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NEWS ARCHIVE
March 2001
March 31, 2001
The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has said the split in the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has exposed the lack of agreement within the ruling party on the peace agreement with Eritrea
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SOURCE: IRIN
March 31, 2001
President Daniel Arap Moi of Kenya and his Sudanese counterpart, Omar al-Beshir have called for an East African regional body to revive efforts to end the 18-year-old war in Sudan.
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SOURCE: BBC
March 31, 2001
ASMARA, Eritrea -- Eritrea has agreed to resume moving its troops away from its border with Ethiopia, the United Nations said.
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SOURCE: CNN
March 31, 2001
A new report by the World Bank's Development Research Group on the links between foreign aid and economic policy reform in Africa has revealed that aid has in some countries has been effective in supporting policy reform, but that, in general, donors have not discriminated effectively between different countries. "Large amounts of aid to countries with bad policies sustain those poor policies," the report said.
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SOURCE: IRIN
March 31, 2001
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Eritrea has agreed to resume moving its troops away from its border with Ethiopia to help create a buffer zone between the nations' armies, the United Nations said Friday.
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SOURCE: Assoicated Press
March 30, 2001
The UNMEE [UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea] has refuted an Eritrean radio report which says that the three UN vehicles which were hit by land mines in Tsorena, southern Eritrea, was planted by the Ethiopian government.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
March 30, 2001
NAIROBI (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- The condition of the four Russian fishermen, captured in Somalia, has improved after measures taken by the embassies of the Russian Federation in Ethiopia and Kenya.
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SOURCE: ITAR/TASS News Agency
March 30, 2001
In a move welcomed by the United Nations, Eritrea informed the UN today that it would resume rearranging its armed forces on 5 April in order to continue the process of establishing the buffer zone between Ethiopian and Eritrean forces.
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SOURCE: United Nations
March 30, 2001
Ethiopian armed units have returned to the buffer zone on the disputed border with Eritrea, the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) said on Thursday. UNMEE said it had asked for the immediate withdrawal of forces from the area.
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SOURCE: IRIN
March 30, 2001
The Eritrean Government has announced that its troops will resume their withdrawal from a buffer zone along the border with Ethiopia.
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SOURCE: BBC
March 30, 2001
It is said that the OPDO [Oromo People's Democratic Organization] secretary-general and president of Oromiya [Regional State] Mr Kuma Demeksa, ANDM (Amhara Nationality Democratic Movement) Secretary-General Mr Adisu Legese and Southern Ethiopia People's Revolutionary Democratic Front Secretary-General Mr Abate Kisho, who had supported the Siye Abraha [splinter] group during the initial split of the TPLF [Tigray People's Liberation Front Central Committe meeting] have lately reversed their position.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
March 30, 2001
The leader of the rebel group, Hussein Farah Aidid, told reporters that an operation was prepared on Friday to safely ferry two Britons, a Frenchman and a Belgian to the airport of Somalia's capital Mogadisho and on to neighbouring Kenia.
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SOURCE: ITAR/TASS News Agency
March 29, 2001
NAIROBI, -- The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) said it had not been able to confirm which party was responsible for planting the mine which injured a Canadian peacekeeper.
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SOURCE: IRIN
March 29, 2001
The director of the World Food Programme, Catherine Bertini, has arrived in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, at the start of a four-day visit.
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SOURCE: BBC
March 29, 2001
NAIROBI, 28 March -- The fate of the group who opposed Prime Minister Meles Zenawi last week has not been officially confirmed, although opposition sources claim that dissident members are being held at the former emperor's palace in the capital, Addis Ababa.
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SOURCE: IRIN
March 29, 2001
Politics is sometimes a cruel sport. There is no better testimony to that than the recent squabble in TPLF. The saga, though eye-catching, is according to some commentators shocking, embarrassing and disquieting.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
March 28, 2001
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia have signed a Status-of-Forces Agreement (SOFA) concerning the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), the United Nations said here on Wednesday.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
March 28, 2001
The UN says it has details about the whereabouts of six of its staff and three other aid workers who disappeared in Mogadishu during an outbreak of fierce fighting.
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SOURCE: BBC
March 28, 2001
MOGADISHU, Somalia (Reuters) - Six aid workers including five foreigners and a Somali seized by gunmen in heavy fighting in Mogadishu were freed Wednesday and U.N. officials were in contact with a warlord to seek the release of four others.
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SOURCE: Reuters
March 28, 2001
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Five foreign aid workers trapped by militia fighting have been moved to safety in a hotel in the capital but four others were still missing, a Somali official and aid agency representatives said Wednesday.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
March 28, 2001
The Ethiopian UNMEE [UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea] Coordinatior Bureau said yesterday that the statement issued by the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, UNMEE, on [seventh] March 2001 alleging that three companies of Ethiopian forces have moved into the prospective Temporary Security Zone [TSZ] was contradictory to the Algiers agreement that stipulates the redeployement of Ethiopian forces to the May 1998 position.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
March 28, 2001
Ethiopia has denied accusations by the United Nations that its troops are still deployed in a buffer zone on the Eritrean border, claiming that all its forces are in Ethiopian territory.
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SOURCE: AFP
March 28, 2001
WASHINGTON -- Foreign aid can help key economic reforms take root in developing countries, but only if recipient governments and their people broadly support the need for change, says a new World Bank report that investigates how development aid has influenced economic policy in Africa. Without such "country ownership," external cajoling or donor-imposed "conditionality" is unlikely to make poor countries adopt reforms which they oppose.
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SOURCE: M2 Communications Ltd.
March 27, 2001
The Ethiopian permanent representative at the UN has denied claims that
Ethiopia has deployed troops in Irob [an area in the prospective security
zone], saying Ethiopia was administering the area before May 1998. Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
March 27, 2001
The Secretary-General travelled to Washington, D.C., on Friday afternoon, 23
March, for his first meeting with United States President George W. Bush and senior members of his Administration.
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SOURCE:
M2 Communications Ltd.
March 27, 2001
Somali Foreign Minister Ismail Mahmud Hurri has said that the Ethiopian
government's embracement of a number of Somali warlords and allowing
them to hold a conference in Addis Ababa to oppose the transitional Somali
government is a new attempt to spread chaos. Full Report
SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
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