The Nation (Kenya)
December 11, 2001
Violent tribal clashes in the south of Ethiopia in recent months have left at least 60 people dead and almost 200 wounded, according to reliable reports received by the UN. Hundreds of families have fled their homes after skirmishes between the Borana and Garre tribes, who have a long history of fighting over land use, a UN source told IRIN.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
December 11, 2001
The border commission charged with reaching mutual agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea on the demarcation of their common border began hearing the cases of the two countries in the Hague on Monday. The deputy ambassador at the Eritrean embassy in Nairobi told IRIN on Tuesday that the Eritrean Foreign Minister Ali Sayyid Abdallah had addressed the panel yesterday and that the presentation of the Eritrean case would continue today.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
December 11, 2001
AN ALLEGED senior al-Qa'ida member accused of complicity in the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Kenya has been arrested by Kenyan authorities. Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, who was on a list of America's 22 most-wanted terrorists, was held at Mandera, on Kenya's Somalia border. He is expected to be taken to the capital, Nairobi, 500 miles away.
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SOURCE: The Independent - United Kingdom
December 11, 2001
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, said on Monday that human rights were the key to development in Africa, and called on the international community to do more to ensure that the continent can fully implement a human rights based approach.
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SOURCE: UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
December 11, 2001
Text of commentary entitled "US foreign policy concerns towards Somalia" in English by Somali newspaper Ayaamaha web site on 10 December; all subheadings as published
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 10, 2001
ROME, Dec 10, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- European Union (EU) special envoy Rino Serri warned here Monday against anti-terror military action in Somalia, arguing that a stable government was the key to combatting the threat of terrorism in the African country.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 10, 2001
Reports from Baydhabo town say RRA [Rahanwein Resistance Army] officials in Godey [southeastern Ethiopia] have held talks with Ethiopian officials. The two sides discussed ways of strengthening the cooperation between RRA and the Ethiopian government.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 10, 2001
The Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) between Eritrea and Ethiopia is said to be calm and stable, despite accusations of violations. A spokesman for the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) said the peace process remained on track.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
December 10, 2001
Ethiopia, which has been working with the SRRC [Somali Reconciliation and Reconstruction Council, factions opposed to the interim government] for sometime now, appears to be failing to achieve its objectives in the faction.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 10, 2001
ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Saudi Arabia has refused a U.S. appeal to release more than a dozen Christians accused of practicing their faith. The Christians were arrested in a series of raids that began in July in the Saudi city of Jedda. U.S. diplomats raised the issue with the kingdom and were told that the Christians would be released.
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SOURCE: Middle East Newsline
December 10, 2001
Col Abdullahi Yusuf [former president of Puntland regional government] and [Mogadishu faction leader] Husayn Aydid, last month held a meeting in Addis Ababa with an Israeli delegation.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 7, 2001
UNITED NATIONS, December 7 (Xinhuanet) -- With the overallsituation in the Temporary Security Zone separating Ethiopia andEritrea remains "calm and stable," the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Friday said there were accusations ofviolations of the buffer zone.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 7, 2001
Bratislava, 7 December: On Friday [7 December], the commander of the training department at the General Staff of the Slovak Army, Col Peter Kandrac, issued the necessary orders for 131 Slovak servicemen and officers joining the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), leaving on the same day to Eritrea.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 7, 2001
Reports we have just received from the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, say the SRRC [Somali Reconciliation and Reconstruction Council] chairman who is also the RRA [Rahanwein Resistance Army] chairman, Dr Hasan Muhammad Nur (Shatigadud), has held talks with some western diplomats accredited to Ethiopia in Geone Hotel, Addis Ababa.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 6, 2001
NAIROBI, Dec 6, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Eritrean government has strongly protested against Ethiopia's latest violation of a ceasefire agreement between the two countries, according to a press release available here on Thursday from the Eritrean embassy.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 6, 2001
The Eritrean government has accused Ethiopian armed forces of attacking an Eritrean Police and militia post inside the Temporary Security Zone, set up to separate the two armies, according to a press Statement by the Eritrean Commission for Coordination with the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) dated 5 December.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
