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Ethiopia’s Meles set for easy re-election
Voters go to the polls in Ethiopia on Sunday with little doubt that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will stay in power.
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Awkward summit as Africa ponders role of Gadaffi
After an awkward year with Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi as chairperson, many at the AU fear he will seek re-election.
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A museum to save an Ethiopian tribe’s soul
Women jump up in their fluffy orange cotton skirts, waggling their shoulders at men who are swift to join the dance.
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African leaders adopt landmark refugee convention
African leaders on Friday ratified a convention on the protection of the continent’s internally displaced people, refugees and returnees.
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Somali general says insurgents’ days are numbered
African Union peacekeepers have an acronym for the guerrilla war in Somalia — VUCA — meaning volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous.
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UN Somalia envoy accuses Islamist leader of coup attempt
The UN envoy for Somalia blamed Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys on Wednesday for recent fighting in Mogadishu.
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African Union summit overshadowed by fresh crises
The AU’s annual summit was to kick off Sunday with another year of crises likely to upstage an official agenda focused on infrastructure.
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‘We want to remain Ethiopian’
The mountainous region in north-eastern Ethiopia was ravaged by the border conflict that left about 80 000 dead between 1998 and 2000.
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Disputed Ethiopia-Eritrea border town still stirs war fears
Every morning at dawn, Ethiopian soldiers poke long poles into the soil on the dirt track linking Badme with civilization, looking for landmines.
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Ousted Comoran renegade leader still on the run
Comoran and African forces on Wednesday battled die-hard supporters of Anjouan’s fugitive strongman as the federal authorities pledged a transition government in the Indian Ocean isle by the end of the week. Mohamed Bacar (45) was still on the run on the second day of the military operation.