Kidnap throws spotlight on barren corner of Ethiopia
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BERAHILE, Ethiopia  - The mysterious kidnapping of five Europeans and eight locals has put the international spotlight on a remote, barren and searingly hot corner of Ethiopia left behind by the modern world.
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ADDIS ABABA - Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, a Briton and an Italian, are missing and believed kidnapped in a remote area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate, ...Comment
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Ethiopian officials on Saturday accused forces from archrival Eritrea of kidnapping five British citizens and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote region near the African countries' long-disputed border, then taking the group to a military camp in Eritrea.
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Ethiopia's prime minister said Monday that officials have a good idea of the whereabouts of five Europeans kidnapped in one of the country's most remote, inhospitable regions.
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Fears rose Tuesday for a British embassy group abducted last week in the Ethiopian desert after the discovery of their bullet-riddled cars near the Eritrean border.
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Five Europeans abducted almost two weeks ago in one of Ethiopia's most remote, inhospitable regions were released Tuesday and are in good health, the British government said.
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Ethiopian security forces  scoured a remote northeastern region on Monday in search of a  group of kidnapped Europeans, all linked to the British embassy  in Addis Ababa.
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Embassy hostages kidnapped in Ethiopia released An abandoned vehicle belonging to the group of Europeans who were kidnapped in Ethiopia.Comment
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British investigators looking into the disappearance of a group of Britons affiliated with their country's embassy examined two abandoned, bullet-riddled embassy cars in a remote Ethiopian village Monday.Comment
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A six-strong team of senior Foreign Office officials were sent to Ethiopia on Saturday to step up diplomatic efforts to free foreigners feared kidnapped in a remote area of the Horn of Africa country.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - Five Europeans and eight locals kidnapped by gunmen in remote north Ethiopia are in good condition despite more than a week's captivity, the government and a local community leader said on Friday.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia -- At least a dozen European tourists were kidnapped in remote northeastern Ethiopia, a barren expanse of volcanoes and ancient salt mines where bandits and rebels operate, diplomats and local businessmen said yesterday.
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Five European tourists who went missing last week in northeastern Ethiopia are being held by kidnappers in a remote tribal region, Ethiopia's foreign minister said Friday.
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Five Europeans kidnapped in Ethiopia almost two weeks ago have been released but the whereabouts of eight locals seized with them remain unclear, British and Ethiopian officials said on Tuesday.
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Fifteen European tourists were kidnapped in the remote desert of northern Ethiopia, one of the hottest and most inhospitable areas in the world, a diplomat and people in the area said. The French Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday that Western tourists have been kidnapped in Ethiopia, but declined to say how many or indicate their nationalities.
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An Ethiopian administrator accused Eritrean forces of kidnapping a group of five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians in a remote part of Ethiopia, and taking them to a military camp near the Eritrean border.Comment
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Dec 23, 2004 -- On this Christmas Eve like every other, there will not be peace on all the Earth. That&#39;s especially true in a forgotten corner of East Africa, where thousands of children have been abducted