Ethiopia


ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopian officials on Wednesday released a top opposition leader who had been sentenced to life in prison after the government said she had violated a pardon agreement and sent her back to jail in late 2008.

JUBA, Sudan - The president of Southern Sudan on Friday warned cheering crowds of a return to violence "on a massive scale" if the region's independence referendum - now 100 days away - is not held on time.

NAIROBI, Kenya - The international community must engage more with the authoritarian government of Eritrea to prevent the tiny Red Sea nation from becoming another failed state in the Horn of Africa, said a new report by the International Crisis Group.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Authorities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland say their troops have surrounded up to 300 Ethiopian rebels who entered the territory illegally.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A group of exiled Eritreans say they're setting up an interim government to serve in case Eritrea's authoritarian government collapses.
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