• 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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• Ethiopia sentences Kenyan, nine others for plotting terror attacks

  Thursday 17 January 2013
  By Tesfa-Alem Tekle January 16, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - A court in Ethiopia on Tuesday passed jail terms against nine individuals including one Kenyan national who are alleged to be members of a terrorist cell affiliated with Al Qaeda’s (...)

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• Chad tells France that Mali rebels may have entered Sudan: diplomat

  Wednesday 27 February 2013
  February 26, 2013 (PARIS) - Malian rebels who seized control of their country’s northern region last year may have crossed into Sudan, a well-placed diplomatic source told Sudan Tribune. Chad President Idriss Deby sits during the (...)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ethiopian troops attacked in Somalia as AU announce their pull-out in April

  Sunday 11 March 2012
  By Tesfa-Alem Tekle March 10, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopian forces will hand over two recently captured towns in Somalia which were the strongholds of the Al-Qaida allied Al-Shabab Islamist militants in Somalia to African Union (...)

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• AU and Somali forces capture Al-Shabab key town

  Sunday 4 March 2012
  By Tesfa-Alem Tekle March 2, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Somali government and African Union peacekeeping forces (AMISOM) on Friday launched an attack against al-Shabaab insurgents, capturing Maslah, a town just 5km from Mogadshu. (...)

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