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10-02-04, 16:40
'New clashes' in Ethiopia
Scores of people are reported to have been killed in renewed violence in Ethiopia's tense Gambella region.
United Nations officials say that up to 40 people died in the clashes, reports the UN's Irin news agency.
Last year, some 150 people died in violence between ethnic Nuers and Anyuaks.
The latest clashes are said to have occurred at a gold mine near Dima, some 800 km south-west of Addis Ababa.
Reuters news agency quotes an unnamed source as saying that Anyuaks were targeted in a two-day killing spree in Dima after a group of armed Anyuaks killed some mine-workers.
Violence also reportedly broke at out a nearby camp home to some 18,000 Sudanese refugees.
Since the attacks, staff of the UN's food and refugee agencies have been relocated, Irin reports.
A United States security team has gone to the region to investigate the sporadic violence, the agency says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3475851.stm
Scores of people are reported to have been killed in renewed violence in Ethiopia's tense Gambella region.
United Nations officials say that up to 40 people died in the clashes, reports the UN's Irin news agency.
Last year, some 150 people died in violence between ethnic Nuers and Anyuaks.
The latest clashes are said to have occurred at a gold mine near Dima, some 800 km south-west of Addis Ababa.
Reuters news agency quotes an unnamed source as saying that Anyuaks were targeted in a two-day killing spree in Dima after a group of armed Anyuaks killed some mine-workers.
Violence also reportedly broke at out a nearby camp home to some 18,000 Sudanese refugees.
Since the attacks, staff of the UN's food and refugee agencies have been relocated, Irin reports.
A United States security team has gone to the region to investigate the sporadic violence, the agency says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3475851.stm