Headline news between Jan 11 - 20 / 2000

Oau Upbeat towards Peace Settlement of Ethio-Eritrean Conflict

ADDIS ABABA (Jan. 14) XINHUA - The Organization of African Unity (OAU) is upbeat towards the peace settlement of the 20-month Ethio-Eritrean border conflict, the Addis Tribune newspaper reported Friday.

The Tall Tales of the Eritrean Fuhrer

By: Million Rahman

. . . Isaias's ego to come out as the victorious fuhrer over the Horn was dashed to pieces on the plains of BADME - the region he swor it would be the end of the Sun if his army would leave Badme with a tag of defeat on its back. But the BADME Victory - as it had been the sweet victory for Ethiopians - was an equally bitter pill for the Eritrean dictator. . .

Plan to End War Rejected As 'Weak and Unacceptable'

The East African (Nairobi)
January 12, 2000

Nairobi -Only a few days after the European Union's announcement that it plans to send a special envoy to the Horn of Africa to support efforts to end the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, an Ethiopian embassy official in Nairobi dismissed the current Organisation of African Unity peace proposal as technically weak and unacceptable.

Famine Killing Children Daily in Ethiopia

10:13 a.m. Jan 13, 2000 Eastern

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least six children under the age of five are dying of hunger each day in Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region, a local humanitarian organization said on Thursday.

To Hon.Mr Benjamin A. Gilman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

From: The Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs (House of People's Representatives).

. . . If you are forcibly pushing us to accept any arrangement that would not fully guarantee our sovereignty and territorial integrity we would like to tell you, that clearly, that it is absolutely unacceptable. Ethiopia in her entire history has never surrendered to any external pressure and definitely it will never do so.

• Respond to Rep. Benjamin Gilman

  By: Tesfaye Yigzaw

  . . . If Mr. Gilman has been truly concerned finding solution, he should advice Eritrea to use their scarce resources in learning international laws, norms and rules rather than spending on delusional ambition of becoming the world power. He should also tell them to vacate the land they have occupied. . . . . . Let us ask our selves few questions; stealing aids grain is a crime, is it not? Who is going to clear the land mines they planted on the area? Who is responsible for hundreds of thousands of lives perished because of the Eritrean aggression?

STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI . . .

PORT ELIZABETH, JANUARY 11, 2000.
Issued by: ANC

. . . That Ethiopianism constituted the assertion of the dignity of the African. It was a revolt against the arrogance of others who came from outside our Continent and pretended that as Africans we were devoid of any sense of spirituality; who claimed that their sense of God was superior to our own sense of God.

That Ethiopianism was a struggle to reassert the truth of the Holy Scriptures that "all humanity is created in the image of the triune God".

Thirty-nine parties to contest Ethiopia elections

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Thirty-nine political parties, including 17 from the opposition, will contest Ethiopia's second multi-party elections in May, officials said on Tuesday.

UK Stops Guaranteeing Arms Loans To Developing Nations

OXFORD, England, 11/01/2000, (AP)--The U.K. government said Tuesday that it would stop underwriting arms loans to another 22 developing countries, including Cambodia, Mongolia and Eritrea, bringing the total to 63.