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A gelada nibbles on a stick in an outdoor pen at the Zurich zoo
20 Dec 2006
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A gelada, Theropithecus gelada, nibbles on a stick in an outdoor pen at the Zurich zoo December 20, 2006. Gelada baboons which inhabit mountain grasslands in Ethiopia are categorised as being at a lower risk of extinction by the World Conservationist Union's (IUCN) Red List, which lists threatened species.
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi speaks during an interview in Addis Ababa in this October 24, 2006 file picture. Three wily old soldiers who know each other only too well from years at the heart of conflict and power-play across the Horn of Africa are once again pitting their military wits in the Somalia war. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, his ally Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, and their mutual arch-foe -- Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys -- are the key players in a flare-up many fear could spread across the region.


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