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ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: EU urges restraint over unresolved border dispute AlertNet Mon, 14 Feb 2005 6:15 AM PST
ADDIS ABABA, 14 February (IRIN) - The European Union (EU) expressed concern on Monday over "the recent military build-up" by Ethiopia and Eritrea and urged both sides not to ignite another war in the Horn of Africa.

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EU concerned at build-up on Ethiopia-Eritrea border..Mon February 14, 2005 4:11 PM GMT+02:00, Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
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Eritrea: The land time forgot
Mail & Guardian Online (subscription) - 14 February 2005 12:34 , Johannesburg,South Africa
The only problem is her farmland is in a buffer zone that separates Eritrea and Ethiopia, and she has to live in a homeless camp. ...

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Villa Face Adulis in Asmara
AllAfrica.com, Africa -The Monitor (Kampala) February 12, 2005 Posted to the web February 11, 2005

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Eritrean Foreign Minister leaves Sana'a SANA'A Feb 10 (Saba) -

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Economic crisis continues in Eritrea
afrol News - Oslo,Norway
afrol News, 10 February - A new report on the economic performance of Eritrea indicates that the country is far from stepping out of its economic crisis. ...

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Eritrea Disposes 16,000 Kg Unserviceable Munitions
AllAfrica.com - Africa
UN officials said Thursday that the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Mine Action and Coordination (MACC) Explosive Ordnance Team is ...

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Eritrea will not send peacekeepers to Somalia Friday February 11th, 2005 07:15. MOGADISHU, Feb 10, 2005 (Radio Shabeelle) --

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EMAIL FROM ASMARA
Medhani-Alem Orthodox Tewahdo church: stops spritual service Dr. Tekleab critically ill in prison (asmarino)

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Eritrea: Ruling party official meets Sudanese oppos

ition leader BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Feb 10, 2005

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Eritrea to demand return of ancient artifacts from Ethiopia, Italy
AFP via Yahoo! News Thu, 10 Feb 2005 7:58 AM PST
Eritrea is to demand the return from Ethiopia of hundreds of archeological artifacts taken from ancient sites in the 1960s, an official said, threatening a new row between the feuding Horn of Africa neighbors.

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TfP conducts in-mission training for UN in Eritrea

The Training for Peace Programme (http://www.trainingforpeace.org) at ACCORD will be in Eritrea from 16 to 25 March to conduct an in-mission version of its Civilian Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Course for Political Affairs Officers of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). A 2nd course for UNMEE is scheduled for 14 to 22 March in Addis Ababa

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IMF says Eritrea needs to act soon on economic woes By Laura MacInnis WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Eritrea cannot wait for tensions along its border with Ethiopia to abate before tackling its deep-set economic problems, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday

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Yemen, Eritrea hold official talks in Sana'a [09/February/2005] SANA'A, Feb. 9 (Saba)- Yemen and Eritrea held here on Wednesday official talks on the fields of the bilateral relations and the current developmentsin the Middle East and the African Horn, the talks were co-chaired by Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Q...
F Eritrean foreign minister arrives in Sana'a [09/February/2005] SANA'A, Feb 9 (Saba)

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Special Defense Department Briefing
Defenselink.mil - 6 hours ago
... There are some tensions between Eritrea and Ethiopia right now as far as the border control and who owns Bodme and some of the other areas up there, and that ...

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Sudanese opposition urges government to normalize ties with Eritrea BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Feb 08, 2005

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Embassy Row
Washington Times, DC - 2-9-05 ... Unlike most of the rest of Africa, Eritrea is doing so well combating infant mortality, HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases that Health Minister ...

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Somali minister accuses Ethiopia of dividing country Tuesday February 8th, 2005 00:16. MOGADISHU, Feb 7, 2005 (Holy Koran Radio)

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Sudanese National Democratic Alliance meets in Eritrea BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom, Feb 07, 2005 .

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President Isaias receives SPLM president Dr. John Garang
Asmara, Feb. 06, 2005 (ERINA) -- President Isaias Afwerki received and held talks in the morning hours today with the President of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), Dr. John Garang.

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Garang is to travel to Eritrea on Sunday. Sun Feb 6, 3:04 PM ET World - AFP ADDIS ABABA (AFP)

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Sudanese opposition leader heads for Eritera for talks with factions in exile BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom, Feb 07, 2005
The leader of Ummah Party-Reform and Renewal wing, Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi, left for Asmara, capital of Eritrea, yesterday...

