News
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Foreign Affairs
November 26, 2001
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UNMEE public information
Edited transcript of press conference by the special representative for the secretary general Legwaila Joseph Legwaila
23 November 2001
"In accordance with Article 13 of the Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities, I call again on Eritrea to grant UNMEE the freedom of movement we require in the area adjacent to the northern boundary of the TSZ so that our peacekeeping troops and military observers can monitor the redeployed armed forces of Eritrea."
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Ethiopian troops cross into Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Several hundred Ethiopian troops have moved into northeastern Somalia's breakaway Puntland state, sources who monitor the situation said Saturday.
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Ethiopia's foreign debt stands at 5.6bn dollars, ministry
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Nov 24, 2001
Addis Ababa, 23 November: Ethiopia's foreign debt total amount has gone down to 5.6bn US dollars, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development said.
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Athletics: Beware lions, cows and bulls on run in Ethiopia
The Independent - United Kingdom; Nov 24, 2001
BY MIKE ROWBOTTOM
BEING HAILE GEBRSELASSIE is not without problems. After all, when you have established total dominance in your field, as the little Ethiopian has in collecting two Olympic and four world 10,000 metre titles over the last decade, where do you go?
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USA, African countries approve anti-terrorism security pact - paper
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Nov 23, 2001
The USA and the governments of Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea and Djibouti have approved a security agreement that aims to set up a security belt to encircle the terrorists in the Horn of Africa and establish a joint mechanism for fighting terrorism between Washington and these countries. |
US shuts down Somalia internet
BBC (Friday November 23, 2001)
Somalia's only internet company and a key telecoms business have been forced to close because the United States suspects them of terrorist links.
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Italy, Australia Announce Debt Relief
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
November 21, 2001
The Italian government has cancelled a US $375 million debt owed by Ethiopia, the pro-government Walta Information Centre reported on Tuesday. |
President Girma back home after 40 days treatment in Saudi
The reporter
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Ethiopian foreign minister warns of renewed conflict with Eritrea
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Nov 20, 2001
Source: Radio Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, in Amharic 1700 gmt 20 Nov 01
Ethiopia says the destructive activities by the shabiyyah [Eritrean government] in the Temporary Security Zone which violated the agreement reached by both countries could lead to renewed conflict.
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UNMEE PUBLIC INFORMATION: Edited transcript of 16 November 2001 press briefing (Must read line by line)
"UNMEE patrols continue to face restrictions on Freedom of Movement by the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) in the central sector in the adjacent areas north of the TSZ..."
Question from Addis Ababa: You are talking as if UNMEE has established a TSZ, is it 25 kilometers wide or something else?
"We do not only talk about the TSZ being established. It has been established. It was established in April this year, and it is working. The TSZ is a reality. And we are very grateful for the cooperation that we are receiving from both sides. It is true that both sides have not formally accepted the TSZ. Nevertheless, this TSZ is functioning, and we have taken journalists, diplomats and visitors to the TSZ. It is 25 km wide but the terrain, the topography will not really allow such a place to be 25 kms wide absolutely everywhere. So it could be a bit less here and a bit more there.
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Breaking News
Eritrea invades Ethiopia, controls parts of Badme
By Sophia Alula
Deki-Alula Ethiopian Online Staff Writer
November 18, 2001
TAHTAI DEDAA, northern Ethiopia, Nov 18 (Deki-Alula) - Backed with heavy artillery and tanks, Eritrea invaded and controlled areas north of Badme yesterday, an independent newspaper reported today.
The Tigrinya-language newspaper Wogahta broke the news of Eritrea's invasion of sovereign Ethiopian territory today quoting a journalist in the area and Ethiopian and Eritrean eye-witnesses who were fleeing the area under invasion.
ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: UN calls for flexibility
NAIROBI, 19 Nov 2001 (IRIN) - Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin told the United Nations General Assembly at its 56th session in New York on 15 November that Eritrea was assembling its armed forces along its border with Ethiopia. "Under these circumstances, lack of vigilance on the part of UNMEE [United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea] and its policy of appeasement appear to be making another round of fighting close to inevitable," he warned.
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Somalia
The Guardian - United Kingdom; Nov 17, 2001
Somalia would be an easy target as it is a "failed" state that is even more run-down than Afghanistan.
