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Rising hunger in south Ethiopia despite lush green

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Malnourished children are flocking into feeding centers in this forested corner of southern Ethiopia after a drought in East Africa extended into this normally fertile region. While the famine in southern Somalia has grabbed headlines, southern Ethiopia is teetering on the brink of a food crisis. The Ethiopian government says 250,000 people need food aid amid what the U.N. says is the worst drought in 60 years. An aid organization and agricultural officials say the number of people who need emergency foo... (more)

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Government Claims to sign peace deal with rebel group

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Ethiopia says they've signed a peace deal with a major rebel group in the country's volatile east. The government says the Ogaden National Liberation Front agreed Tuesday to end its long-running insurgency in Somali Regional State and join the political process. (more)

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Ethiopia signs peace deal with Ogaden rebel group

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The Ethiopian government is to sign a peace deal with the United Western Somali Liberation Front. (more)

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Ethiopia: Containing al-Shabab

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Andrew Harding BBC It’s ten years since I covered my first Somali peace deal story. It was on a scorching hilltop in Djibouti and everyone was talking hopefully about how this, the 13th peace process I think, would finally end the anarchy and violence. It didn’t and nor did the many deals that followed. Somalia [...] (more)

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Opposition candidate wins presidential vote in Somaliland

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elected an opposition party candidate, Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo of the Kulmiye party, to be their next president. The incumbent president, Dahir Riyale Kahin, which came in a distant second, has promised to honor the result. If this comes to fruition and Mr. Kahin hands the reigns of power to Mr. Silanyo, then we are at the cusp of witnessing history being made in the Horn of Africa, namely the first peaceful transfer of power from a ruling party to an opposition party. What a tremendous accomplishment for ... (more)

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British citizen shot dead in Ethiopia’s Ogaden

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8 June 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) – A second British citizen is reported having been shot to death in the volatile Ogaden region of Ethiopia bordering Somalia, a Source said. (more)

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Ethiopian Invasion of Somalia, a Debacle U.S. Official says

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U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs Secretary Donald Yamamoto said that the invasion of Ethiopian forces in 2006 in Somalia was a mistake. Yamamoto spoke at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs when he joined the Minister of Information for Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Dahir Gelle, to discuss foreign policy with the [...] (more)

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Somaliland, Putland in border row

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While the rest of Somalia remains in turmoil , Puntland and Somali land regions have been enjoying relative peace. But a border dispute between Puntland and Somaliland is now threatening that peace. Yassin Juma was in the disputed region to find out just who is in control. (more)

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Ethiopian troops enter into Somalia

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Heavily armed Ethiopian troops crossed over into some villages in Somalia's central border town of Beledweyne and arrested some villagers they suspected of being Islamist sympathizers, witnesses said on Sunday. (more)

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Ethiopian rebels deny helping Somali Islamists

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Ethiopian rebels deny helping Somali Islamists ADDIS ABABA, Sept 22 (Reuters) – An Ethiopian rebel group denied on Tuesday it is helping Islamist militants in neighbouring Somalia who are waging a violent rebellion against the country’s U.N.-backed government. Al Shaabab, the main rebel group that Washington says is al Qaeda’s proxy in Somalia, on Sunday seized control [...] (more)

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