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Asmara denounces Ethiopian reports of renewed fighting

    NAIROBI

    The Eritrean government on Thursday rejected an Ethiopian allegation that Eritrean forces had launched an attack at Chin Keren on the Alitena-Mereb front. A statement from the Office of the Ethiopian Government Spokesperson, received by IRIN on Thursday, claimed that on Wednesday evening, Eritrea's first battalion launched an attack on Chin Keren which lasted through to Thursday morning, but which "Ethiopian defence forces
    successfully repelled."

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