Ethiopia building up army, PM says
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Ethiopia's prime minister said Thursday he is building up the army's capabilities because he fears an imminent attack by Eritrea, which he also accused of arming rebel groups inside his country.
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Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to become Japan's new prime minister, called Friday for his country to build a stronger military as a deterrent and to push ahead with economic reforms as candidates launched their campaigns to lead the governing party.
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Prime Minister Maliki says he will focus on fighting insurgents, disarming party militias.
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Ethiopia's Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels said further fighting with security forces in the nation's remote east had brought the number of government soldiers killed to more than 250.
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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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Australian prime minister John Howard has proposed creating anti-terrorist police squads as he continues his campaign for re-election next month.
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Ethiopia on Thursday welcomed the recent deployment of Burundian peacekeepers to Somalia and asked for more help from the African Union in its struggle with Islamist insurgents there.
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Somalia's government has formed an anti-terror unit trained by Ethiopian troops to quell growing unrest in the capital and a senior defense official said it went into operation on Monday.
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The Washington Post's Stephanie McCrummen sat down this week with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to discuss rising tensions with Somalia's Islamic Courts, and the state of democracy inside the country.
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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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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi visits Somalia for the first since his troops helped oust Islamists.
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Ethiopia has charged 55 opposition members with trying to launch a rebellion, a government prosecutor told AFP on Wednesday.
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Thousands of Islamic militants have surrounded the only town Somalia's internationally recognized government controls, the prime minister said Tuesday as a top Islamic official promised to attack within a week unless troops from neighboring Ethiopia leave.
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Tony Blair, the British prime minister, is in Ethiopia to chair a summit he hopes will turn Africa&#39;s problems into a global priority.
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As Islamists take over Somalia, its Western-backed neighbor Ethiopia prepares for war.
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Denmark is considering boosting its contingent in Afghanistan by 200 troops to 600, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday.Comment
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Freshly recovered from a heart operation, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was scheduled to fly to Ethiopia on Tuesday on a personal aid mission which he hopes will also provide a restorative boost to his own ...