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African Union to open Chinese-funded HQ in Ethiopia

The new AU headquarters is seen as a symbol of China's new role in Africa

28 January, 2012

The African Union is due to inaugurate its newly built headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.


Chinese President to Inaugurate New African Union Headquarters

Chinese President Hu Jintao

27 January, 2012

Chinese President Hu Jintao is expected to visit Addis Ababa this month to inaugurate a new African Union headquarters financed by China and built largely with Chinese labor.


Ethiopia slaps prison terms on three journalists

26 January, 2012

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia sentenced two Ethiopian journalists to 14 years in jail and an exiled blogger to life imprisonment on Thursday on charges of conspiring with rebel groups against the government, the second case in a month targeting the media.

Truck bomb explodes at Ethiopian base in Somalia

Ethiopian Soldiers

24 January, 2012

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A truck bomb targeted an Ethiopian military base inside Somalia on Tuesday, and Islamist militants claimed responsibility for the attack.


Ethiopia rebels say holding two Germans after attack

Camels carrying salt in the Ethiopia's Afar region

23 January, 2012

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian rebel group said at the weeked it had kidnapped two German tourists and two Ethiopians, adding that they were safe, in good health and could be released unharmed.

Ethiopia hunts tourist killers after volcano attack

Camels carrying salt in the Ethiopia's Afar region

19 January, 2012

Ethiopian security forces on Thursday searched for gunmen who killed five Europeans and kidnapped two on the slopes of the famed Erta Ale volcano, an area often described as "hell on earth".

Tourists from 5 nations victims in Ethiopia attack

unidentified member of the tourist group that was attacked, is assisted as she arrives back at the airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.

18 January, 2012

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Gunmen in Ethiopia's arid north attacked a group of European tourists traveling in one of the world's lowest and hottest regions, killing five, wounding two and kidnapping two, an Ethiopian official said Wednesday.

Five Europeans killed in Ethiopia attack

18 January, 2012

Ethiopia said on Wednesday that five tourists killed in an attack blamed on terrorists in the northeast were all European, and that two other foreigners in the group had been kidnapped.

Ethiopia says Eritrea-trained gunmen killed tourists

17 January, 2012

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed five foreign tourists in Ethiopia's remote northern Afar region, after crossing into the Horn of Africa country from neighboring Eritrea which trained and armed the attackers, an Ethiopian official said on Tuesday.

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