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01 Jan 2001

Eritrea
OCHA Presence in Eritrea 2001

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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31 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
Red Cross Repatriates 641 More Ethiopians From Eritrea

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— Pan African News Agency
Addis Ababa - An additional 641 Ethiopian civilians were repatriated Saturday from Eritrea, bringing the total number returned home within a week under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to 2,055.
They were transferred from Adi Abeto detention camp near Asmara and taken to the Ethiopian border town of Rama, via the Mereb River crossing point, the ICRC said in a press release Sunday.

It added that Ethiopian and Eritrea red cross volunteers assisted in the operation.

In a similar operation 23 December, 1,414

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31 Dec 2000

Eritrea
Displaced Eritreans Hope Peace Agreement Will Allow Them To Return Home

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— UN Population Fund
Asmara, Eritrea - Aregash Kebede and Bereket Berhan are ready to go home. They are among the 300,000 Eritreans still living in camps months after fleeing the brutal border war between their country and Ethiopia. Both hope the arrival of United Nations peacekeepers will bring closer their dream of returning to a normal life.
Troops from two dozen countries will enforce the peace agreement Eritrea and Ethiopia signed 12 December in Algiers. Deployment of the first contingents to arrive, from the Netherlands and Canada, began a week earlier.

Kebede, 22, bides her time in Alba, a

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31 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 5 others
OAU chief foresees new beginning for Africa

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— Agence France-Presse
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 31 (AFP) - Organisation of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim has expressed confidence that the new year will usher in a fresh beginning for the African continent.
"I remain confident and optimistic over the prospects for a new beginning for our continent in the new century," Salim said in an address late Saturday to mark the end of the year.

"I am looking forward to that new beginning in which good governance, respect for human rights and a consolidation of the democratization process will prevail in Africa," he said.

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31 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 9 others
WHO: EHA Highlights Issue 6, Dec 2000

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— World Health Organization


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29 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
U.S. wants end of arms ban on Ethiopia and Eritrea

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— Reuters - AlertNet
By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 29 Reuters) - The United States has introduced a resolution to lift the arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea because of their recently-signed peace accord to end their two-year old border war.

U.S. officials had wanted a vote on the measure on Friday but council members said they preferred to consider the controversy next week. Canada and the Netherlands, who have peacekeepers in the two Horn of Africa nations, oppose ending the embargo until May when it is due to expire.

The weapons ban was imposed last May

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28 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
Ethiopian-Eritrean military commission meets in Nairobi

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— Agence France-Presse
NAIROBI, Dec 28 (AFP) - Senior military officers from Ethiopia and Eritrea met here Thursday with UN officials to work out details of implementing a peace accord signed earlier this month, the United Nations said.

The meeting of the Military Coordination Commission (MCC), the second of its kind, was aimed at "resolving military peacekeeping force issues," said Albert Wong, spokesman of the UN's mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, known as UNMEE.

An UNMEE statement said the meeting had agreed "on full transparency of all relevant information on known

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28 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
UN mission opens new land corridor linking Eritrea and Ethiopia

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— Agence France-Presse
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 28 (AFP) - The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has opened a fourth land corridor between the two countries two weeks after they signed a peace accord ending a two-year border conflict, officials said Thursday.

The corridor, on the western front, was opened Tuesday. Colonel Getachew Tefera, the Ethiopian defence ministry official responsible for external relations and peace, said the corridor was for the exclusive use of UNMEE civilian and military personnel.

It links the Eritrean town of Omhajer

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28 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
Ethiopia and Eritrea agree to greater freedom of movement by UN peacekeepers

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— UN Department of Public Information
Top military officials from Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed at a meeting in Nairobi today to give United Nations peacekeepers greater freedom of movement between the two formerly warring countries.
At the meeting of the Military Coordination Commission, which is chaired by the Force Commander of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), Major-General Patrick Cammaert, the two sides agreed to the development of protocols for greater freedom of movement by UNMEE aircraft and helicopters in the mission area.

Major General Alemshet Degife, leading

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28 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
Statement From The Second Meeting Of The Military Coordination Commission Of The United Nations Mission In Ethiopia And Eritrea

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— UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Press Statement
UNMEE PUBLIC INFORMATION
Nairobi, 28 December 2000 -- The second meeting of the Military Coordination Commission (MCC) of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday, 28 December 2000.

