Ethiopia's freed leader defiant
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Ethiopia's opposition leader hits out at the government hours after being pardoned and freed from prison jail.
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The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia vowed Tuesday to resist the expansion of Islamic militants as more fighting was reported in the chaotic East African nation.
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Ethiopia on Friday freed 38 opposition members jailed this week for inciting violence, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said, in a case critics say was politically motivated.
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Militant Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, in hiding since the war at the end of 2006 that ousted his movement from southern Somalia, appeared on Thursday at a conference in Eritrea.
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Ethiopia has held direct talks with Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts, despite appearing on the verge of war.
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Market reforms in Africa at the urging of western institutions have not succeeded and a &quot;strong developmental state&quot; is the best way forward for Ethiopia, the country's prime minister said in an interview published in the Financial Times.
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The rebel East Timor military leader who escaped from jail earlier this week appeared on television and criticized the country's government.
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Jailed Nigerian separatist leader Muhajid Dokubo Asari, who is facing a treason charge has ruled out negotiating his release with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Ethiopia rejects charges it bombed a Mogadishu market on Thursday, as clashes continue.
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Thirty Ethiopian opposition leaders sentenced to life in prison over election protests are pardoned.
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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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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi visits Somalia for the first since his troops helped oust Islamists.
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NAIROBI, June 11 -- An Ethiopian court found 38 prisoners guilty Monday of charges ranging from "outrage against the constitution" to aggravated high treason in a trial the prisoners called a sham, and which international human rights groups have roundly condemned.
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Somalia's senior Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said on Friday his movement did not plan to attack the Horn of Africa's interim government but only "invading" Ethiopian troops.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 12 -- An Ethiopian dictator known as "the butcher of Addis Ababa" was convicted of genocide Tuesday in a rare case of an African strongman being held to account by his own country.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  -- An Ethiopian dictator known as "the butcher of Addis Ababa" was convicted Tuesday of genocide in a rare case of an African strongman being held to account by his own country.
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BUUR HAKABA, Somalia  - Ethiopia on Wednesday brushed off an Islamist ultimatum to leave Somalia in a week, as troops dug in on a slim frontline separating the powerful religious movement and the Ethiopian-backed government.