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US fear of Horn of Africa radicals overblown-expert Monday February 7th, 2005 14:30. ADDIS ABABA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Fears that the Horn of Africa could become an incubator for international Islamic extremism are overblown, partly because plans to sow such militancy have already failed, a regional human rights expert said.

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Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of "provocative acts" Monday February 7th, 2005 00:16. Sudan Tribune

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Arts & Entertainment
Durango Herald Fri, 04 Feb 2005 7:18 AM PST
Two Durango galleries are holding exhibitions concurrently for Betty LaDuke, whose photo of a Kunama mother from Eritrea is shown above. LaDuke's paintings will show at the Durango Arts Center and her photos at the Open Shutter Gallery. .

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UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
UNHCR responds to petition submitted on behalf of Eritrean Refugees.
Dr. T.A. Taddesse

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Sudanese opposition leaders to meet in Eritrea 5 February
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom, Feb 05, 2005
Meetings of the leadership of the [opposition] NDA [National Democratic Alliance] are expected to start today in the...

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Eritrean FM to arrive in Sana'a on Wednesday SANA'A,(Saba)- Eritrean Foreign Minister Ali Said Abdullah will visit Yemen next Wednesday to hold talks with the Yemeni officials over the Yemeni-Eritrean relations. Sabanews.com 03/02/2005 (12:31pm)

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Beja leaders demand investigation into Port Sudan deaths - AFP 02/03/05

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Eritrean president holds talks with Sudanese opposition leader ) --
sudantribune.com Saturday February 5th, 2005 10:31.

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No comprehensive peace in Sudan yet - Eritrean president. .sudantribune.com Saturday February 5th, 2005 00:16.

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Museveni Declares Unilateral 18-Day Ceasefire The Monitor (Kampala) February 4,2005 President Yoweri Museveni has declared another 18-day ceasefire for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels to

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Ethiopia said conscripting youth to launch war against Eritrea BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Feb 04, 2005

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CAMEROON-NIGERIA BORDER COMMISSION TO EXAMINE PROPOSALS, UN SAYS New York, Feb 4 2005 2:00PM.. The Commission has said that the issues before it include the mutually agreed on demarcation of the 1,600-kilometre border, which passes through oil-rich land and sea, and the fate of local populations..

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Other Sudanese conflicts may harm peace mission for country's south, Security Council told
4 February – The top United Nations envoy cautioned the Security Council today that unless solutions are found to the conflicts plaguing Darfur and other regions of Sudan, the UN peace-support mission planned for the country's south will suffer. FULL STORY>>

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Press-release Stockholm
03-02-2005
Mussie Ephrem, the Swedish-Eritrean human rights activist, appealed to this colleagues in the EU and to its parties leaderships in Sweden about the immediate need of international aid to Eritrea to avoid a human disaster.(Swedish Version)

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Nitpicking or Genuine Critiquing: Confusing the Message with the Messenger By Fessahaye Mebrahtu
Feb 11, 2005, 08:22 PST (awate.com)

SOLIDARITY FOR THE WRONG REASONS!
Naz Yemane, Voice of Eritrea, Halifax ,Canada. Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:38 PM

12 Feb 2004 4-6 pm in, Alexandria Virginia
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EDP - Press Release

By EDP Information Dept. - Published February 08, 2005

Eritrean Democratic Party’s leadership will attend the next meeting of the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) that is scheduled to begin on the 3rd Week of February , 2005 in Khartoum, Sudan

meskerem 2-8-05:Opposition Media warned by the Eritrean Islamic Islah Movement for the position the media in question took on the killing of 7 members of the Eritrean Defense Force by the Mujahideen of the organization. The warning came as part of statement of clarification issued in Arabic in response to EDP's condemnation of the killing mentioned above. This is the first time that opposition media is warned in such a manner. Statement in full at gabeel.com as translated into English by EFDM's gabeel.com)

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Why did the EDA postponed (suspend) the meeting?

