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NEWS ARCHIVE
APRIL 2001
April 16, 2001
Sool [Puntland]: Traditional leaders at Boaneh settlement of the Sool Region have driven out of the region engineers and policemen sent there by the Puntland administration for evaluating the situation to pave the way for a meeting expected to be held there by the Somali faction leaders who met in Ethiopia earlier.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 16, 2001
JOHANNESBURG, April 16 (Reuters) - South African lawyers head back to court this week to press their case that the world's most powerful drug firms are immorally keeping poor countries from cheap drugs they need to combat AIDS.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 16, 2001
President of the State of Eritrea Isayas Afewerki, member of the Presidential Council of the Community of the Sahel and Sahara states, Comessa, held today a telephone contact with the brother leader of the revolution [Al-Qadhafi], during which they reviewed issues pertaining to the African continent.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 16, 2001
The chairman of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), Col Hasan Muhammad Nur (Shatigadud), has asserted that 20 traditional leaders recently held by his organization are now detained in Xuddur [southwestern Somalia] and would be brought before justice soon.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 16, 2001
Khartoum: The Council of Ministers approved in its regular meeting, chaired by the president of the republic, Gen Umar Al-Bashir, Sunday [15 April], an agreement on commercial exchange between Sudan and Ethiopia.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 15, 2001
The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia was still raging when Noah Novogrodsky trekked to the Horn of Africa on a Yale Law School human rights fellowship.
Full Report
SOURCE: callaw.com
April 14, 2001
In a statement it issued yesterday, the OLF [Oromo Liberation Front] said that although the weyane [Ethiopian] regime was claiming that it has started demobilizing its army, in reality those who have been demobilized so far were war disabled soldiers.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 14, 2001
Baydhabo [south-central Somalia]: Reports from the Bay regional capital, Baydhabo, revealed that faction leader Husayn Muhammad Aydid is expected to arrive in the town soon.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 14, 2001
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resumed the voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees in Ethiopia on 10 April, a UNHCR statement said.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 14, 2001
The UN Peacekeeping Director for Africa, Mr. Dimitry Titov, on Tuesday met in Asmara with Mr. Andbrhan woldegiorgis,
Commissioner for Coordination with the UN Peacekeeping Mission. During his stay, Mr. Titov reviewed the work of the UN
Peacekeeping Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Full Report
SOURCE: Eritrea Profile
April 13, 2001
Oromo cultural show in Norway
Oromo artists opening the show by presenting the distinguished "TOKKUMMAA" song.
Over 250 Norwegians and other foreigners residing in Norway were present at this Oromo cultural show. The show was organized under the motto “Introducing The Oromos”. The poster that has been distributed to advertise the show served as good bait to attract the attendants.
Full Report SOURCE: Norway:Oromo community in Verdal
April 13, 2001
Acting without a vote, the General Assembly this morning added Senegal to the list
of least developed countries and, acting on the recommendations of its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), adopted 25 texts on various items on its agenda.
Full Report
SOURCE: M2 Communications Ltd.
April 13, 2001
(UN Integrated Regional Information Network/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX)-- Eight West African nations are among 43 countries heavily represented among asylum-seekers in Europe and Australia, according to statistics provided by UNHCR.
Full Report
SOURCE: IRIN
April 13, 2001
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Sudan must demonstrate that it is no longer providing sanctuary to terrorist groups before the United States will recommend lifting U.N. sanctions against the African nation, a State Department official said Friday
Full Report
SOURCE: Associated Press
April 13, 2001
BOSTON (AP) - Fatuma Roba has run five marathons on American soil and won four. So, what happened in Boston last year, when she finished third after winning the 1996 Olympic gold medal in Atlanta and then three Boston Marathons in a row?
