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...does turn its war on terrorism to Somalia, the armed forces of neighboring Ethiopia are slated to be the Northern Alliance-type allied ground force. But the Addis Ababa Tribune laments the fact that Africa is on U.S. radar screens only because of the potential for al-Qaeda to seek refuge there. "America is pursuing its own interests first and last?," the paper editorializes. "For the foreseeable future the U.S.'s engagement with third world countries will be security-driven. Resources will flow to enhance security relationships at the expense of development assistance. Security alliances will define partnership. We fear...
FOILED JUNE 26, 1995 ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA An assassination attempt on the motorcade of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was unsuccessful...
...read that] in Aedis Ababa, the capitol of Ethiopia, 2000 university students had been arrested for protesting for free speech. Thirty-one were killed in the protest,” Tiruneh said...
...region of Ethiopia called the Middle Awash, some 140 miles northeast of the capital of Addis Ababa, is a hot, harsh and inhospitable place--a rocky desert punctuated by tree-lined rivers, the occasional lake and patches of lava that are slowly being buried by sediments flushed out of the hills by the torrential rains that come along twice a year...
...ETHIOPIA Student Riots Political protests by students at Addis Ababa University spiraled out of control into full-scale riots, claiming dozens of lives and turning the capital into a city under siege. Hospital officials said up to 40 people died and more than 250 were injured in the clashes between police and crowds protesting police brutality. The government closed the university indefinitely...