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NEWS ARCHIVE
APRIL 2001
April 19, 2001
Student demonstrations in Ethiopia spearheaded by the heroic students of Addis Ababa University and other colleges and universities is expanding into high schools and developing into a riot threatening the very existence of the dictatorial regime in Addis Ababa.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 19, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Thirty-nine students were killed and about 250 wounded in clashes with police during rioting Wednesday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, medical sources said Thursday.
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SOURCE: Reuters
April 19, 2001
The opposition Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP) released an urgent appeal on Thursday, which said that EDP member Tewfid Lalle had been killed, and executive committee member Tamirat Tarekegn arrested, along with 40 other EDP members.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 19, 2001
Authorities in Ethiopia have closed the country's main university indefinitely after two days of deadly clashes between students and police. At least 24 people were killed in in the unrest. Uduak Amimo has the story from our east Africa bureau in Nairobi.
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SOURCE: VOA
April 19, 2001
The Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, was reported quiet with businesses and shops beginning to reopen, local sources told IRIN. "Law and order have been restored," security sources in the city said. However, diplomatic sources confirmed that there had been a large number of arrests on Wednesday night.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 19, 2001
Hospital doctors say at least 39 people were killed and more than 250 people were injured on the second day of violent clashes in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 19, 2001
At least 38 people were killed and 252 were wounded in clashes here this week between secondary school students and security forces, hospital sources said Thursday.
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SOURCE: AFP
April 19, 2001
NAIROBI, 19 April (IRIN) - At least 38 people were killed and 252 wounded in clashes this week in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, hospital figures have revealed.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 19, 2001
Two days of rioting in connection with peaceful demonstrations over the past ten days by students of Addis Ababa University to press for academic freedom Wednesday resulted in the indefinite closure of the university and at least 10 confirmed deaths.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 19, 2001
Petros Tesfagiorgis Beatai has done all of us a great favor in writing his article, “The Cultural Revival of Eritrea Opens-up a Wide Space for Free Discussion and is thus the Life-line of Democratic Development” (Visafric April 18).
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SOURCE: Visafric
April 19, 2001
The head of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) on Wednesday announced the formal establishment of a Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) in the disputed border region.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 19, 2001
The UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) announced Wednesday the establishment of a buffer zone between the former warring neighbours in the Horn of Africa, describing the development as a "milestone" in the peace process.
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SOURCE: The Times Of India
April 19, 2001
On 18 June 2000, Ethiopia and Eritrea committed themselves in Algiers to an immediate cessation of the hostilities, the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission, the creation of a Military Coordination Commission (MCC) and the establishment of a Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) in order to create a "climate of calm and confidence" and "conditions conducive to a comprehensive and lasting settlement of the conflict."
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SOURCE: UNMEE
April 19, 2001
Eritrea and Yemen today, 18 April, in Asmara signed an agreement on trade, transport and maritime issues, economic and technical sectors which will help both countries to undertake joint cooperation programmes in future.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 19, 2001
Somali Foreign Minister Isma'il Mahmud Hurre has viewed a meeting between Sudanese officials and oppositionist Warlord Husayn Aydid [chairman of the Somali National Reconciliation Council] as an unacceptable interference in Somalia's internal affairs and a violation of diplomatic norms.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 19, 2001
Nurudin Farah, the Somali novelist renowned throughout the world, has strongly criticized the Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, accusing him of obstructing the peace efforts of the [Somali] transitional government.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 18, 2001
The zone will be patrolled by UN peacekeepers
The United Nations has said a buffer zone between the former warring neighbours in the Horn of Africa has now been officially established.
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April 18, 2001
UNITED NATIONS, April 18 (Reuters) - The U.N. special envoy for Ethiopia and Eritrea, in a major step forward for a delicate peace process, formally created a buffer zone on Wednesday between the Horn of Africa neighbors who last year ended a two-year border war.
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SOURCE: Reuters
April 18, 2001
The government in Ethiopia has closed the University in the capital Addis Ababa indefinitely following two days of clashes in the city.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 18, 2001
Many protesters were beaten on Tuesday
Thousands of young demonstrators have clashed with police in a second day of rioting in the capital, Addis Ababa.
Full Report SOURCE: BBC
April 18, 2001
On 18 June 2000, Ethiopia and Eritrea committed themselves in Algiers to an immediate cessation of the hostilities, the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission, the creation of a Military Coordination Commission (MCC) and the establishment of a Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) in order to create a "climate of calm and confidence" and "conditions conducive to a comprehensive and lasting settlement of the conflict."
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SOURCE: United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
April 18, 2001
Police were ordered by the Ministry of Education to enter Addis Ababa university on Wednesday, after the ministry ordered students to stop staging protests. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the ministry detailed the ultimatum.
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 18, 2001
Ethiopian police "special forces" confronted rioters in central Addis Ababa on Tuesday, and beat demonstrators supporting a student protest. A BBC journalist at the scene said police were "brutal" and "merciless" in their treatment of the demonstrators, and that they had also destroyed media recording equipment.
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 18, 2001
Businesses and shops closed in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, as confrontation escalated between Ethiopian security forces and groups of students and demonstrators.
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 18, 2001
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Thousands of students clashed with police in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday in a second day of rioting, which has reportedly left two dead and dozens more injured.
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SOURCE: Reuters
April 18, 2001
Ignoring stern warnings from the authorities, students of Ethiopia's Addis Ababa University Tuesday continued their week-long class boycott, insisting that police must vacate the main campus.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 18, 2001
The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) today signed an agreement with the Government of Eritrea outlining the rules of interaction between UN peacekeepers and law enforcement and security elements represented by police and militia in the future Temporary Security Zone (TSZ).
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SOURCE: UNMEE
April 18, 2001
Eritrea said on Tuesday that it had completed the withdrawal of its forces from the disputed border region with Ethiopia. In a statement, the Eritrean Commission for Coordination with the UN peacekeeping mission said the Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) had completed the rearrangement of their positions to beyond the northern line of the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ).
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 18, 2001
The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has signed a protocol agreement with Eritrea outlining "rules of interaction" between UN peacekeepers and Eritrean security personnel in the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ).
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 18, 2001
The United Nations peacekeeping operation in Eritrea and Ethiopia today officially established a Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) along the countries' common border, representing a "milestone" in the resolution of the conflict between the two East African States, according to the head of the UN mission.
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 18, 2001
Eritrea says it has pulled its forces out of the buffer zone along the border with Ethiopia. V-O-A's Scott Stearns reports the move completes the establishment of a U-N security zone separating armies that fought for more than two-years.
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SOURCE: VOA
April 18, 2001
Sudan's council of ministers Monday endorsed a number of accords for the consolidation of economic co-operation between Sudan and Ethiopia.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 17, 2001
Rome, Apr 17, 2001 (World Food Program/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX)-- This report includes: (A) Global Resourcing status for EMOPs, PRROs and SOs (B) Burundi (C) Angola (D) Chad (E) Sierra Leone (F) Djibouti (G) Laos
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SOURCE: World Food Program/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX
April 17, 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 17, 2001
Students were told to present complaints in a proper and legal manner, after clashes between police and students in the Addis Ababa campus.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 17, 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: UN-IRIN
April 17, 2001
The Untied States has called on Ethiopia and Eritrea to end their dispute over a buffer zone they agreed on last December to end their two-year border war.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 17, 2001
Addis Ababa, 16 April: The meeting between W/o [Ms] Genet Zewde, the minister of education, and students of the Addis Ababa University [AAU] aimed at resolving [the] students' grievances, ended inconclusively today as the students decided to continue with their class boycotts until the police withdrew from the university campus.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
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