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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 2 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is extremely concerned by U.N. reports that former foes Ethiopia and Eritrea have moved troops and tanks toward their shared border, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Full Report
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November 2 2005 (BBC) -Hundreds of heavily armed police and troops deployed across the city as the sounds of heavy machine guns and loud explosions reverberated. Doctors told reporters of more than 150 people coming to hospital wounded in clashes between stone-throwing opposition supporters and police .Full Report
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November 1 2005 (BBC) -
Some 250 riot police went to disperse stone-throwing protesters who had set up roadblocks with burning tyres in the central Mercato area of Addis Ababa..Full Report
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October 29 2005 (New York) - Alarmed by the growing tension between Eritrea and Ethiopia, the United Nations Security Council is discussing a draft resolution that calls on the two rival neighbours to implement a decision by an international commission on their border dispute .Full Report
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Oct 28 (Reuters) - Eritrea repeated its criticism of the United Nations on Friday for failing to enforce a ruling over its border with Ethiopia, source of a 1998-2000 war, saying the inaction was resulting in a violation of its sovereign land. .Full Report
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Oct 27, 2005 (Africa News) Addis Ababa - The U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea said Thursday it was vacating 18 observation camps owing to restrictions imposed on its helicopter flights. Full Report
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Oct 27th 2005 (The Economist- ASMARA) WHAT better way to settle an ugly third-world border dispute than through arbitration? What better example of conflict resolution to press upon two rancorous rivals, Ethiopia and Eritrea, who in 1998-2000 fought a bitter border war that cost 70,000 lives? That is why, as part of the peace deal that ended the war at the urging of America, the European Union and the Africa Union, the two countries asked the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague to fix their border. But the court awarded the most hotly disputed piece of turf, the town of Badme, to Eritrea—the smaller nation,.Full Report
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ASMARA, Oct 26 (AFP) - Eritrea is denying widespread speculation that its recent rapprochement with neighboring one-time foe Sudan is aimed at securing its western border in the event of new war over its southern frontier with arch-rival Ethiopia..Full Report
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October 25, 2005 (VOA New) The U.S. State Department has expressed concern about tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea over their lingering border dispute. .Full Report
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October 24 2005 (FP) Five years after United Nations peacekeepers deployed to Ethiopia and Eritrea to help end their devastating border conflict, the mission has been rendered virtually impotent and there are increasing concerns the two countries could return to war. Full Report
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October 22, 2005 (Star Tribune) - Top leaders of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which has waged an armed struggle against the Ethiopian government, held a community forum in Minneapolis on Saturday to discuss a possible change in strategy. Full Report
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22th OCT 2005 : (United Nations) United Nations: Eritrea has rejected an appeal by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to lift a ban on helicopter flights by the UN peace-keeping mission despite a warning by India, which has the biggest contingent deployed there, that such hurdles would jeopardise the safety of the personnel. Full Report
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October 21, 2005 (Angola Press) - Their personal accounts of survival in poverty are emotionally gripping and profoundly disgusting, yet Ethiopia`s street children are avowedly determined not to go back to their countryside roots. Full Report
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21/10/2005 (SA) Asmara - Eritrea on Thursday accused arch-foe Ethiopia of "duplicity" for complaining about alleged Eritrean violations of a 2000 peace deal as tensions over their common border soared amid fears of new conflict. Full Report
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October 19, 2005 (BBC) A police commander said the Coalition for Unity and Democracy members were caught with a cache of arms in Oromia State, some 250km east of the capital. Full Report
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Isolated, authoritarian Eritrea often gets blamed for tensions along its border with Ethiopia, with whom it fought a war devastating to both desperately poor countries..Full Report
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NAIROBI, 17 October (IRIN) - The UN Security Council has condemned the increase in the flow of arms and ammunition into Somalia in violation of a 13-year-old arms embargo against the war-scarred Horn of Africa nation .Full Report
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Monday 17 October 2005 (ADDIS ABABA) - Days after the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) decided to boycott parliament unless the ruling EPRDF accedes to the 8 preconditions it set, the National Electoral Board (NEB) disclosed that it does not recognize the recent merger that took place in the Coalition .Full Report
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Sunday, 16 October, 2005, 12:25 PM Doha Time
MOGADISHU: Less than a day after the UN Security Council condemned huge violations of a 13-year-old
arms embargo on Somalia, Somali witnesses yesterday made fresh allegations of illicit weapons entering
the lawless country.
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TORONTO -(October 13, 2005 ) An Ethiopian journalist who has been working for Radio Fana, a station owned by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, has reportedly sought a political asylum in Toronto .Full Report
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Development and cooperation - 13-10-2005 - 13:02
The European Parliament is seriously concerned that the political dialogue between the Ethiopian government and the opposition has broken down due to the ruling party's stance. It urges all parties to resume the talks immediately and work towards a functioning democracy with the rights of the opposition fully respected. Full Report
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OCT. 10, 2005 (BBC) The opening of Ethiopia's parliament for the first time since disputed polls was boycotted by most opposition MPs.
President Girma Giorgis rebuked absent members, accusing them of failing to use democratic means to address their complaints over May's election results. Full Report
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THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER N°1151 - 08/10/2005
Two members of the central committee of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF , Ethiopian opposition in exile), Hassen Hussen and Shigut Geleta have had meetings with officials from the European Commission and Members of the European Parliament in Brussels at the beginning of this week. The purpose of their mission was to obtain EU involvement in the reconciliation process between the OLF and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has publicly stated that he was ready to enter dialogue with the OLF without pre-conditions.
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September 29, 2005 (AP) - Ethiopian authorities have arrested hundreds of opposition supporters and killed one in the past 11 days before a major opposition rally scheduled for this weekend, opposition leaders said Thursday. Full Report
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September 27, 2005 (AFP) — Ethiopian police have arrested more than 80 people and seized weapons amid government allegations that opposition groups are plotting a coup d’etat, the state-run news agency said Monday. Full Report
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Norway welcomes the signals by the Ethiopian Government
Norway welcomes the signals by the Ethiopian Government that it is willing to begin talks with the opposition movement Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). “This is an important step towards finding a solution to the conflict that has undermined Ethiopia’s political and economic development for many years,” said State Secretary Vidar Helgesen. Full Report
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TPLF looks to Tigray's secession
September 29, 2005 (IRN) - The executives of the Tigray People's Liberation Front are debating the feasibility of the "extreme" option of the secession of the Tigray Regional State. Full Report |
Ethiopia seeks Somalia disintegration - minister
September 18, 2005 (BBC) - The minister of trade of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, Muse Sudi Yalahow, has said that Ethiopian was opposed to restoration of peace in Somalia. Full Report
Top Ethiopian MP seeks asylum in US
September 17, 2005 (Ethiomedia) - A top Ethiopian parliamentarian has sought a political asylum in the US, an opposition radio reported Saturday. Full Report
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