Chaired by Major-General Patrick Cammaert, Force Commander of UNMEE, the, military delegations for their respective countries were lead by Major General Alemshet Degife from Ethiopia and Brigadier General Abrehaley from Eritrea.

At this meeting, both delegations agreed

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26 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
New Land Access Route Between Ethiopia and Eritrea Opens

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— Xinhua
ADDIS ABABA (Dec. 26) XINHUA - An additional land access route linking Ethiopia and Eritrea has been opened in the western front, an official from the Ethiopian Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday.

Head of Foreign Relations and Peacekeeping Department in the ministry Getachew Teferra said that the access route along the Humera-Omhajer crossing was opened in accordance with an agreement, which was reached in Nairobi, Kenya on December 2 at the first meeting of the Military Coordination Commission of United Nations Mission for Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).

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26 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
Japan to provide aid to Eritrean, Angolan refugees

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— Deutsche Presse Agentur
Tokyo (dpa) - The Japanese government Tuesday pledged 1.36 million dollars in emergency grants to support Eritreans who have suffered as a result of their country's two-year conflict with Ethiopia over a border dispute.

The government also decided to provide 550,000 dollars in emergency grants to help Angolan refugees from the civil war in the strife-torn country, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.

The money to Eritreans will be provided via the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help Eritrea's displaced and refugee populations who have been forced out of

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26 Dec 2000

Eritrea
Emergency Assistance for Conflict-Afflicted Persons in Eritrea

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— Government of Japan
On December 26 (Tue), the Government of Japan decided to extend through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) an emergency grant aid of 1,360,000 dollars for Eritrean victims of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

A fierce battle occurred this May between Eritrea and Ethiopia which have been engaged in the border conflict since May 1998. It displaced many Eritreans from their home and forced many of them, mainly women, children and the elderly, to seek refuge in neighboring countries, such as Sudan. According to the UNHCR, the number of Eritrean

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24 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
Ethiopia/Eritrea: ICRC has repatriated prisoners of war and civilian internees

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— ICRC
Communication to the press No. 00/50
Geneva (ICRC) - On Sunday, 24 December the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) completed a major operation to repatriate Ethiopian and Eritrean prisoners of war. These people - primarily the sick and seriously wounded - were the first prisoners to be released by the two sides following the Algiers agreement of 12 December. The operation started on 23 December and went smoothly, enabling 360 Ethiopians and 359 Eritreans to return to their home countries, at the end of 3 rotations. " Most of them knew about the ICRC since
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23 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
Ethiopia/Eritrea: ICRC repatriating over 700 prisoners of war

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— ICRC
Geneva (ICRC) - On Saturday 23 December, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) began, after a slight delay due to a technical problem of the airplane, repatriating some 700 Eritrean and Ethiopian prisoners of war, starting with the sick and seriously wounded. The operation, which will continue over the coming weekend, involves an ICRC-chartered transport aircraft making several trips between the two capitals, Addis Ababa and Asmara. Ahead of each flight, ICRC delegates hold private interviews with the POWs to check that they are all returning voluntarily.
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23 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
Eritrea/Ethiopia: "The Two Peoples Want Peace": President Isaias

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— Visafric
(Saturday, December 23, 2000)

Eritrea Profile

In an Interview with local journalists on December 19, President Isaias Afewerki affirmed that the comprehensive peace agreement reached between Eritrea and Ethiopia to resolve the border dispute can only be implemented by peaceful and legal means based on colonial boundaries.

On the Peace Process, Especially Recent Developments Culminating in the Signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement

A close examination of the ups and downs witnessed in the peace process over the past two and half years reveals

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23 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
UNMEE Statement on POW exchange by Governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea

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— UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Press Statemen
UNMEE PUBLIC INFORMATION
The exchange of prisoners of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea today is a very real indication that peace is taking root.

UNMEE commends the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea for this humane action.

What happened today and this weekend signals clearly -- to the international community, to the United Nations, and to the people in the region and in both countries - that the words of peace pronounced in Algiers are now being followed by the actions of peace both in Asmara and in Addis Ababa.

Thanks to the efforts of the International

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22 Dec 2000

Eritrea + 1 other
Ethopia Humanitarian Update 22 Dec 2000

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs


NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS
Ethiopia and Eritrea Sign Agreement to End Two Year Border Conflict

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