Human Rights Group Seeks Accounting of Ethiopian Food Aid

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Report - An Ethiopian human rights group is demanding that the United States and other international donors monitor the food and financial aid they give to Ethiopia for its impoverished Ogaden region.

As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, activists say the government has blocked food aid to the Ogaden as it tries to quash a local rebel group.

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The Ogaden Human Rights Committee says Ethiopia's government has sparked a humanitarian crisis in the Ogaden and is asking nations from around the world to contribute aid. But it says they must make sure the donations get to the people who need them most.

Last week, the United States announced it is providing nearly $19 million in food assistance for the Ogaden through the U.N. World Food Program. Some money also will help pay for health, nutrition, and livelihood programs.(More...)

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ETHIOPIA SAYS IT WILL ATTEND ERITREA BORDER TALKS

Ethiopia said on Monday it will attend a meeting next week in The Hague to discuss its disputed border with Eritrea, but said its neighbour had made demarcation of the frontier impossible.(More...)

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Dibaba wins in miracle fightback

"That was the hardest race of my life," Tirunesh Dibaba told reporters. "I had terrible stomach pain and then I was so far back I thought it would be impossible to come back. "But I did it for my country. I was struggling but I told myself to hang in. I didn't want to let down the people back home in Ethiopia." (Aug. 25, 2007)



(VIDEO - This past Saturday, Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia made an astonishing recovery to win a dramatic women's 10,000 metres)





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