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ETHIOPIA News:
20051121
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Ethiopia
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 Police
-  EU
- "Violence
in Ethiopia Inspires Regional Rally: Community Holds
Protests, Raises Funds to Spotlight Unrest After Elections Abroad." ...
"More than 40 people died and thousands were detained this month after
demonstrators contested the May 15 election results that favored Prime
Minister Meles Zenawi and his ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary
Democratic Front. Medical officials have said police have killed many of
the victims; Meles contends that the opposition groups are responsible
for inciting the violence." ... "The groups say the election was rigged,
and European Union officials have said the election did not meet international
standards. But government officials say the irregularities were not significant
enough to have swayed the election." -By Aruna Jain-WashingtonPost
20051107
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Ethiopia
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 Politics
- "Ethiopia
PM regrets protest dead: Ethiopian Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi has said he regrets the deaths of at least 46 people killed
in last week's anti-government protests." ... "But he said it was understandable
that police had panicked when facing protesters with hand grenades and
guns." ... "Speaking in Germany, Mr Zenawi accused the opposition of provoking
unrest." ... "The unrest first erupted on Tuesday after the opposition
accused the government of rigging the 15 May elections and there are fears
of more protests." ... "The elections saw Mr Zenawi's Ethiopian Peoples
Revolutionary Democratic Front take control of two-thirds of the country's
parliament." ... "After the clashes, many opposition leaders were detained."-BBC
/News
20051104
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Ethiopia
- Politics
- "Ethiopian
unrest spreads." ... "Gunfire echoed sporadically
around Addis Ababa for a fourth day on Friday as reports emerged that unrest
had spread beyond the capital, a development likely to deepen international
concern for Ethiopia's stability." ... "Residents contacted by telephone
said students in Dessie town, 400 km (250 miles) north of Addis Ababa had
thrown stones at police who dispersed them by firing in the air." ... "Amhara
region is the base of the Amhara people who make up about a fifth of the
ethnically-diverse nation of 77 million, sub-Saharan Africa's second most
populous after Nigeria." (1, 2)
-By Tsegaye Tadesse -Reuters
via -ABCNEWS.com
20051103
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Ethiopia
- Politics
- "More
violence in Ethiopia capital: Three more people have
been killed in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, in a third day of clashes
between opposition supporters and the police." ... "The riots were part
of protests against the general election in May, which the governing party
won. The opposition says voting and counting were rigged." ... "The main
opposition party, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy, resumed protests
this week after its members refused to attend parliamentary sessions."
... "Security officers have arrested all 15 members of the CUD's Central
Committee and about 1,000 supporters according to a lawyer for the party."-BBC
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- "Ethiopia
rounds up youths in post-violence crackdown." ...
"Ethiopian security forces rounded up dozens of youths into trucks and
kept 14 opposition members in detention on Friday as part of an ongoing
crackdown on post-election unrest this week that has killed 27 people."
... "The violence flared after weeks of opposition accusations that the
ruling party intimidated voters and rigged the polls." ... "Early results
show the EPRDF [Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front ] and
allies won enough seats for a third five-year term ruling the nation of
72 million, sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous. But the CUD [Coalition
for Unity and Democracy] surprisingly increased its share of parliamentary
seats by nearly tenfold and made a clean sweep in Addis Ababa." -By
Katie Nguyen with contributions by Andrew Heavens
-Reuters via -AlertNet.org/Newsdesk
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- "Oldest
Human Fossils Identified." ... "Human fossils found
38 years ago in Africa are 65,000 years older than previously thought,
a new study says—pushing the dawn of "modern" humans back 35,000 years."
... "New dating techniques indicate that the fossils are 195,000 years
old. The two skulls and some bones were first uncovered on opposite sides
of Ethiopia's Omo River in 1967 by a team led by Richard Leakey. The fossils,
dubbed Omo I and Omo II, were dated at the time as being about 130,000
years old. But even then the researchers themselves questioned the accuracy
of the dating technique." ... "The new findings, published in the February
17 issue of the journal Nature, establish Omo I and II as the oldest
known fossils of modern humans. The prior record holders were fossils from
Herto, Ethiopia, which dated the emergence of modern humans in Africa to
about 160,000 years ago." -By Hillary Mayell
-NationalGeographic>News
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- "State
Department Noon Briefing Transcript [List of the 30 Nations Supporting
US Disarmament of Iraq]." ... "BRIEFER: Richard
Boucher, Spokesman." ... "MR. BOUCHER: There are 30 countries who have
agreed to be part of the coalition for the immediate disarmament of Iraq.
I'd have to say these are countries that we have gone to and said, "Do
you want to be listed?" and they have said, "Yes."" ... "They are: Afghanistan,
Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark,
El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy,
Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua,
the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and Uzbekistan." ... "In addition to these countries, there are actually
another 15 or so that we know of, probably more than 15, that are cooperating
with us in -- and the coalition, or perhaps offering defensive assets in
the event that Saddam resorts to the use of weapons of mass destruction."
-Washington
File -State.gov