EDA fails to inform the public appropriately, in the official languages, concerning its meetings and related information as promised creating public confusion.
The public was promised that information concerning the Khartoum meeting was going to be provided through a spokesperson and that all media outlets would be provided with statements and briefs. Due to EDA's failure in providing such official information timely in Arabic and Tigrinya ,the public that is following the meeting with unprecedented interest, has been disadvantaged. The present information about the reason for the postponement of the 2nd meeting can be stated as an example. Why did the EDA postponed (suspend) the meeting? No official statement just different versions/stories by the media. Is the information posted in gabeel.com concerning the formation of a new secretariat made up of only 15 members correct? If so, what organization is not represented, why....

التحالف الديمقراطي يعلق إجتماعاته إلى الثلث الأخير من فبراير الجاري المركز الإرتري للخدمات الإعلامية (ECMS) –6/2/2005م

ECMS 2-6-05: EDA Meeting postponed upon request of a member organization.
ECMS, in Arabic language, has reported today that the EDA meeting in Khartoum has been postponed till the third week of February. The report stated that a member organization had requested the postponement but did not specify which organization requested the postponement. Meskerem has learned from reliable source that the EDP delegation to the first meeting had requested a longer time period till the 2nd meeting. The request was not accepted. The meeting was then advised that the delegates of the meeting, Mr. Mesfun Hagos, the Chairman of EDP and Mohamed Nur Ahmed, member of Secretariat of EDP and head of EDP's dialogue delegation, might not be able to make it to the 4th February meeting. The source did not disclose why EDP requested to prolong the second meeting. It is not clear whether EDP delegation had actually participated in the 2nd meeting putting into question whether the meeting started with all the 16 member organizations present as reported by ECMS.

Eritrean Islamic Islah Movement issues a response statement (below in Arabic) regarding EDP's Condemnation of the Killing of 7 members of the Eritrean Defense Forces by its Mujahideen

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بيان توضيحي حول افتراءات مجموعة الحزب الديمقراطي الإرتري
حركة الإصلاح الإسلامي ألإرتري الأمانة العامة 26/12/1425هـ ــ 5/2/2005م

أمامنا تحديات كبيرة ومعقدة

جبهة التحرير الارترية – المجلس الثوري

مكتب الثقافة والاعلام

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Pictorial Report: EDA meeting in Khartoum: gabeel.com 02-05-05

via Email Saturday, February 05, 2005 5:39 AM: Reaction from the public to Dr. Beyene's statement: ..."It is accepting the fact that, any person who is entrusted to represent the public, is himself a public property."
...."I appreciate Meskerem for raising the issue of absence of prominent figures
from EDA meetings in Khartoum, because the public needs and deserves to know
the reason. I also appreciate Dr. Beyene for taking his time to inform the public about his absence, but simply stating those reasons would have been enough".. full text

Eritreana.com 2-3-05: Dr. Beyene Kidane's, Chairman of ELF-NC, absence from the Khartoum meeting explained. In a statement issued by the chairman in Eritreana.com, he stated," I had to hastily leave for Europe in face of the upcoming meeting in Khartoum because I had pressing private matters to attend that could not wait." As a chairman of one of the main opposition organizations and a public figure, the public does care and want to know the reason for his absence from such a historic meeting. No more no less. It is to be remembered that on 2-1-05, meskerem had reported "EDA final meeting will see the absence of the three Chairmen of three prominent opposition organizations, Dr. Beyene of ELF-NC, Seyoum Harestay of ELF-RC and Mesfin Hagos of EDP".. full report

Press Release
EDP Condemns the Killing of 7 Eritreans - Press Release

Published - February 02, 2005

Mesfin Hagos may not attend the final meeting of the EDA scheduled for 2-4-05. EDA final meeting will see the absence of the three Chairmen of three prominent opposition organizations, Dr. Beyene of ELF-NC, Seyoum Harestay of ELF-RC and Mesfin Hagos of EDP. All other organizations have delegations that include their chairs.

Awate 2-2-05: Awate has posted a meeting announcement in Berkley, California for 2-6-05 with Mr. Mesfin Hagos, the Chairman of EDP. Reached by phone, EDP officials would not confirm or deny whether Mesfin Hagos will participate in the upcoming final meeting of the EDA in Khartoum or whether the meeting has been postponed. However, the distance between Khartoum and California and the time needed for the meeting in Khartoum makes it impractical for Mesfin to attend to both engagements. With strong demand put forward by the ELF-RC editorial yesterday and the apparent "earlier commitment" absence of the Chairman of one of the heavy players in the opposition arena from the meeting, the EDA final meeting has a tough job ahead of it.