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/ 4 December 2007

Ethiopia: World is forgetting Somalia

Ethiopia has warned that the world’s disinterest in sending peacekeepers to Somalia was dampening hopes of achieving peace in the shattered African nation. Of the 8 000 peacekeepers the African Union pledged to send to bolster President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed’s weak government, only 1 500 Ugandan troops are actually on the ground.

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/ 1 November 2007

War fears swell refugee camp near Eritrea border

There is a settlement in Ethiopia where houses are in high demand, new restaurants and bars open often and nearly 700 people moved in last month alone. But Shimelba is a refugee camp, not a boom town, and its residents — exiles from neighbouring Eritrea whose ranks are swelling at an alarming rate — are uniformly miserable.

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/ 29 October 2007

Ethiopia denies plot to attack Eritrea

An Eritrean allegation that Ethiopia planned to invade the Red Sea state in early November was an absurd fabrication, an Ethiopian official said on Monday. Addis Ababa and Asmara have been locked in a bitter border dispute since a boundary commission awarded Eritrea the town of Badme, a flash point of the 1998 to 2000 border war.

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/ 27 October 2007

Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of plotting to invade

Eritrea accused arch-foe Ethiopia on Saturday of plotting to invade it ahead of a late-November deadline to mark their disputed border on maps. Analysts and diplomats fear heightened tensions on the Horn of Africa rivals’ frontier could erupt into a new conflict seven years after they fought a war that killed about 70 000 people.

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/ 21 October 2007

Rebels claim they killed 140 Ethiopian troops

Ethiopia’s Ogaden National Liberation Front rebels said they killed 140 government soldiers in a weekend assault targeting a senior official, a statement Ethiopia immediately denounced as false. Both sides routinely claim to inflict large numbers of casualties on the other, but the reports are difficult to independently verify.

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/ 3 September 2007

Ethiopia rebels declare ceasefire for UN visit

Rebels in Ethiopia’s volatile east declared a unilateral ceasefire so the United Nations can investigate their claims of human rights abuses in the region. The Ogaden National Liberation Front rebels, ethnic Somalis who have been fighting the government for more than a decade, said they will only defend themselves if attacked.