Ethiopian soldiers 'defect' to Eritrea
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Eight Ethiopian soldiers have defected to Eritrea over the issue of Somalia, Eritrea's government says.
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Somalia's Islamist movement told arch-foe Ethiopia on Tuesday to withdraw its troops from the Horn of Africa nation within a week or face war.
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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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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- War or no war with Somalia, Mulunesh Abebayhu wants out. Out of her teaching job, where Ethiopian security forces constantly harass her because of her political views. Out of this city, where hundreds of protesters were killed by police bullets after disputed elections last...
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ADDIS ABABA : Ethiopia accepts the outline of its frontiers with Eritrea as set by a joint commission after their 1998-2000 border war, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said.
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Somalia's government has sent hundreds of troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to recapture a strategic southern town seized by the country's powerful Islamic movement, military officials and witnesses said Sunday, as dozens of families began fleeing the area.
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UN peacekeepers begin a "temporary" pull-out from Eritrea after it cuts their fuel supplies, the UN confirms.
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A British embassy group of five people captured almost two weeks ago in northeast Ethiopia and released Tuesday in Eritrea, left Asmara on Wednesday afternoon, a diplomatic source said.
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GENEINA, Sudan  - A group of 78 Eritreans being  deported home from Libya hijacked their plane Friday and  diverted it to Khartoum in Sudan, where they surrendered, U.N.  and Sudanese officials said.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or face a "major attack".
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The Security Council voted Tuesday to reduce the peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea from 2,300 troops to 1,700, expressing disappointment in the stalled process to draw the border between the feuding Horn of Africa neighbors.
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Comments SAS troopers are reportedly on the trail of kidnappers who snatched five British diplomatic workers in Ethiopia.Comment
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"We must now take the consequences of the fact that the Ethiopian authorities are upholding their decision and we are therefore making preparations to withdraw six diplomats from our embassy in Addis Ababa (by Sept. 15)"  Ethiopia has asked Norway to withdraw six diplomats from Addis Ababa because of "dissatisfaction" with Norway's conduct in the Horn of Africa, the Norwegian foreign ministry said on Monday. via AlertNet
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Aug 28, 2004 (PANA) -- A group of 84 Eritrean deportees who on Friday forced a Libyan plane to land in Khartoum instead of Asmara, their country&#39;s capital, has requested for political asylum in Sudan.
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Strained relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia could prevent the Axum obelisk's return to Ethiopia from Italy.
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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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KISMAYU, Somalia  - Ethiopian troops withdrew from the southern city of Kismayu, leaving it in the hands of Somalia's interim government until African Union (AU) peacekeepers arrive, officials said on Friday.