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NEWS ARCHIVE
DECEMBER 2001
December 5, 2001
The US is closing in on Somali extremist groups thought to have links with Mr Osama bin Laden, a senior State official said in Nairobi.
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SOURCE: Nation
December 5, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 5, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- United States Under Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner arrived here on Wednesday after concluding his visit to Kenya.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
December 5, 2001
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya said on Wednesday that the United States was investigating possible links between Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and extremist groups in Somalia.
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SOURCE: Reuters
December 4, 2001
Washington is fuelling speculation that Somalia, the second most war-torn corner of the Islamic world, will become the next target in the war against terror. "Somalia has been a place that has harboured al-Qaida and, to my knowledge, still is," said the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, last week.
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SOURCE: The Guardian - United Kingdom
December 4, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Ethiopian opposition parties dismissed the country's HIV/AIDS programme as ineffective on Tuesday and called on the government to declare a state of emergency to stop the spread of the disease.
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SOURCE: CNN
December 4, 2001
MOSCOW, Dec 04, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Avdeyev meets Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin on Tuesday.
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SOURCE: ITAR/TASS News Agency
December 3, 2001
The United States may strike against alleged terrorist bases in Somalia in coming weeks, a British newspaper has said.
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SOURCE: The Nation Kenya
December 3, 2001
Washington is fuelling speculation that Somalia, the second most war-torn corner of the Islamic world, will become the next target in the war against terror. "Somalia has been a place that has harboured al-Qaida and, to my knowledge, still is," said the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, last week.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
December 3, 2001
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Visiting Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday for Moscow's friendship through a trying decade, and the two leaders signed a declaration of friendship and partnership.
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SOURCE: CNN
December 3, 2001
One person was killed and another one lost a hand while two policemen received gunshot wounds in clashes between Muslims and Christians in a neighbourhood in Addis Ababa.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 1, 2001
The execution of ethnic Borenas in Oromiya Regional State [central Ethiopia] has resumed after a lull for a short time. According to information we received from the area, 24 ethnic Borenas were executed after being disarmed by government officials. Their bodies were set on fire...
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 1, 2001
The border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea resumed this week. Ethiopia has informed the UN General Assembly and the [Ethiopian and Eritrean] Military Coordination Commission about the massing of more than 30,000 Eritrean troops in preparation for invasion.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 1, 2001
Somali Premier Mr Hasan Abshir Farah has held a news conference at Hotel Ramadan [in Mogadishu] and commented on his visit to Djibouti and Ethiopia.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 1, 2001
Vote on Transparency in Armaments
The draft resolution on transparency in armaments (document A/56/536-R) was adopted by a recorded vote of 135 in favour to none against, with 23 abstentions, as follows:
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SOURCE: M2 Communications Ltd.
December 1, 2001
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American warships are patrolling the Indian Ocean off Somalia's coast, looking for any movement by Osama bin Laden or top leaders of his al Qaeda guerrilla network, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
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SOURCE: Reuters
December 1, 2001
Rahanwein Resistance Army leader Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud is today expected to leave Baydhabo [southcentral Somalia] for Godey, Ethiopia. Shatigadud, who is expected to meet some Ethiopian officials in Godey, will later leave for Addis Ababa. It is not known who is accompanying him...
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
December 1, 2001
The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Force Commander on Wednesday reiterated a firm denial of recent statements made by the Eritrean and Ethiopian governments accusing each another of destabilising the peace process.
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SOURCE: UN-IRIN
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