Eritrea Denies Seizing Tour Group in Ethiopia
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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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Southern Sudanese rebel chief John  Garang denied on Tuesday accusations by the Sudanese government  that he backed the uprising in Darfur in the west.
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Two groups of tourists, including at least seven French nationals and five Britons, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Eritrea has arrested some United  Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and  Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people  out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi challenged the kidnappers of five Europeans and eight locals to give them up on Monday, saying the hostages were not the original target of the raid in which they were seized.
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An Ethiopian administrator accused Eritrean forces on Saturday of kidnapping a group of five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians in a remote part of Ethiopia, and taking them to a military camp in neighboring Eritrea.
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A manhunt was on in Ethiopia Saturday after an unidentified group kidnapped five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians in the country's northeast, after conflicting reports that up to 20 foreigners had been abducted.
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Ethiopian police said on Saturday they had identified the kidnappers of the British embassy tour group abducted in the remote Ethiopian desert on March 1.
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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, a diplomat and people in the area said. The French Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday that Western tourists have been kidnapped in Ethiopia, but declined to say how many or indicate their nationalities.
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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 community leader said on Friday.
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Eritrea dismissed as "baseless  fabrication" on Sunday accusations by an Ethiopian official  that Eritrean forces kidnapped a group of tourists, including  Britons and Ethiopians, in a remote part of Ethiopia.
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Sudan on Wednesday denied U.N. accusations that Sudanese government forces attacked a U.N.-African Union supply convoy in Sudan's Darfur region this week, pointing the finger at Chadian-backed rebels instead.
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Ethiopia's Marxist ex-ruler will not be extradited to face sentence for genocide, Zimbabwe says.
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A human rights organisation in Ethiopia said Wednesday that the government has been holding three of its members without charge for more than two weeks in the west of the country.
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Eritrea has arrested some United   Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and   Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people   out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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Several Britons are among a group of tourists missing after kidnap reports in Ethiopia, the UK government says.
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Key states who joined the US-led invasion of Iraq have rejected claims by the United Nations Secretary-General that the war was illegal.