News: Ethiopia

We have started to collect the most important news related to Ethiopia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Ethiopia: news

Ethiopia plays down Somali threat

Wednesday, December 13th 2006, 12:32
related countries: Somalia

Ethiopia's PM brushes off a deadline given by Somalia's powerful Islamist group for his troops to leave.
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Mengistu found guilty of genocide

Tuesday, December 12th 2006, 17:48

Ethiopia's Marxist former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam is found guilty in absentia of genocide after a 12-year trial.
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Ethiopia deadline to quit Somalia

Tuesday, December 12th 2006, 11:07
related countries: Somalia

Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or face a "major attack".
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Second day of clashes in Somalia

Saturday, December 9th 2006, 15:43
related countries: Somalia

Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops reportedly clash with Islamists for a second day in Somalia.
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'Heavy fighting' in Somali town

Friday, December 8th 2006, 15:41
related countries: Somalia

An Islamist leader calls on all Somalis to fight Ethiopia, saying its troops have attacked Islamist positions.
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Ethiopian soldiers 'defect'

Thursday, December 7th 2006, 7:58
related countries: Eritrea, Somalia

Eight Ethiopian soldiers have defected to Eritrea over the issue of Somalia, Eritrea's government says.
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Islamists 'ambush' Ethiopia truck

Thursday, November 30th 2006, 10:45
related countries: Somalia

An Ethiopian military convoy in Somalia is reportedly ambushed by Islamist fighters who say 20 were killed.
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Horn border foes given one year

Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 15:55
related countries: Eritrea

Eritrea and Ethiopia are given a year to physically mark out their shared border or face having it set for them.
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Ethiopian 'clash' with Islamists

Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 13:05
related countries: Somalia

Ethiopian troops fired rockets at a strategic town north of Somalia's capital, Islamist officials tell a rally.
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Ethiopia warning draws Somali ire

Friday, November 24th 2006, 8:06
related countries: Somalia

The body that controls much of Somalia reacts angrily to comments by Ethiopia that it is prepared for an attack.
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Ethiopia 'ready for Islamist war'

Thursday, November 23rd 2006, 10:22
related countries: Somalia

Ethiopia makes preparations for a conflict with Somalia's Islamist group, the prime minister says.
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Horn rivals reject border plans

Tuesday, November 21st 2006, 10:40
related countries: Eritrea

Ethiopia and Eritrea reject a boundary commission proposal to demarcate their disputed border.
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Discarded blood protest in Israel

Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 10:15
related countries: Israel

About 200 people protest in Jerusalem against the policy of rejecting blood donated by Ethiopian-Israelis.
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Ethiopia's top judge flees threats

Monday, November 6th 2006, 17:17

Ethiopia's most senior judge, Teshale Aberra, is to seek UK asylum saying the government is killing its critics.
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Father jailed for US mutilation

Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 0:53
related countries: United States

An Ethiopian man is jailed for genital mutilation of his daughter, in the first such case in the United States.
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Ethiopia food aid 'habit' worsens

Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 12:41
related countries: United States

Ethiopia is locked into a vicious downward spiral of aid dependency, a US-based crop monitoring agency warns.
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Ethiopia hit by new deadly floods

Tuesday, October 31st 2006, 13:40

At least 67 people are killed and 300,000 affected after floods hit Ethiopia, for the second time this year.
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Row threatens Somali peace talks

Monday, October 30th 2006, 17:11
related countries: Somalia

Somalia's Islamists refuse to take part in peace talks unless Ethiopian troops leave the country.
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Somalis protest against Ethiopia

Friday, October 27th 2006, 14:50

Thousands of young Muslim men demonstrate in support of a call for a holy war against Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia releases detained lawyer

Friday, October 27th 2006, 11:47
related countries: Kenya

A European Commission lawyer held in Ethiopia after trying to cross into Kenya is freed without charge.
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Starbucks in Ethiopia coffee row

Thursday, October 26th 2006, 7:17

Ethiopian farmers are being denied millions in profits by US coffee chain Starbucks, Oxfam says.
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Starbucks in Ethiopia coffee row

Thursday, October 26th 2006, 7:17

Oxfam accuses coffee chain Starbucks of denying Ethiopia huge earnings by blocking a trademark application.
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