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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Investigators recovered one of the Land Rovers driven by the group A group of British embassy workers kidnapped in northern Ethiopia 12 days ago have been released, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has said.Comment
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The Foreign Office on Wednesday said the abduction of a five-member embassy group in Ethiopia last week was likely linked to local rebel groups in the remote northeast Afar region.
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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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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - A search party scouring a remote northeastern region of Ethiopia looking for five kidnapped Europeans on Monday found two shrapnel-damaged vehicles that had belonged to the group.
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Ethiopian police said on Saturday they had identified the kidnappers of the British embassy tour group abducted in the remote Ethiopian desert on March 1.
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Four Britons and a Frenchwoman who disappeared in the remote Ethiopian desert more than a week ago are &quot;safe&quot; but still held by their kidnappers, Ethiopia's foreign minister said Friday.
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Five Europeans and eight locals  kidnapped in remote north Ethiopia are "unharmed and safe" in  the hands of Afar separatist rebels holding them over the  border in Eritrea, an Afar leader said on Friday.
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Reports that Britons kidnapped in  Ethiopia have been found are investigated by the Foreign Office.
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The government has been in contact with the kidnappers of a European tour group that disappeared in one of Ethiopia's most remote, inhospitable regions, Ethiopia's foreign minister said Saturday.
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Wander around Axum, a sleepy town in northern Ethiopia, and it is impossible to ignore the giant pit that has been dug right in the centre of town.
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Eritrea dismissed as "baseless  fabrication" accusations by an Ethiopian official that Eritrean  forces had kidnapped a group of British tourists in a remote  area of Ethiopia.
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Britain sent a crisis team to Ethiopia on Saturday in an effort to obtain the release of five British embassy workers or their relatives who were kidnapped along with a group of French while on a trip to remote northeastern Ethiopia.
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Five Ethiopians out of 13 believed kidnapped alongside a party of five Britons in one of Ethiopia's most hostile regions have been found, while a manhunt for the rest of the team has been intensified.
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Five Britons with diplomatic connections were missing feared kidnapped in Ethiopia last night amid security concerns.Comment
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Five out of 13 Ethiopians believed to have been kidnapped with five Britons in the remote Afar region have been found by the security forces, the state news agency said.
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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, diplomats said on Friday.