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Ethiopia: United political prisoner's committee calls for release of prisoners
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Nov 15, 2001
"The United Political Prisoners of Ethiopia Committee has said that three months into the Ethiopian new year Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government has elected a new president, and in the name of renewal process, named its cabinet, but has refused to pardon thousands of political prisoners it detained and who are languishing inside many prisons of the country.
In a report released this week, the committee said there were some 15,000 political prisoners in Ethiopia in the remote parts of Tigray [Regional State] and in other parts of the country."
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World Bank may loan Africa $500 million for AIDS
KAMPALA, Uganda (Reuters) -- The World Bank will soon consider lending Africa an extra $500 million to help combat the AIDS epidemic ravaging the world's poorest continent, a senior bank official said on Wednesday.
AIDS Resource Center to be Created in Ethiopia by Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs with CDC Support
Great Need in Ethiopia for Up-To-Date Information on HIV/AIDS
Words Fail Africa in Fight Against AIDS
By Matthew Green
NAIROBI (Reuters) - If African leaders could cure AIDS (news - web sites) with speeches, the epidemic scything its way across the continent would have been vanquished long ago.
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Donors, African experts say meeting fruitful and interactive
The Reporter
By a special correspondent
A meeting bringing together representatives of nine African countries and donor experts took place on November 7 in Addis Ababa, at the United Nations Economic Commission For Africa (UNEECA).
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TPLF's Key Businessman Dies in Washington DC
By Gebre-hiwot Baikedagne
Deki-Alula Ethiopian Online Staff Writer
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Ethiopia: Government to issue new ID cards to Somalis
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Nov 14, 2001
The Security, Immigration and Refugees Affairs Authority has urged Somali nationals residing in Ethiopia to obtain temporary identification cards that would enable them to get hawala [money transfer] services from legal banks and organizations engaged in money transfer.
Police Close All Somali Remittance Banks
Ethiopian police closed down all Addis Ababa-based branches of Somali remittance banks on Monday, sparking angry scenes in the Ethiopian capital. |
Ethiopia Suffers Great Losses From Illicit Cross Border Trade
ADDIS ABABA, November 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ethiopian Livestock
Marketing Authority has said Ethiopia was losing about 84.3
million U.S.
Ethiopia qualifies for debt relief under HIPC initiative
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Nov 13, 2001
Nairobi, 13 November: The World Bank and the IMF this week announced that Ethiopia had qualified for debt relief amounting to US 1.9bn US dollars under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.
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Ethiopia Urged to Use Information Technology for Anti-AIDS Campaign
XINHUANET
ADDIS ABABA, November 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ethiopian Science and
Technology Commission has said the anti-AIDS campaign underway
throughout the country should be supported by information
technology, the Walta Information Center reported here on
Wednesday.
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Ethiopia Delays Ambassador Appointment due to President's Illness
ADDIS ABABA, November 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Ethiopia has delayed the
appointment of new ambassadors due to the absence of the country's
President Girma Wolde-Giorgis who is currently in Saudi Arabia for
medical treatment, the local Reporter weekly newspaper said here
Wednesday.
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Breaking News
American Airlines jet crashes in New York
NEW YORK (CNN) -- An American Airlines jet with 255 people on board crashed Monday in a residential neighborhood after taking off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300, went down at 9:17 a.m. EST in the Rockaway section of the New York City borough of Queens about five miles from Kennedy airport.
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Ethiopia: Friend or Foe?
WashingtonPost (Monday, November 12, 2001; Page A24)
But the Ethiopian government is a mono-ethnic dictatorship that established itself in the place of the defunct military junta.
With thousands of Ethiopians arbitrarily killed, jailed or exiled, the government has one of the worst human rights records in Africa. Its policy of religious and ethnic manipulation for political ends has contributed to the rise of fundamentalism, Christian as well as Muslim, which no doubt could be exploited by terrorists.
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UN Mission Says Peacekeepers Movements Restricted by Eritrean Forces
XINHUANET 2001-11-11 04:27:15
ADDIS ABABA, November 10 (Xinhuanet) -- The United Nations mission
in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has said that its peacekeeping
forces along the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) between the borders
of Ethiopia and Eritrea were still restricted in their movements
by Eritrean forces, the Ethiopian News Agency reported Saturday.
