US sends team to restive Ethiopian region
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The United States on Thursday announced it had sent a team to assess humanitarian needs in Ethiopia's Ogaden region, where government troops have been battling insurgents since June last year.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is traveling to Ethiopia this week, for the British-sponsored Commission for Africa meeting to discuss the continent&#39;s pressing needs.
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The Bush administration has begun quietly urging Arab countries to help overcome Sudan's resistance to deploying 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers and police to the troubled Darfur region, the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan said Wednesday
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United States stepped  up its diplomatic and relief effort in tsunami countries,  sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the hardest-hit  region and promising more helicopters and field hospitals would  follow.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - A search party scoured a remote northeastern region of Ethiopia on Monday looking for a group of kidnapped Europeans, all linked to the British embassy in Addis Ababa.
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The United States will commit 116 million dollars to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in an effort to help relieve the humanitarian crisis gripping the war-torn Darfur region, the State Department said.
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A United Nations fact-finding mission on Thursday left for Ethiopia&#39;s eastern Ogaden region where the government is battling insurgents amid reports of human rights abuses, an official said.
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The United States on Thursday condemned as "irresponsible" a threat by Somalia's Islamist movement to attack Ethiopian troops backing the Horn of Africa nation's interim government unless they leave within days.
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The US has provided airlifts and pledged $300 million to support African troops in west Sudan. By Abraham McLaughlin - staff writer and Duncan Woodside - contributor.
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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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Satellites and telephone wires bring the battle for the White House to an Internet cafe 7,200 miles away in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, where Girma Hagos goes for his daily dose of U.S. election news.
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An American spearheads effort to help Iraq's junior team recover from thefts of bikes and equipment.
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The United States dispatched disaster teams Monday and prepared an initial &#36;15 million aid package to the Asian countries hit by a massive earthquake and tsunamis. U.S. officials were seeking to contact hundreds of Americans who remain unaccounted for in the region.
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The Ethiopian government, a top U.S. ally, is forcing teachers, doctors and aid workers to fight, according to Western officials, refugees and defectors.
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The United States will play a leading role in the international relief operation after the Asian tsunami disaster, the White House vowed Monday.
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A project supported by the United States is working to protect Afghanistanâs wildlife and develop its first official system of protected lands.
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A small number of U.S. troops have been working with the African Union military observer mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the State Department said Wednesday, highlighting the U.S. role in peace efforts.