• Ethiopia produces first military drone aircraft

  Thursday 14 February 2013
  By Tesfa-Alem Tekle February 14, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – An Ethiopian military source has told Sudan Tribune that the country has built the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone which could be used for multiple purposes. A US (...)

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• Leader of Al-Qaeda in Sudan killed in Mali: reports

  Saturday 23 February 2013
  February 22, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The leader of Sudan’s Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Two Niles group, Abu Hazim, was killed in an airstrike carried out recently by French warplanes on the positions of jihadists in northern Mali. An (...)

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• JEM rebels "sight" Malian rebels in north Darfur

  Monday 18 February 2013
  February 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of several rebel groups fighting a decade-long war against Khartoum in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, Monday claimed that they have detected and documented (...)

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• African Union agrees on tougher anti-terror action

  Saturday 16 October 2004
  By Paul de Bendern ALGIERS, Oct 14 (Reuters) - African governments agreed on Thursday to push for tougher action to root out the terrorism that still threatens the continent despite the anti-terror campaign in force since September (...)

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• UN warns Darfur a potential “fertile ground” for jihadist groups

  Monday 26 January 2015
  January 25, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s troubled western Darfur region of may be “potentially fertile ground” for African jihadist radical groups currently active in the continent, particularly in North and West Africa, a report by a panel (...)

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• Ethiopia arrest suspected Al-Qaeda allied militants

  Friday 4 January 2013
  By Tesfa-Alem Tekle January 3, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia’s security forces have arrested 15 individuals alleged to be members of a terrorist cell affiliated with Al Qaeda’s network in the East African region, the country’s (...)

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• Obama urges Ethiopia’s new leader to promote human rights, security

  Sunday 26 August 2012
  By Tesfa-Alem Tekle August 25, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - US president, Barack Obama, has spoken with Ethiopia’s acting prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, who has become nation’s new leader following the death of his predecessor on 21 (...)

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• Sudan’s ruling NCP describes Bin Laden as a "holy fighter"

  Tuesday 3 May 2011
  May 2, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The West should withdraw its forces from Afghanistan after the United States announced that it has killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, an official in the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan said (...)

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• Ethiopia and Qatar restore diplomatic ties

  Wednesday 24 October 2012
  October 23, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia and Qatar have agreed to open diplomatic relations after both been at odds for more than four years, according to Ethiopian press. Ethiopia cut diplomatic ties with Qatar in 2008, accusing (...)

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• Ethiopian forces seize Somali rebel’s stronghold Baidoa

  Friday 24 February 2012
  By Tesfa-Alem Tekle February 23, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopian and Somali forces on Wednesday captured the strategic Somali town of Baidoa from the hands of the al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabaab militant group, according to the Ethiopian (...)

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