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1. Religious leaders in Eritrea have called on the international community to demonstrate more concern for the plight of Eritreans deported from Ethiopia. In their appeal, leaders from the Christian and Islamic faiths urged the UN, the OAU, and other diplomatic missions and humanitarian organizations to intensify their efforts in solving the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict peacefully. The religious leaders asked the world community to sympathize with victims of the Ethiopian government's inhumane deportations and called upon the international community to work towards the restoration of the rights of Eritreans deported from Ethiopia.
2. The Ethiopian government has admitted it was aware of a violent ethnic clash in southern Ethiopia over a month ago, Reuters reports. The clash in the Oromiya region of southern Ethiopia was first revealed in a statement by the Southern Ethiopia's People's Democratic Coalition (SEPDC) published by the opposition newspaper Amaratch last week. The article accused the Ethiopian government of fueling the conflict through poor administration and attempting to conceal the clash from public knowledge. Ethiopia's confession comes only days after the article was published but weeks after the clash which the SEPDC says took the lives of some 3,000 Ethiopians and displaced over 100,000 more.
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