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NEWS ARCHIVE
March 2001
March 22, 2001
The Tigray People's Liberation Front [TPLF] central committee meeting has sacked the following top party executive members
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
March 22, 2001
The TPLF [Tigray People's Liberation Front - the dominant organization within the ruling party] is currently facing internal dissent due to tribal divisions in the organization. As a result the front is divided into two groups, 15 against 13, it has been learnt.
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SOURCE: BBC Monitoring Service
March 22, 2001
The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) today announced that it has found Ethiopian armed forces companies in the Central Sector of the future Temporary Security Zone (TSZ).
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SOURCE: UNMEE
March 22, 2001
In a press release it sent to The Daily Monitor, the UNHCR disclosed that on Wednesday 14 March 2001, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA), Relief Society of Tigray (REST). Organisation for Development in Amhara (ORDA), Rehabilitation and Development Organization (ORDA) in collaboration with the government of Sudan completed the voluntary repatriation of 602 Ethiopian refugees.
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SOURCE: The Daily Monitor
March 22, 2001
It was reported that Eritrea is planning its first independent elections for a new parliament, local government and for the presidency since independence from Ethiopia.
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SOURCE: MBendi
March 22, 2001
Somali warlords and other groups opposed to the country's transitional government have joined together to form a unity council.
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SOURCE: BBC
March 22, 2001
Warlords and other Somalis opposed to the new transitional government (STG) in Mogadishu said here Thursday that they had formed a common front to prepare a national reconciliation conference aimed at creating a "legitimate" administration.
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SOURCE: AFP
March 22, 2001
Washington Dc (Somali Support Committee/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX)-- Somalia is without a government since they ousted the former military regime of Siad Barre in 1991. Since then the country has been in chaos, civil war, and the home of looters, warlords, and international terrorists.
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SOURCE: Mohamed Dheere
March 21, 2001
Ethiopian Government sources are rejecting reports that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's position is under threat from an internal power struggle from within his party. But officials close to the prime minister have admitted that over the past few weeks there has been widespread internal dissent.
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SOURCE: BBC
March 21, 2001
2nd Century AD - Semitic people from the Arabian peninsula establish the kingdom of Aksum.
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SOURCE: BBC
March 21, 2001
Before leaving the Eritrean capital Asmara on Tuesday, Kagame told a news conference the aim of his visit had been to strengthen existing ties between the two countries, Eritrean radio said.
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SOURCE: IRIN
March 21, 2001
Eritrea has submitted detailed minefield information to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).
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SOURCE: IRIN
March 21, 2001
The Eritrean government said it had continued reservations over an operational map drawn up by the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).
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SOURCE: IRIN
March 21, 2001
Several dozens of Ethiopian refugees yesterday took the streets of Khartoum and Port Sudan (Sudan) on their third day of hunger strike. The protest – explained our MISNA sources
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SOURCE: MISNA
March 20, 2001
LUSAKA: A regional trade court for 20 nations in eastern and southern Africa held its inaugural session on Monday, creating a new body that will have the power to overturn national laws and court rulings.
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SOURCE: The Times Of India
March 20, 2001
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this morning decided to defer consideration of a revised budget for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) until its May session, when financing of several peacekeeping missions is on its agenda.
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SOURCE: M2 Communications Ltd.
March 20, 2001
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia says three Canadian peacekeepers have been wounded in a shooting incident in the mission's central sector.
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SOURCE: BBC
March 20, 2001
The UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Tuesday described as "important development" the detailed military minefield information the mission received on Monday from the Eritrean authorities.
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SOURCE: PANA
March 20, 2001
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved in principle a three year arrangement for Ethiopia under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) for SDR 87 million (about US$112 million) to support the government's 2000/01-2002/03 economic program.
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SOURCE: IMF
March 20, 2001
ADDIS ABABA -- The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Tuesday described as an "important development" the detailed military minefield information the mission received on Monday from Eritrea.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
March 19, 2001
ADDIS ABABA -- An ammunition accident injured 3 Canadian members of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Monday morning at Camp Dunn in the mission's Central Sector, according to a UNMEE press release available here.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
March 19, 2001
Arusha -- The 19 parties in the Burundi peace talks make another attempt here today to break the impasse in the country's transitional leadership and end bloodshed in the tiny central African country
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SOURCE: All Africa Global
March 19, 2001
ADDIS ABABA -- Britain Monday deposited to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) the instrument of ratification on the African Nuclear Weapons-Free-Zone in accordance with the provisions of Article 21 of the Treaty of Pelindaba.
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SOURCE: Xinhua News Agency
March 19, 2001
Reports submitted by the Governments of Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Uzbekistan, Croatia and Syria on their implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights will be considered by the Human Rights Committee at its seventy-first session, which will be held at Headquarters from 19 March to 6 April.
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SOURCE: M2 Communications Ltd.
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