Nyota Minerals (LON:NYO,ASX:NYO) has found multiple new gold targets on its northern licences in Ethiopia, around 100 kilometres away from its flagship Tulu Kapi mine development project.
It highlighted three of the most substantial targets in a statement to the stock exchange this morning. The main targets are Boka-Sirba, the Quartz Vein (QV) target and the Mole-Fadumi target.
These targets were initially picked out from airborne geophysics data and were subsequently confirmed through a substantial reconnaissance field programm. Nyota said it has confirmed the presence of gold mineralisation, and base metals, in a large number of heavy mineral concentrate samples.
"Nyota believes that the scale of the individual targets discovered together with the confirmed presence of both gold and base metal mineralisation is significant,” chairman Melissa Sturgess said.
“No assay results have been received to date but the exploration team have clear evidence of gold present at all of the major targets complemented by active artisanal mining.”
A variety of samples – taken from stream sediments, rock chips and soil – have been submitted for assay.
Sturgess emphasised Nyota’s ‘twin focus’ which is still set on building the Tulu Kapi production profile and exploring the group’s other licence areas to provide the medium and long-term growth potential.
She added: “The discovery of potentially large, previously unrecognised gold and base metal targets to the north of Tulu Kapi in conjunction with the multiple gold targets already discovered in and around Tulu Kapi, strengthens the company's view that its large landholding sits within a new gold province in western Ethiopia."
The northern licences comprise four separate exploration areas - Bambasi, Mendi, Gombe and Dura – and collectively they cover about 3,200 square kilometres.
The three individual targets named in this morning’s statements were found within broader target areas, Nyota said. The group noted other targets of merit namely Bendokoro North, Daleti-Urungu and Wawu North.
It also highlighted that from a geological point of view the structurally complex, with multiple styles of mineralisation recorded to date.
Once the assay results are in Nyota plans to prioritise a group of targets for a drill programme which could get underway in the fourth quarter of 2011, after Ethiopia’s wet season.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Ethiopia rebels say govt troops kill 100 civilians - AlertNet
Addis Ababa often rejects rebel claims
* Rebels say troops tried to 'silence' U.N. witnesses
* Two U.N. workers still missing
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA, May 16 (Reuters) - Ethiopian government troops have killed more than 100 civilians, including a local U.N. worker, during a five-day military operation in the oil and gas-rich Somali Region, a rebel group said on Monday.
More commonly known as the Ogaden, the ethnic Somali province is home to a low-key insurgency led by the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), which has fought for independence since 1984.
Government officials could not be reached for comment.
"The Ethiopian army and its local conscripts killed more than 100 civilian people from May 10 - 15 in the area, (and it) is still on going," the ONLF said in a statement.
"The (ONLF) intelligence service has ascertained that the Ethiopian army conducted the killing and abduction of U.N. local staff in the Ogaden jointly with the notorious militia of the (local) administration," it said.
The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Saturday that one of its drivers had been killed in an ambush by unknown gunmen in an attack that left another staff member wounded. [ID:nLDE74D0CU]
Two members of the convoy were also missing, WFP said.
The ONLF said the incidents occurred while government troops conducted "kill-on-sight" operations in the Ogaden's Fafan valley and that the attack on the U.N. convoy was an attempt to "silence" its employees who had witnessed the operations.
Authorities in Addis Ababa were not immediately available for comment, but they usually reject the group's claims as "baseless propaganda".
The allegations are impossible to verify because journalists and aid groups cannot move unhindered in the area.
This is not the first time the ONLF has accused government troops of atrocities in the region. The group said in January that soldiers had arbitrarily executed civilians and carried out ethnic cleansing in the province, a charge dismissed by the authorities. [ID:nLDE70K10N]
Ethiopian forces waged an offensive against the rebels in late 2007 after the ONLF staged a pre-dawn attack on a Chinese-run oil facility, killing 74 people. Analysts say the rebels have since been weakened, but are still capable of launching hit-and-run attacks.
Ethiopia signed a peace deal in October with one faction of the ONLF, though another wing labelled the deal "irrelevant". The faction with which Addis Ababa sealed the accord says it represents 80 percent of the group's fighters.
