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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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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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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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said on Thursday a security buffer between the Red Sea state and arch-foe Ethiopia was "meaningless" and blamed the United States for a five-year border stalemate.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame rejected allegations by a French judge that he orchestrated the 1994 attack that unleashed Rwanda's genocide, saying the accusation was politically motivated, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.
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Somali Islamists on Monday dismissed as fake two letters purportedly signed by their most influential leader and which led to a U.S. warning of possible suicide attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Saturday that the threat of war with neighboring Eritrea over their disputed border was fading.
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Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir dismissed critics of his government's efforts to address the Darfur crisis, saying Friday that improvements in the strife-torn region have disappointed his country's enemies.
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Italy's La Repubblica newspaper on Wednesday rejected accusations by the kidnappers of its correspondent in Afghanistan that the journalist was a spy.
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Somalia's top Islamist leader said on Friday his fighters did not plan to attack the Horn of Africa nation's interim government but only its "invading" Ethiopian allies.
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Italy's government dismissed reports Wednesday that it paid $1 million to free two Italian aid workers who were kidnapped in Iraq and held for three weeks before being released Tuesday.
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Taiwan&#39;s foreign minister on Sunday denied allegations that the island sent money to former Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez, who is being investigated for his role in a bribery scandal.
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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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Nigeria's president denies claims by his deputy that he awarded contracts to his favourite aides and ministers.
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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.Comment
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(AGI) Ãâ Rome, Italy, Aug 24 Ãâ The president of the Left Democrat MPs, Luciano Violante, speaking of the abduction of the Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni in Iraq said that it was necessary not to surrender to the blackmail of terrorists.
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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.