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NEWS ARCHIVE
APRIL 2001
April 10, 2001
Over 220 Eritreans were repatriated Tuesday from Ethiopia under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), an ICRC press release said.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
April 10, 2001
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Legwaila Joseph Legwaila, has told journalists that the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) is moving towards creating a buffer zone on the disputed border.
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SOURCE: IRIN
April 10, 2001
Nairobi, Apr 10, 2001 (UN Integrated Regional Information Network/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX)-- After a UN inter-agency appeal for US $353 million for drought-affected populations in the Horn of Africa was launched in January 2001, donors showed great reluctance in responding.
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SOURCE: AllAfrica.com
April 10, 2001
After the ghastly war between Ethiopia and Eritrea stopped following the agreement signed by the leaders of the two countries in Algiers, the EPRDF [Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Front, ruling coalition] government has begun announcing names of the dead soldiers to their families...
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 10, 2001
Apr 10, 2001 (UN Integrated Regional Information Network/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX)-- The Ethiopian former ruler, Mengistu Hailemariam, was not entitled to a Zimbabwean passport recently issued to him, the 'Zimbabwe Independent' said on Friday, 6 March. Government officials in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, had "broken the law" by granting passports to Mengistu and his family, the Harare-based newspaper said.
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SOURCE: AllAfrica.com
April 10, 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.
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SOURCE: WFP
April 10, 2001
The newly convened Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) will start work next week, Mogadishu faction leader Husayn Aydid told a press conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, news agencies said.
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SOURCE: SRRC
April 10, 2001
Ethiopia has rejected accusations by Somalia's Transitional National Government (TNG) that it was destabilising the country and interfering in Somalia's internal affairs.
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SOURCE: TNG
April 10, 2001
The Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) today stressed the vital importance for peacekeepers to be able to move freely in their area of operation, while representatives of the two countries restated their commitment to the goal.
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SOURCE: United Nations
April 10, 2001
NAIROBI, 9 April (IRIN) - The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed accusations by the Eritrean government that Ethiopian security personnel had held up an Eritrean diplomat at gunpoint.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 9, 2001
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea says he expects a buffer zone to be established between the two nations shortly.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 9, 2001
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Rud Lubbers, was due in Addis Ababa Monday for a four-day visit, his first since being appointed head of the UNHCR in January 2001.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 9, 2001
The United Nations is close to establishing the buffer zone between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 9, 2001
Reliable reports from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, say the officer who was in charge of Ethiopian troops who [recently] supported pro-Ethiopian SNF [Somali National Front] militiamen, and were involved in clashes with Somali interim government forces in Buulo Xaawo [south western Somalia], has committed suicide.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 9, 2001
Addis Ababa --The Tigray State Council sacked chief of the State administration, Gebru Asrat, and another executive committee member of the council at an emergency meeting that opened here on Sunday.
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SOURCE: ENA
April 8, 2001
An African agricultural research centre is to be established in Addis Ababa under the aegis of the World Bank to co-ordinate research in the field in the continent, the government press reported Sunday in Addis Ababa.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 8, 2001
Ethiopian Foreign Ministry has dismissed an accusation by Eritrea that Ethiopian security have detained an Eritrean diplomat at gunpoints, local media reported Saturday.
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SOURCE: People Daily
April 8, 2001
MOGADISHU, Apr 8, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A delegation of Somali faction leaders, starting from Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, arrived in the southern town of Baidoa, Somalia on Sunday morning aboard a special military plane.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
April 8, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 8, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Ruud Lubbers, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is expected to arrive here on April 9 for a four-day visit to Ethiopia, the first visit since he assumed responsibilities as Head of UNHCR three months ago.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
April 7, 2001
The Kenya government does not harbour guerrillas from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Office of the President minister in charge of internal security Maj (Retd) Marsden Madoka told parliament on Thursday afternoon [5 April].
