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Ethiopia signs peace deal with Ogaden rebel group
published 32 days, 18 hours ago posted by adminadmin 32 days, 18 hours, 11 minutes ago
Monday, August 02, 2010 5:42:56 AM GMT Monday, August 02, 2010 5:31:31 AM GMT
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
published 44 days, 19 hours, 6 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 44 days, 19 hours, 20 minutes ago
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4:36:53 AM GMT Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4:23:03 AM GMT
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
published 59 days, 18 hours, 37 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 59 days, 18 hours, 45 minutes ago
Tuesday, July 06, 2010 5:05:46 AM GMT Tuesday, July 06, 2010 4:57:45 AM GMT
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
published 85 days, 16 hours, 32 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 85 days, 16 hours, 34 minutes ago
Thursday, June 10, 2010 7:11:11 AM GMT Thursday, June 10, 2010 7:08:20 AM GMT
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
published 173 days, 19 hours, 16 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 173 days, 19 hours, 41 minutes ago
Sunday, March 14, 2010 4:26:46 AM GMT Sunday, March 14, 2010 4:01:34 AM GMT
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
published 239 days, 15 hours, 11 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 239 days, 15 hours, 32 minutes ago
Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:31:33 AM GMT Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:10:52 AM GMT
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
published 326 days, 18 hours, 22 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 326 days, 18 hours, 29 minutes ago
Monday, October 12, 2009 5:20:46 AM GMT Monday, October 12, 2009 5:14:08 AM GMT
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
published 341 days, 16 hours, 28 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 344 days, 17 hours, 16 minutes ago
Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:15:04 AM GMT Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:27:05 AM GMT
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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