Full Report
SOURCE: Associated Press
April 13, 2001
Reports from Boosaaso [northeastern Somalia, Puntland] town reveal that Ethiopia has massed its forces along its border with the Somali northeastern regions.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 13, 2001
The six-hour meeting between Education Minister Genet Zewde and the seven representatives of the Addis Ababa Universty students ended a few minutes ago.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 13, 2001
The sixth criminal bench of the Federal High Court has sentenced 37 defendants - accused of genocide and crimes against humanity - to up to 20 years rigorous imprisonment.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 13, 2001
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) wishes to draw the attention of the International Community to the recent widespread use of so- called " Mobile Security Courts" in Ogaden.
Full Report
SOURCE: ONLF
April 12, 2001
MOGADISHU -- The interim government of Somalia Thursday made here its first show of power by exhibiting more than 2,500 uniformed soldiers from the former Somali National Army.
Full Report
SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
April 12, 2001
NAIROBI -- Fifty students were injured as riot police broke up a protest over academic and political rights at Addis Ababa University, news agencies reported on Wednesday. Riot police reportedly forced their way into the university campus after two plain-clothes officers who had infiltrated the 4,000 striking students were discovered.
Full Report
SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 12, 2001
As U-N troops enforce a ceasefire between Eritrea and Ethiopia, Eritrea prepares for national elections later this year. Isayas Afeworki is expected to be the only presidential candidate. V-O-A's Scott Stearns reports about how Mr. Isayas views Eritrean politics following the border war.
Full Report
SOURCE: VOA
April 12, 2001
Police in Ethiopia stormed a university campus in Addis Ababa on Wednesday, beating students who were demanding greater freedom of expression.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC
April 12, 2001
The information minister of the transitional government, Dr Zakaria Mahmud Haji Abdi, and the deputy defence minister, Dr Muhammad Mahmud Hayd, have addressed a news conference at Hotel Ramadan in Mogadishu to speak about the counterfeit money, Ethiopia and issues relating to the armed forces.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 12, 2001
Asmara: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday facilitated the repatriation of 1721 Ethiopians from Eritrea to Ethiopia, Eritrean News Agency reported today.
Full Report
SOURCE: visafric
April 12, 2001
The Secretary-General arrived in Amsterdam on 4 April. The following morning, he met with the chief executive officers and senior officials of six of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies (Abbott Laboratories, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Glaxo Smith Kline, Hoffman-La Roche, and Pfizer).
Full Report
SOURCE: M2 Communications Ltd.
April 12, 2001
The Afar National Liberation Movement during the week expressed its readiness to continue its struggle [against Eritrea] and vowed to achieve the Afar people's national unity.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 11, 2001
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Around 50 Ethiopian students were injured on Wednesday after police stormed their campus during a protest over their academic and political rights, medical officials said.
Full Report
SOURCE: Reuters
April 11, 2001
The United Nations has diverted food to Sudan to help bridge the flow of emergency food aid needed for more than three million people. World Food Programme (WFP) spokeswoman Lindsey Davis, told IRIN that food destined for Ethiopia had been diverted to Sudan when the consignment arrived in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast.
Full Report
SOURCE: OneWorld
April 11, 2001
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) resumed the voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees in Ethiopia on 10 April, a UNHCR statement said. A convoy carrying the first 1,500 returnees from the Camaboker refugee camp, in southeastern Ethiopia, was seen off by the visiting High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers.
Full Report
SOURCE: IRIN
April 11, 2001
Two and a half million pastoralists and small-scale farmers face serious food shortages unless emergency assistance reaches them soon, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
Full Report
SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 11, 2001
With its economic potentialities, there is no reason for Africa to remain underdeveloped, a World Bank official has said.
Full Report
SOURCE: PANA
April 11, 2001
The Speaker of the interim Somali parliament, Mr Abdullahi Derow Isaq, briefed parliament yesterday on the recent meeting attended by Somali faction leaders in Awash [central Ethiopia].
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 11, 2001
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a new $89.7 million emergency operation to feed 2.5 million small-scale farmers in Ethiopia.
Full Report
SOURCE: MBendi
April 11, 2001
Kenya has removed duty on goods from eight Comesa [Common Market for East and southern Africa] countries.
Full Report
SOURCE: MBendi
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