Full Report
SOURCE: The People - Nairobi
April 7, 2001
Ethiopian and Eritrean military representatives have met in Djibouti under the auspices of the United Nations, to resolve the outstanding issues brought about their border war.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 7, 2001
Khartoum, 6 April: Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Mustafa Uthman Isma'il has said that he conveyed a message, during his recent visit to Ethiopia, from President of the Republic Gen Umar al-Bashir to the Ethiopian leadership, affirming Sudan support to Ethiopia and to the bilateral relations.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 7, 2001
The Kenya government does not harbour guerrillas from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Office of the President minister in charge of internal security Maj (Retd) Marsden Madoka told parliament on Thursday afternoon [5 April].
Full Report
SOURCE: The People - Nairobi
April 7, 2001
Ethiopian and Eritrean military representatives have met in Djibouti under the auspices of the United Nations, to resolve the outstanding issues brought about their border war.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 7, 2001
Khartoum, 6 April: Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Mustafa Uthman Isma'il has said that he conveyed a message, during his recent visit to Ethiopia, from President of the Republic Gen Umar al-Bashir to the Ethiopian leadership, affirming Sudan support to Ethiopia and to the bilateral relations.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 6, 2001
The fifth meeting of the Military Coordination Commission (MCC) was held today in Djibouti. The MCC brings together United Nations peacekeepers with senior military delegations from Ethiopia and Eritrea and representatives of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) to resolve military and technical issues relating to the peace process between these two countries in the Horn of Africa.
Full Report
SOURCE: UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
April 6, 2001
Home Affairs authorities violated the law when granting former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam and his relatives Zimbabwean passports to which they were not entitled, it was learnt this week.
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SOURCE: Zimbabwe Independent
April 6, 2001
Eritrea this week resumed the withdrawal of its troops from a temporary security zone along its border with Ethiopia. United Nations peacekeepers are policing that zone, separating armies that fought for more than two years. Scott Stearns examines the role of the U-N peacekeepers and the challenges ahead.
Full Report
SOURCE: VOA
April 6, 2001
Since the repressive Dergue [Mengistu] regime was dismantled once and for all through the united and concerted struggle of our peoples and the leading role of the EPRDF [Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front] in May 1991, the nations and nationalities of our country have become beneficiaries of the democratic process under way to ensure their national identity and strengthen their culture and beliefs, and beneficiaries of economic development in the country, and have also established their own regional governments.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 6, 2001
Sanaa, 4 April: President Ali Abdallah Salih met here on Wednesday [4 April] with the Eritrean Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sayyid Abdallah who conveyed to him a message from his Eritrean counterpart Isayas Afewerki.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 5, 2001
Apr 05, 2001 (UN Integrated Regional Information Network/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX)-- The Eritrean government has protested against the treatment of one of its diplomats in Addis Ababa, who, it said, had been detained at gunpoint at the entrance of the Eritrean Embassy.
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SOURCE: OAU
April 5, 2001
Ethiopia has begun the painstakingly emotional task of releasing the names of tens of thousands of young men who died during the two-and-a-half year border war with Eritrea.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 5, 2001
Eritrea is resuming the withdrawal of its troops from a buffer zone along the border with Ethiopia. U-N peacekeepers are policing that zone, separating armies that fought for more than two-years. As V-O-A's Scott Stearns reports, establishing the security zone means more Eritreans civilians may soon return home.
Full Report
SOURCE: VOA
April 5, 2001
The Eritrean government has protested against the treatment of one of its diplomats in Addis Ababa, who, it said, had been detained at gunpoint at the entrance of the Eritrean Embassy.
Full Report
SOURCE: IRIN
April 5, 2001
The Ethiopian government is starting to notify the families of soldiers killed in the recent war with Eritrea. The process began in Amhara State on 29 March, and was continued in the capital, Addis Ababa, last Sunday, the independent newspaper 'Wonchif' reported on 3 April.
Full Report
SOURCE: IRIN
April 5, 2001
Eritrea has accused Ethiopia of detaining at gunpoint its envoy in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, in breach of diplomatic convention.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 5, 2001
United Nations officials say military commanders from Ethiopia and Eritrea are to meet on Friday to tackle continuing differences over their common border.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 4, 2001
Ethiopian and Eritrean military commanders are to meet under the auspices of the United Nations on Friday to tackle their continuing differences over their mutual border.
