ETHIOPIA: Concerns about opposition activists' trials, 22/Dec/05
ADDIS ABABA, 22 December (IRIN) - Rights groups have expressed concern over the trial of 131 Ethiopian politicians, journalists and civil society members for crimes ranging from treason to genocide, and called for the trials to be monitored by an independent body. ... Full Report... Email Report
SOMALIA: Two million facing food crisis in the south, 22/Dec/05
NAIROBI, 22 December (IRIN) - An estimated two million people in southern Somalia are facing an imminent humanitarian emergency and acute livelihood crisis over the next six months, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned ... Full Report... Email Report
SOMALIA: First police academy opens in the northeast, 21/Dec/05
ARMO, 21 December (IRIN) - Hamdi Hershi Mohamed, a 17-year-old female police cadet, was among the 150 recruits marching on Tuesday around the compound of the newly opened police academy at Armo, northeastern Somalia.... Full Report... Email Report
ETHIOPIA: Birds test negative for avian flu, 20/Dec/05
ADDIS ABABA, 20 December (IRIN) - Birds that were suspected of having contracted avian flu in Ethiopia have tested negative for the virus, an agriculture official said on Tuesday. ... Full Report... Email Report
ETHIOPIA: Charges filed against opposition activists, 19/Dec/05
ADDIS ABABA, 19 December (IRIN) - Ethiopian prosecutors have charged 131 politicians, journalists and civil society members, who were detained in a crackdown on opposition groups in early November, with crimes ranging from genocide to treason. ... Full Report... Email Report
HORN OF AFRICA: UNMEE monitoring tense border despite setbacks, 16/Dec/05
ADDIS ABABA/ASMARA, 16 December (IRIN) - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) is continuing to monitor the tense border between the two countries despite restrictions on operations and the expulsion of some of its staff, a UN official said. ... Full Report... Email Report
SOMALIA: UN launches $174 m humanitarian appeal for 2006, 15/Dec/05
NAIROBI, 15 December (IRIN) - Civil unrest, a recent wave of assassinations and piracy in Somalia are hampering humanitarian access to over one million vulnerable people in the war-ravaged nation, aid officials said on Wednesday.... Full Report... Email Report
ETHIOPIA: Food security improving - FEWS Net, 15/Dec/05
ADDIS ABABA, 15 December (IRIN) - Food security in Ethiopia is improving thanks to a good harvest, rising coffee prices in the world market and better aid distribution, a famine early warning network said on Thursday. ... Full Report... Email Report
SOMALIA: Arms embargo must not be lifted, ICG urges, 14/Dec/05
NAIROBI, 14 December (IRIN) - The International Crisis Group has warned that a recent request by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to lift a United Nations arms embargo on Somalia is a "recipe for instability" in the Eastern Africa Nation. ... Full Report... Email Report
ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Visiting UN officials delay departure from Asmara, 14/Dec/05
ADDIS ABABA, 14 December (IRIN) - A United Nations team that is visiting Ethiopia and Eritrea to review a tense standoff between the two neighbours extended its stay in the Eritrean capital of Asmara on Wednesday after failing for a day to meet authorities there.... Full Report... Email Report
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