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Spotlight | Ethiopia
The Temptation of War

The mounting problems within their country are strengthening some Ethiopian leaders' temptation to race toward a new border conflict with Eritrea. The Ethiopian army is preparing for this possibility, but it is not yet ready to engage itself into such [...]

Published on 31.01.2004 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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East Africa
ALBRIGHT'S AGENDA

US secretary of state Madeleine Albright is expected to leave Washington on October 17 for a ten-day swing through Africa, [...]

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Sudan
ETHIOPIAN INITIATIVE

Irritated by the rapprochement between Cairo and Khartoum and by recent Egyptian mediation on the Somali problem, the Ethiopian government [...]

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Sudan
OAU WARNS KHARTOUM

The meeting of foreign ministers of member-countries of the central organism of the Organization of African Unity's committee for conflict [...]

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Ethiopia
CAIRO CACOPHONY

The investigation into the attempted assassination of Egyptian head of state Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa on June 26 has [...]

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Spotlight | East Africa
ROUND-UP OF FRENCH INTERVENTION

The annual jamboree of French ambassadors and trade counsellors serving in East Africa and the Horn of Africa with representatives of French companies trading there, inaugurated in Nairobi by Kenyan finance minister Musalia Mudavadi, revealed an increase in competition on [.

Subscribers only 01.04.1995

Horn of Africa
SPECIAL IGADD SUMMIT

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from diplomatic sources in Nairobi, the Kenyan government, spurred on by [...]

Subscribers only 25.03.1995

Eritrea
ASMARA VERSUS JIHAD

Eritrea's foreign minister Petros Solomon used his recent diplomatic tour of Europe (France, Germany, The Netherlands) to confirm that an [...]

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Spotlight | Eritrea
RUPTURE WITH KHARTOUM

Eritrea's decision on December 5 to break diplomatic relations with its neighbour Sudan is a clear expression of Asmara's profound fears of what its leaders privately refer to as "Sudan's Islamic and imperialistic ambitions". Asmara is not alone in perceiving [.

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Eritrea, Ethiopia

The situation of the conflicting relations between Sudan and Uganda [...]

Subscribers only 12.11.1994

Spotlight | Horn of Africa
THE STATESIDE VIEW

The Horn of Africa is, with southern Africa, one of the regions on the African continent where the United States is still trying to maintain follow-through in its interventions. A tough order, as Washington no longer has a coherent, long-term [.

Subscribers only 07.05.1994

Eritrea
PRESIDENT AFEWORKI TO VISIT PARIS

French and Eritrean officials are working out details for an official visit by the head of state Isaias Afwerki, planned [...]

Subscribers only 09.04.1994

Ethiopia
WARNING TO KHARTOUM

Following the virulent denunciation by the Eritrean head of state, Isaias Afwerki, of the help supplied by Sudan's National Islamic [...]

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Spotlight | Kenya
RELIGIOUS FEARS

Since the unrest in Mombasa started a few weeks ago among the followers of the Islamic Party of Kenya (IPK) calling for their party to be legally recognised, the authorities and the Christian population in the country have begun to [.

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Spotlight | Horn of Africa
A HUMANITARIAN YALTA ?

Albeit with its intentions veiled, the recent conference on humanitarian questions, held this month in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, was the first step in a kind of episodic Yalta agreement, aimed at restructuring the whole region, under the watchful [.

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WARNING TO KHARTOUM

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Sudan OAU WARNS KHARTOUM

Ethiopia CAIRO CACOPHONY

Spotlight | East Africa ROUND-UP OF FRENCH INTERVENTION

Horn of Africa SPECIAL IGADD SUMMIT

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Spotlight | Eritrea RUPTURE WITH KHARTOUM

Eritrea, Ethiopia

Spotlight | Horn of Africa THE STATESIDE VIEW

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Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

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Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Spotlight | Ethiopia
The Temptation of War

East Africa
ALBRIGHT'S AGENDA

Sudan
ETHIOPIAN INITIATIVE

Sudan
OAU WARNS KHARTOUM

Ethiopia
CAIRO CACOPHONY

Spotlight | East Africa
ROUND-UP OF FRENCH INTERVENTION

Horn of Africa
SPECIAL IGADD SUMMIT

Eritrea
ASMARA VERSUS JIHAD

Spotlight | Eritrea
RUPTURE WITH KHARTOUM

Spotlight | Horn of Africa
THE STATESIDE VIEW

Eritrea
PRESIDENT AFEWORKI TO VISIT PARIS

Ethiopia
WARNING TO KHARTOUM

Spotlight | Kenya
RELIGIOUS FEARS

Spotlight | Horn of Africa
A HUMANITARIAN YALTA ?