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SOURCE: BBC
April 4, 2001
EThe death toll in a meningitis outbreak in Burkina Faso topped 1,000 yesterday, the government said, claiming it was making inroads against the epidemic.
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SOURCE: Financial Times
April 4, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Four months after Ethiopia's 2 1/2 year war with Eritrea ended, authorities are starting to notify the families of soldiers killed in the brutal conflict, state and independent media reported Wednesday
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SOURCE: Associated Press
April 4, 2001
The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) will hold its Military Coordination Committee (MCC) meeting on Friday in Djibouti, UNMEE spokeswoman Angela Walker told IRIN. The meeting had earlier been scheduled to take place on 28 March, but was postponed.
Full Report
SOURCE: IRIN
April 4, 2001
Ethiopia is to receive a Japanese grant of 38.2 million birr to enhance its output in agriculture under an agreement both sides signed Wednesday in Addis Ababa.
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SOURCE: PANA
April 4, 2001
Eritrea says it is ready to restart the withdrawal of its troops from a buffer zone along the border with Ethiopia. As V-O-A's Scott Stearns reports from Asmara, United Nations peacekeepers will police that zone separating armies that fought for more that two years.
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SOURCE: VOA
April 4, 2001
Two British UN security officers held captive here for more than a week were released Wednesday and boarded a plane for Nairobi, a Somali faction leader and a United Nations official told AFP.
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SOURCE: AFP
April 3, 2001
In the interview with Government Spokesman, Haile Kiros, he asserts that "UNMEE has apologized to the government of Ethiopia." In a press release it sent to The Daily Monitor, the deputy chief of public information and spokeswoman, Angela Walker said, "At no time did UNMEE Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Legwaila Joseph Legwaila, nor the Force Commander, Major-General Patrick Cammaert, make such an apology."
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SOURCE: Daily Monitor
April 3, 2001
The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea announced during the weekend that the next meeting of the Military Coordination Commission (MCC) is scheduled to be held on 6 April. Military Coordination Commission is chaired by the UNMEE Force Commander and brings together senior military representatives from the two parties.
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SOURCE: Daily Monitor
April 3, 2001
Ms. Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) announced over the weekend the launching of a US$352 m appeal required in drought relief assistance for over 12.8 million people in the Horn of Africa.
Full Report
SOURCE: Daily Monitor
April 3, 2001
After the border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea escalated into a ghastly war that consumed hundreds of thousands of lives and destroyed property worth billions of birr, Ethiopians are now being told about the deaths of their relatives who lost their lives in the war.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 2, 2001
NAIROBI, 2 April (IRIN) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Drought in the Greater Horn of Africa, Catherine Bertini, began a four-day visit to Ethiopia on 29 March to review the humanitarian situation.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
April 2, 2001
The government has threatened to pursue militiamen into Somalia if they continue committing atrocities on the Kenyan soil.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 1, 2001
Mr Hasan Shifa, who was one of the 12 expelled Central Committee members [of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, TPLF], has now rejoined the Central Committee after making self criticism.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 1, 2001
The prime minister of the interim government of Somalia, Ali Khalif Galayr, has addressed a news conference at Hotel Ramadan in Mogadishu to speak about the abduction of the foreign aid workers in Mogadishu and Ethiopia's interference in Somalia's internal affairs.
Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 1, 2001
The president of the republic, Staff Lt-Gen Umar al-Bashir, has received a verbal message from the Ethiopian.Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
April 1, 2001
MOGADISHU: Prime minister Ali Khalif Gallaydh on Saturday accused Ethiopia of openly intervening in Somali affairs after more than two dozen people were reportedly killed in a key border town in fighting this week.
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SOURCE: The Times Of India
April 1, 2001
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Susan Chepkemei of Kenya won the women's division of the Lisbon Half-Marathon Sunday in a world record 1 hour, 5 minutes, 44 seconds.
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SOURCE: AP Online
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