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January 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Eritrea’s ambassador to the African Union Girma Asmerom said Ethiopia’s allegations are “fabricated” and an “absolute lie” and that the attack is an internal Ethiopian matter.
Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a border war from 1998 to 2000, which claimed the lives of about 80,000 people. Tension between the neighbouring East African countries rose last year when a UN report revealed that Eritrea was behind a plot to attack an African Union summit in Ethiopia in January.
Launsky-Tiefenthal said there was an Austrian Foreign Ministry travel warning in effect for the region since 2007 “because of several incidents involving attacks on tourist groups … in some case politically motivated in others criminally motivated.”
In 2007, five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians were kidnapped in the remote Afar region. Ethiopia accused Eritrea of masterminding that kidnapping, but Eritrea blamed an Ethiopian rebel group.
All of those hostages were released, though some of the Ethiopians were held for more than a month.
In 2008, Ethiopia foiled a kidnapping attempt on a group of 28 French tourists in the area.
“The problem is, there is no infrastructure in the area, no telephone lines, satellite phones barely work,” Launsky-Tiefenthal said, describing the remote area as akin to “the surface of Mars.”
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