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/ 26 December 2006
Somalia’s Islamists are in full retreat after Ethiopian air strikes and a ground offensive that have killed up to 1 000 of the religious movement’s fighters, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Tuesday. ”A joint Somali government and Ethiopian force has broken the back of the international terrorist forces … These forces are in full retreat,” Meles told reporters in Addis Ababa.
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/ 12 December 2006
Ethiopia’s former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam was found guilty in absentia of genocide on Tuesday at the end of a 12-year trial over his bloody rule. Mengistu, who now lives in Zimbabwe, was accused with top members of his military government of killing thousands during a 17-year rule that began with the toppling of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 and included war, purges and famine.
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/ 29 November 2006
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Shivering under a tattered blanket, a young woman tries to sleep at the foot of the mist-shrouded Entoto Mountain, north of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. ”I decided to come to Entoto to seek a cure from the holy water after a doctor told me that I am HIV-positive,” Abebech Alemu (35) said.
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/ 10 October 2006
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo warned of a possible genocide in the Darfur region on Tuesday, as cash-strapped African peacekeepers struggle to stem the violence in Sudan’s remote west. Nigeria is the largest troop-contributing nation to the African Union (AU) force in Darfur, which is caught in an international diplomatic tug-of-war over a United Nations takeover of the peacekeeping mission.
The crocodile ranch lies almost hidden and largely forgotten behind the airport in Ethiopia’s southern town of Arba Minch. The country’s first crocodile farm, it was built by an enterprising government official in the 1980s to generate foreign currency in one of Africa’s poorest countries, where people mainly live from subsistence farming.
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/ 25 September 2006
The African Union will add 4Â 000 troops to its extended Darfur peacekeeping mission, bringing the number of police and soldiers in western Sudan to 11Â 000, a spokesperson for the AU said on Monday. ”The Peace and Security Council of the AU … has endorsed the new concept of operation,” said Assan Ba, spokesperson for the AU in Addis Ababa.
Diarrhoea has killed 150 people and infected nearly 12Â 000 in flood-ravaged Ethiopia, the United Nations said on Monday, as aid agencies and governments struggled to deliver food and supplies to tens of thousands left homeless. Flash floods that began swamping villages and towns earlier this month have already killed about 900 people.
Ethiopia’s 1 700-year-old obelisk, returned to the country 14 months ago, will be re-erected after the rainy season that ends in September, the United Nations agency in charge of culture said on Monday. Stolen by Italian fascist invaders in the 1930s, the Ethiopian national treasure was returned in April last year.
Horn of Africa power Ethiopia said on Thursday it was tracking military movements by Somalia’s newly powerful Islamists and would ”crush” any attack on President Abdullahi Yusuf’s interim government. ”We will use all means at our disposal to crush the Islamist group if they attempt to attack Baidoa, the seat of the transitional federal government,” said Ethiopian Information Minister Berhan Hailu.