A rebel group has promised the release of two German nationals who were kidnapped in the Afar region of Ethiopia last week when a group of European tourists were attacked, killing five of them. The rebel group, Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF), in its first

NAIROBI, Kenya, January 21 – Kenya on Saturday dismissed a report by the United Nations exonerating Eritrea from claims that it funded the Al Shabaab militia with both monetary and ammunitions support against the Kenya defence forces saying it is one sided. Speaking during a press

Ethiopia on Thursday threatened to take action against Eritrea if the international community remained silent on Asmara's terrorist acts. The warning comes days after several European tourists and Ethiopians were attacked in that country's Afar region, close to the Eritrean border. Addis Ababa has accused Asmara of

Addis Ababa said Friday that two Germans kidnapped during a deadly attack by unidentified gunmen on a group of tourists in northern Ethiopia had been taken to neighbouring Ethiopia. Germany said it was still investigating the pair's whereabouts. "There is news that they are in Eritrea by

Thousands of poor migrants from across Africa are being kidnapped by Bedouin gangs Refugees from sub-Saharan Africa are being kidnapped, tortured and ransomed for thousands of dollars in the Egyptian Sinai in what human rights activists say is the world's forgotten hostage crisis. Over the past

* Tourists attacked early Tuesday * Addis Ababa says "Eritrea-trained" group responsible * Eritrea denies accusation (Adds hostages believed to be inside Eritrea) By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Authorities in Ethiopia's northern Afar region have sent elders to try to secure the release of two

By SOLOMON MOORE NAIROBI—Tensions rose between Ethiopia and Eritrea on Wednesday, after officials from the two hostile east African neighbors blamed each other for the killing of five European tourists along their border. Ethiopian spokesman Bereket Simon said gunmen who carried out Monday's attack in the Afar

* Five foreign tourists killed on Monday * German nationals among victims * Ethiopia routinely accuses Eritrea of plotting attacks By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Eritrea has rejected Ethiopia's accusations that it trained and armed gunmen who attacked a group of foreign tourists in Ethiopia's

* Addis Ababa says gunmen trained, armed by foe Eritrea * German nationals among those killed - diplomat says * Afar known as a haunt for rebels, bandits (Adds Ethiopian government spokesman, details, background) By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed five foreign tourists

Gunmen have killed five foreign tourists in Ethiopia's remote northern Afar region, after crossing into the country from neighbouring Eritrea, an Ethiopian official said. A western diplomat said that German nationals were among those killed in the shooting which happened late on Monday. He did not

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea did not airlift arms to Islamist militants in the Somali town of Baidoa late last year, a preliminary U.N. report has found, pouring cold water on a charge that sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries. Kenya accused

January 16, 2012 Antonio Guterres The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Genève, Switzerland Your Excellency, The International Commission on Eritrean Refugees would like to express its gratitude of your Excellency’s visit to the Shagarab refugee camp, the largest in the Sudan and perhaps the first to be established by the

Press Release, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 16, 2010. The new Eritrean National Council for Democratic Change is outraged by the inhumanity of the government of Eritrea toward suffering Eritrean refugees fleeing repression and torture at home. The Executive Office denounces the brutalization and killings of Eritrean

By Ian Timberlake (AFP) SHAGARAB REFUGEE CAMP, SUDAN — Moving at night through the cold, flat desert, armed people smugglers are exploiting, abducting and sometimes killing Eritreans fleeing their authoritarian homeland, the UN and refugees say. "People catch us, sell us like a goat," one Eritrean asylum-seeker

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This was what one of the cronies of the Eritrean embassy in South Africa has to shout as we were trying to make our way to the venue (Hellenics Conference Centre/Johannesburg/South Africa) where top officials of the Eritrean regime: Yemane Gebreab and Osman Salih were