Asmara, Eritrea News

The Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization , stands hand in hand with our brothers and sisters in afar regional state, with people of Ethiopia, as well as with International community by denouncing unprovoked Terrorist action by Eritrean government and its agents in Erta-Ale, Danakil Depression, Afar Region on Jan 17th, 2012.

An Ethiopian rebel group said at the weeked it had kidnapped two German tourists and two Ethiopians, adding that they were safe, in good health and could be released unharmed.

A deadly attack on European tourists along the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea has renewed a war of words between the two rivals, with Asmara rejecting accusations by Addis Ababa that it was behind the violence.

Ethiopia has warned that it will take action againstA Eritrea A after five tourists were killed by gunmen who are believed to have crossed from the neighbouringA Eritrea.

Ethiopian official says five tourists killed by gunmen in remote Afar region near border with Eritrea were 'mostly from Europe' The only foreigners who normally venture into the Afar region are researchers, aid workers and adventure tourists visiting geographical wonders such as the Danakil depression.

Eritrea's envoy to the United Nations says his country is vindicated following a recently-released preliminary U.N. report that found insufficient evidence that Asmara provided weapons to Somalia militant group al-Shabab last year.