| September 4, 2007 | -
Ethiopian authorities planned to use strychnine-laced meat to kill tens of thousands of stray dogs in Addis Ababa before the Coptic New Year.
| Source:
AP via Newsvine.com
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| January 12, 2007 | - Mengistu Haile Mariam, the former dictator of Ethiopia who now lives comfortably in Zimbabwe, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment on genocide charges.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 13, 2006 | - Former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who is said to have strangled Emperor Haile Selassie with his bare hands and buried him under a toilet, was convicted of genocide by an Ethiopian court.
| Source:
NYT
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| September 4, 2006 | - Around 125 people in Ethiopia died from an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea.
| Source 1:
Seacoast Online
Source 2:
Reuters
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| July 21, 2006 | -
Somalia declared an “all out holy war” on Ethiopia.
| Source:
Somalinet.com via Google News
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| July 19, 2006 | -
Ethiopia denied reports that it had attacked Somalia.
| Source:
BBC
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| November 2, 2005 | - In Ethiopia, 23 people were killed during protests over government vote-rigging.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 21, 2005 | - In Ethiopia a twelve-year-old girl was abducted and was about to be forced into marriage but was rescued by lions, which ran her captors off and guarded her until police and relatives came to her rescue.
| Source:
AP
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| March 5, 2005 | - Archaeologists in Ethiopia unearthed several four-million-year-old skeletons believed to be ancestors of modern humans.
| Source:
Reuters
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