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...looks out the window at the small group of friends and relatives who have come to wish him luck. "I registered that moment like a photograph," he recalls. Abdi Salan spends the first five days of his journey heading northwest by bus to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. A Somali friend of the family offers him a place to stay, and he begins asking around about how to make his next move. He knows Sudan...
...Omar Suleiman into the limelight by giving him the task of negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. Although Suleiman keeps a low profile, he has the distinct advantage of having earned the President's gratitude: in 1995 he insisted that Mubarak ride in an armored car while in Addis Ababa--where his motorcade was attacked by Egyptian terrorists...
DIED. SIR WILFRED THESIGER, 93, indefatigable explorer and travel writer; in London. Born in Addis Ababa, the son of a British diplomat, he established his reputation at age 23 when he discovered the source of East Africa's Awash River, something several men before him perished trying to do. He later became the first Westerner to twice cross Saudi Arabia's vast, uncharted Empty Quarter. The punishing expeditions were chronicled in his best-selling book Arabian Sands. Subsequent years spent living in southern Iraq led to his second acclaimed book, Marsh Arabs. Thesiger continued to risk his life exploring...
...Prince Naif. Another likely target is the Saudi American Bank (SAMBA), the kingdom's second largest financial institution, which is partly owned and managed by Citibank. The list will also include prominent Saudi charities, financial institutions and businessmen, notably Mohammed al-Amoudi, the multimillionaire owner of a lavish Addis Ababa hotel where Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and rock star Bono stayed this year while on their African tour. Al-Amoudi has repeatedly denied any links to terrorism...
...good governance, rule of law, democracy and sound economic management. Yet as Gaddafi told the Durban delegates: "We have democracy of our own style and patterns. We accept assistance, but we refuse conditions." Gaddafi would still like the African Union to be based in Libya instead of Addis Ababa, the OAU's Ethiopian headquarters, and he is reported to be building a palatial meeting hall in Tripoli for the pan-African parliament that is envisaged for the Union. No decision has been made yet on where to locate the planned parliament, an African Court of Justice and an African Central...