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NEWS ARCHIVE
DECEMBER 2001
December 30, 2001
The Ethiopian government, which supports the SRRC [Somali Reconciliation and Reconstruction Council], and strongly opposes the Transitional Government of Somalia, has held talks with the SRRC's reconciliation secretary, Col Hasan Abdille Qalad, in Gode [southeastern Ethiopia].
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 30, 2001
NOTHING crosses the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, a 1,000km stretch of rocky mountains and desert plains that sparked a bloody war in 1998 and which is now patrolled by over 4,000 UN troops. Nothing, that is, except for cattle.
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SOURCE: Scotsman
December 30, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, December 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will pay a three-day visit to the Sudan next month to attend a summit meeting to be held in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, the local weekly newspaper Fortune reported here on Sunday.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 30, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, December 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ethiopian government is expected to send a high level delegation to Djibouti next month in a bid to persuade Djibouti officials to cooperate in establishing a dry port within Ethiopian territories.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 30, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Three Somali warlords called for international military intervention in their country yesterday to clean out al Qaeda terror bases.
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SOURCE: New York Post Online
December 22, 2001
Khartoum, 22 December: The Sudanese - Ethiopian political committee is due to meet next Tuesday [25 December] in Khartoum. The committee's meetings will last for four days.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 22, 2001
The Ethiopian Airlines has suspended its daily flights to Mekele [northern Ethiopia]. The airlines suspended the flights to Mekele because the weyane [Ethiopian] government wants to use the Mekele and other airports for fighter jets in its planned war against Eritrea.
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SOURCE: Voice of Oromo Liberation
December 22, 2001
According to a reliable report we received from Baydhabo [alternative spelling Baidoa, in south-central Somalia], the Ethiopian government has requested the SRRC [Somali Reconciliation and Reconstruction Council] alliance to prepare about 4,000 militiamen.
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SOURCE: Xog-Ogaal - Mogadishu
December 22, 2001
The border commission charged with deciding on the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea is due to finish two weeks of hearings on Friday.
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SOURCE: BBC
December 20, 2001
Nairobi - Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin left for The Hague in the Netherlands on Wednesday, stating he expected his country's border with Eritrea to be demarcated on the basis of international laws and treaties.
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SOURCE: Middle East News Online
December 20, 2001
The annual symposium of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the USA, which this year focused on Islam, Africa and terrorism, has come to a close.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 20, 2001
- Peace talks aimed at bringing about reconciliation between the Transitional National Government (TNG) and factions opposed to it, due to open in Nairobi last week, failed to start because of the absence of some key faction leaders. However, efforts were now under way to get the talks started "by today or tomorrow", a Kenyan government source told IRIN on Tuesday.
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SOURCE: UN OCHA Integrated Regional Information Network
December 19, 2001
The Ethiopian Human Rights Council has said it is ready to send observers to Southern Ethiopia Peoples, Nations and Nationalities State to oversee zonal, district and neighbourhood elections. The council, which has already sent some observers, said if opposition parties are going to take part in the electoral process, then it would send observers to all polling stations in the region.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 19, 2001
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bent on keeping Osama bin Laden's besieged guerrillas from regrouping abroad, the United States is once again focusing on Somalia, scene of a U.S. military debacle in 1993 and a hotbed of lawlessness.
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SOURCE: Reuters
December 19, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 19, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin said Wednesday that Ethiopia expected the Border Commission in charge of demarcating the border claims of Eritrea and Ethiopia will judge only on the basis of international laws and treaties as stated in the Algiers peace accord.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 19, 2001
NAIROBI, 19 December: Eritrean parliamentary elections planned for this month are unlikely to go ahead as various essential factors are not yet in place, regional analysts and government officials said on Wednesday [19 December].
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 19, 2001
Eritrean parliamentary elections planned for this month are unlikely to go ahead as various essential factors are not yet in place, regional analysts and government officials said on Wednesday.
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SOURCE: UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
December 19, 2001
Tension is rising "considerably" between Ethiopia and Eritrea, according to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan who urged both sides to exercise restraint and avoid provocative actions.
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SOURCE: UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
December 15, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, December 14 (Xinhuanet) -- A total of 240 Ethiopians
left Eritrea for home on Friday under the auspices of the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the ICRC said.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 15, 2001
Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin has said the sha'biyyah [Eritrean] government was violating the basic principles of the Algiers peace agreement.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 15, 2001
NAIROBI, December 15 (Xinhuanet) -- A joint technical committee meeting of experts on the Kenya-Ethiopia boundary will be held soon in Moyale town in northern Kenya, a senior official from Kenya's foreign ministry has said.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 15, 2001
An elderly priest, Keshi Gebrekidan, holding his bible as he sat and rested in the shade of an unfinished building in the deserted Eritrean border town of New Serha, largely destroyed during the war with Ethiopia.
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SOURCE: BBC
December 15, 2001
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 14, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Despite an improvement in the overall food situation in sub-Saharan Africa, millions of people continue to face hunger and starvation, according to new findings by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 15, 2001
DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 14, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A number of African states have expressed their willingness to join the Africa Trade Insurance Agency (ATI).
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 13, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 13, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) have decided to offer 1.6 million U.S. dollars to the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), said a press release issued here by the ECA on Thursday.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 13, 2001
US CLAIMS that Somalia is harbouring terrorist organisations with links to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network are said to have been questioned by senior UN officials.
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SOURCE: East African
December 13, 2001
MOGADISHU, December 13 -- Somali fighters are fleeing Afghanistan and returning home, according to warlord Hussein Aideed. Mr Aideed urged the United States to act against the men he said belonged to al-Itihad al-Islamiya, which the US says is affiliated to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
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SOURCE: The Nation Kenya
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