Eritrean president dismisses Ethiopian kidnap allegations
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Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki has dismissed Ethiopian allegations that Eritrea abducted five European tourists and their guides last week in the Ethiopian desert as &quot;totally baseless&quot;.
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Sudan&#39;s foreign minister on Thursday dismissed claims by the United Nations that his country&#39;s Darfur region is experiencing the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis, saying instead
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Ethiopia notifies Eritrea that it considers it to be in breach of a peace accord which halted a two-year war.
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Reports that Britons kidnapped in  Ethiopia have been found are investigated by the Foreign Office.
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Iraq's interim president expressed doubts Friday over a claim of responsibility by a previously unknown militant group for the kidnapping of two Italian aid workers in Baghdad, the Italian government said.
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Italy's La Repubblica newspaper has rejected accusations by the kidnappers of its correspondent in Afghanistan that the journalist was a spy.
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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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Khartoum has dismissed charges that a US diplomat had been denied an entry visa and said the envoy would be welcome in Sudan as long as the mission was &quot;constructive,&quot; the foreign ministry said.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia, March 3 -- 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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DR Congo rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has dismisses a claim that over 1,000 of his men had defected.
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Eritrean minister denies report that 20 people were killed in an overcrowded prison after a crack down on draft dodgers.
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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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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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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - Ethiopia said on Saturday it was in contact with an armed group that kidnapped five European and eight locals in a remote northern region -- but ruled out a military operation to rescue them.
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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 neighbouring Eritrea.Comment
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame rejects accusations of involvement in the 1994 killing which sparked genocide.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Tuesday dismissed claims that rebels from the restive Ogaden region had defeated the military and caused one of his top aides to flee.