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Embassy sends out letters to non-Tigrian Ethiopians
November 7, 2001
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Tigrians in Seattle Found Solidarity Chapter
By Gebre-Hiwot Baikedagne
November 10, 2001
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Commentaries/Critiques
Ethiopian beats Russian, wins Tokyo Marathon
TOKYO - Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu won the Tokyo International Women's Marathon on Sunday, taking the lead with 1.8 miles left and beating Russia's Irina Timofeyeva by 21 seconds.
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Stop the murder of school children and innocent civilians in Ethiopia
November 17, 2001
By TISJD Human Rights Committee
Tigrayns not welcome in to Ethiopian Embassy
By Brhane from Washington DC
"Sunday around 2:20pm we were in Washington DC, driving on the road and listen Ethiopian Radio station and chatting politics. Interviews were being conducted with Embassy staff members, the radio host asks "why aren't all Ethiopians participate at the meeting hosted for the guess speaker Foreign Minister Seyum Mesfine. Regardless of that accretion, three Tigrayn origins were decided to go in to the meeting. At the Embassy doorway we approached by three local DC cadres " (METESA)"
Daniel in Love
Story by Dr, Teodros Kiros
Asmara was lively. Daniel was biking through the long asphalted streets
illuminated by long elegant lamps in the early summer evening, through the
thickly and majestic eucalyptus trees dancing to the cool breeze.
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The dissident speaks out the truth
TPLF official says leaving Assab Port in Eritrean Hand was major TPLF blunder
By Sophia Alula (Deki-Alula Ethiopian Online Staff Writer)
November 12, 2001
"Gebru Asrat, former Tigray regional state governor ousted by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi duringTPLF politburo failed wrangling to charge the premier with treason last March, admitted he himself was "fooled" by the pro-Eritrean camp making up the Meles Zenawi regime that no single question was raised by Addis Ababa as Eritrea made it away by wrapping the key Ethiopian outlet to the sea 10 years ago."
"Despite the cadres of Meles Zenawi, who repeatedly shed crocodile tears that the Prime Minister should not be accused of "serving Eritrean interests" because he was half-Eritrean, many Ethiopians judge Meles not by conducting DNA blood tests but by his life-long servitude to Eritrea that ranged from writing enthusiastically about the 'colonial' history of Eritrea ("The Struggle of Eritrea from Where to Where?": 1983)....."
Read detail report and News in Deki-Alula Ethiopian Online Newsletter
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The borrowed phrases "Bonopartism" and "revolutionary democracy" marked a total rejection by our people
Alemante Desu
SUSAN RICE states: "One of the tragedies of this conflict is that they've agreed from virtually day one on how to end the conflict. They have agreed that the end state for peace is a final and permanent demarcation of the border. But there have been various disagreements on how to get there." Now Meles and his yes man US ambassador Berhane G.kirstos are accusing her for domestic propaganda consumption to cover up their treason charges.
The reign of Meles the Evil in the Era of the murderers
By Teka Germay (November 06, 2001)
"The most relevant aspect of the Eritrean struggle for the analysis of the Meles regime is the fact that a big part of the Eritrean Elite was armed with hatred towards Ethiopia and produced more hatred in the course of the struggle. Individuals like Meles and Sebhat belong to the Eritrean elite with an anti Ethiopian Psychological make up, be it inside Eritrea or Ethiopia: Even Tigrians brought up in Eritrea, like Woldeab Woldemariam and Esayas Afeworki who were integrated in the atmosphere of hatred towards Ethiopia became amongst the most prominent anti Ethiopian individuals and persisted in their position up to the bitter end. ..."
Supremacy of the Prime Minister
TISJD Editorial (November 6, 2001)
"...Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has been engaged in routine acts of harassing citizens and infringing upon the constitutionally guaranteed rights of citizens - all in the name of respecting and protecting the constitution and all other laws of the land. The technique used by the PM is built on one principle, i.e.,: "if there is any provision on the books, fine, use that; if not just cook-up or conjure an excuse and put all my enemies behind bars"...".
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The dissident speaks out the truth – Read detail report in Amharic The Reporter
(Historical fact: Must read)
Two groups of the TPLF and two issues of Ethiopia (Part III)
Power struggle and the MLLT from 1979 to 1985
Tesfay Atsbeha and Kahsay Berhe; E-mail: Bkahsay@aol.com
October 28, 2001
Reference
Two groups of the TPLF and two issues of Ethiopia (Part II)
The democratic and human rights crises from 1977 to 1979
Two groups of the TPLF and two issues of Ethiopia (Part I)
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