Athletics: Gete Wami of Ethiopia won the world women's cross country short course title over 4.1 kilometres today in Ostend, Belgium, in an unofficial 14 minutes 45 seconds.
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March 25, 2001
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said an attempt by a dissident group to cause political upheaval in the country has been thwarted.
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March 25, 2001
The Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, says he's thwarted an attempt to cause political upheaval by a dissident group in the dominant Tigre People's Liberation Front.
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SOURCE: BBC
March 25, 2001
Reports reaching us from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, say the Somali faction leaders who have been holding talks in Awash town [north of Addis Ababa] the day before yesterday [22 March].
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
March 25, 2001
United Nations - Ethiopia signed an agreement with the United Nations on Friday on the rights and privileges of peacekeepers, moving forward a delicate peace process with its Horn of Africa neighbour Eritrea.
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SOURCE: Independent online
March 24, 2001
Addis Ababa, March 24 (WIC) - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has effectively foiled an attempt by a minority of the Central Committee members of Tigray Peoples's Liberation Front (TPLF) to create a rift among its general membership, and the coalition members of the EPRDF.
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March 24, 2001
It is to be recalled that it has been decided by the EPRDF Executive Committee, that EPRDF member organizations evaluate their performances during the past ten year, prior to the convening of the 4th congress of the EPRDF.
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March 24, 2001
Sudan and Eritrea have agreed with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to return Eritrean refugees in Sudan, a statement said on Friday.
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March 23, 2001
After a week of speculation, the ruling party in Ethiopia has confirmed there's been a serious split within the leadership.
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March 23, 2001
Ethiopia's ruling coalition Friday announced that it had reprimanded dissidents within the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) for breaching party rules which it claimed "endangered the unity of the front."
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SOURCE: PANA
March 23, 2001
Serious rifts came to light this week at a General Council meeting of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), three months after the signing of a peace accord with Eritrea, press reports said Friday.
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March 23, 2001
UN (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops have been found inside a buffer zone intended to keep apart the once warring armies of Horn of Africa neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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SOURCE: WOZA
March 23, 2001
The United Nations has said that the return of Ethiopian troops to the buffer zone with Eritrea is a problem.
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SOURCE: WOZA
March 23, 2001
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Friday repatriated 814 more Ethiopians from Eritrea, mainly from and around the Eritrean capital, Asmara.
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SOURCE: PANA
March 23, 2001
VOA -- United Nations peacekeepers say several hundred Ethiopian troops are in an area where they do not belong -- a planned buffer zone that is meant to divide Ethiopian troops from Eritrean troops.
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March 22, 2001
Mengistu ruled for 17 years
Ethiopia's former leader Mengistu Haile Mariam has been granted permanent residence in Zimbabwe - his home since he fled Addis Ababa in 1991.
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March 22, 2001
HARARE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) -- Zimbabwe has granted permanent residence to former Ethiopian strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam who fled to the southern African country a decade ago, government officials said on Thursday.
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March 22, 2001
Home Affairs Minister John Nkomo this week granted former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam and seven members of his clan permanent residence in Zimbabwe despite calls from Addis Ababa for Mengistu's extradition and trial for atrocities committed during his 17-year terror rule of the Horn of Africa nation.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
March 22, 2001
Mengistu's new status means that he and his family members can no longer be deported from Zimbabwe unless they commit and get convicted of serious criminal offences in the country.
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SOURCE: Financial Gazette - Zimbabwe
