At Least 12 Europeans Seized in Ethiopia
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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 ...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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The five, who were staff and relatives at Britain's embassy in Addis Ababa, were captured in the remote north-east Afar region, near the border with Eritrea.Comment
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Five Europeans kidnapped in Ethiopia 12  days ago have been released and are in good health, British  foreign minister Margaret Beckett 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
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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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A senior Ethiopian official accused Eritrean forces on Saturday of kidnapping five Britons and 13 Ethiopians and taking them to a military camp in neighboring Eritrea.
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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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HARGEISA, Somalia  - Ethiopian troops arrested six men believed to be members of al Qaeda during a cross-border operation in the breakaway republic of Somaliland, a senior Somaliland official said on Saturday.
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A number of British nationals connected to government agencies are missing in Ethiopia, the Foreign Office said Friday as it urgently checked out reports of Western tourists being kidnapped.
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At least a dozen European tourists were kidnapped in remote northeastern Ethiopia, one of the hottest and most inhospitable areas in the world
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, two Britons and an Italian, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Eritrea denied on Friday that a group of five Europeans kidnapped in neighboring Ethiopia had been taken to its country by Afar separatist rebels.
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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 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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Five Europeans and eight Ethiopians kidnapped in remote northern Ethiopia are "unharmed and safe" in the hands of Afar separatist rebels holding them across the border in Eritrea, an Afar leader said on Friday.
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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