and the Ethiopian security forces, Foreign Office Minister Brian Wilson said today: "The UK Government is extremely concerned about reports that clashes between students and Ethiopian Security Forces in Addis Ababa have resulted in a number of deaths.
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SOURCE: M2 Communications Ltd.
April 20, 2001
ETHIOPIAN POLICE killed 39 students and wounded 250 in riots on Wednesday in Addis Ababa, medical sources said yesterday. Police fired when students stoned state offices, torched cars and looted shops in a second day of protests over academic and political rights, and police brutality.
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SOURCE: The Independent - United Kingdom
April 20, 2001
The United States remains committed to the success of the Ethiopian- Eritrean peace process and is encouraged by the progress that has been made thus far.
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SOURCE: U.S. Department Of State
April 20, 2001
Ethiopian authorities have arrested more than 40 opposition party members and rounded up hundreds of students after riots this week that killed 41 people.
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SOURCE: THE IRISH TIMES
April 20, 2001
Thousands of Ethiopian high school pupils have joined university students in a political protest, which has closed schools across the region until next week.
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SOURCE: Schoolsnet
April 20, 2001
The death toll from two days of violent street demonstrations in Ethiopia has risen to 41.A doctor at Menelik Hospital in Addis Ababa said 22 bodies were brought to the hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday and two people died in hospital from injuries.
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SOURCE: Ananova
April 20, 2001
Addis Ababa, Apr 20, 2001 -- Ethiopian Democratic Party's Secretary General, Ato Lidetu Ayalew, and Organizational Affairs Director, Ato Tamrat Tarekegn, have been arrested and their whereabouts are unknown. Up to this moment, their families and colleagues could not reach them.
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SOURCE: Africa News Service
April 20, 2001
The Somali minister of information Zakaraya Haj Muhammad has criticized "Ethiopia's intervention in the internal affairs of Somalia through encouraging differences and re-arming war lords who oppose peace."
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SOURCE: Arabic News
April 20, 2001
The Ethiopian Federal High Court has found 37 people guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity in their role in the former regime of Mengistu Hailemariam.
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 20, 2001
UNMEE has signed a protocol agreement with Eritrea outlining "rules of interaction" between UN peacekeepers and Eritrean security personnel in the TSZ.
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SOURCE: IRIN
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