Government-linked Britons missing in Ethiopia
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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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Britain voiced relief Tuesday after the release of five members of a British embassy group held for nearly two weeks by a rebel group in a remote part of Ethiopia.
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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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The five Europeans who were freed after being kidnapped in Ethiopia are due to fly back to the UK.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia, March 4 -- Eritrea on Sunday dismissed allegations that its forces had crossed into neighboring Ethiopia and kidnapped five Britons affiliated with their country's embassy and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote border region.
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The Foreign Office confirmed Saturday that a team of British officials had arrived in Addis Ababa as a manhunt was stepped up for those behind the kidnapping of a group of Westerners.
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Fifteen foreigners including 10 French nationals have gone missing in a remote region of north-east Ethiopia which has seen kidnappings of tourists in the past, expatriate sources said on Friday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived back in Britain after a three-day trip to Africa, Downing Street has said. Mr Blair attended the second meeting of his Commission for Africa in Ethiopia where he vowed
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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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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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A team of British officials arrived in Ethiopia on Saturday to help in the hunt for at least five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians feared kidnapped in the remote northeast of the country.
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Police in Britain are to investigate the fate of UK citizens who have been missing since the tsunami in Asia.
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UK officials attempt to go to the site where five Britons were kidnapped in Ethiopia, as others meet Ethiopia's PM.
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ADDIS ABABA - Eritrea dismissed as "baseless fabrication" accusations by an Ethiopian official that Eritrean forces had kidnapped a group of British tourists in a remote ...Comment
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair  left Ethiopia for home late on Thursday, a day ahead of  schedule, airport sources in Addis Ababa said.
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Eritrea denies the claim made by a senior Ethiopian official that its soldiers kidnapped five Europeans connected to the British embassy.Comment
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The Foreign Office said Friday it was urgently checking reports of a kidnapping in Ethiopia, after eleven French nationals and three Britons were reported missing.