The Horn of Africa nation says the Ogaden basin may contain gas reserves of 4 trillion cubic feet and major oil deposits. (Editing by Richard Lough and Elizabeth Fullerton)
* Rebels say troops tried to 'silence' U.N. witnesses
* Two U.N. workers still missing
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA, May 16 (Reuters) - Ethiopian government troops have killed more than 100 civilians, including a local U.N. worker, during a five-day military operation in the oil and gas-rich Somali Region, a rebel group said on Monday.
More commonly known as the Ogaden, the ethnic Somali province is home to a low-key insurgency led by the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), which has fought for independence since 1984.
Government officials could not be reached for comment.
"The Ethiopian army and its local conscripts killed more than 100 civilian people from May 10 - 15 in the area, (and it) is still on going," the ONLF said in a statement.
"The (ONLF) intelligence service has ascertained that the Ethiopian army conducted the killing and abduction of U.N. local staff in the Ogaden jointly with the notorious militia of the (local) administration," it said.
The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Saturday that one of its drivers had been killed in an ambush by unknown gunmen in an attack that left another staff member wounded. [ID:nLDE74D0CU]
Two members of the convoy were also missing, WFP said.
The ONLF said the incidents occurred while government troops conducted "kill-on-sight" operations in the Ogaden's Fafan valley and that the attack on the U.N. convoy was an attempt to "silence" its employees who had witnessed the operations.
Authorities in Addis Ababa were not immediately available for comment, but they usually reject the group's claims as "baseless propaganda".
The allegations are impossible to verify because journalists and aid groups cannot move unhindered in the area.
This is not the first time the ONLF has accused government troops of atrocities in the region. The group said in January that soldiers had arbitrarily executed civilians and carried out ethnic cleansing in the province, a charge dismissed by the authorities. [ID:nLDE70K10N]
Ethiopian forces waged an offensive against the rebels in late 2007 after the ONLF staged a pre-dawn attack on a Chinese-run oil facility, killing 74 people. Analysts say the rebels have since been weakened, but are still capable of launching hit-and-run attacks.
Ethiopia signed a peace deal in October with one faction of the ONLF, though another wing labelled the deal "irrelevant". The faction with which Addis Ababa sealed the accord says it represents 80 percent of the group's fighters.
The Horn of Africa nation says the Ogaden basin may contain gas reserves of 4 trillion cubic feet and major oil deposits. (Editing by Richard Lough and Elizabeth Fullerton)
Thursday, May 12, 2011
NATO intercepts military cargo ship bound for Eritrea - UN
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(Source: Sudan Tribune)By Sudan Tribune
May 12-- -- NATO Naval forces have reportedly captured a heavy weapon carrying cargo ship destined to Eritrea in the international waters of the Indian Ocean.
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance between the US and various European countries. It is currently engaged in the bombing of Libya.
A UN monitoring group report this week revealed that the cargo originally shipped from North Korea was carrying 15 tonnes of rockets, surface to air missiles and explosives worth $US15 million.
In December 2009, the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against Eritrea, which include an arms embargo, travel restrictions and a freeze on the assets of its political and military leaders for an alleged involvement in training and supplying weapons to Al-Qaida and links Somali Islamic rebels.
After the UN Security Council passed the resolution against the red sea nation, the Southern Red Sea and the Indian Ocean have increasingly been monitored by multi-national naval forces mainly from the US, France and Germany, to maintain security and international law in the waters.
The Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group have been accusing the Government of Eritrea being a regional destabilising factor by its continued political, financial and allegedly military assistance to armed opposition groups in Somalia.
There are allegations that Eritrea has been importing arms from Eastern Europe and Asia.
Ethiopia has recently threatened to attack Eritrea to stop an alleged continued terrorist acts and the armies of both sides have remained on high alert then after. Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia, making its larger neighbour landlocked, in 1993 following 30 years of struggle however the two neighbours fought a 1998-2000 war over their disputed border that killed over 70,000 people.
(Source: Sudan Tribune)By Sudan Tribune
May 12-- -- NATO Naval forces have reportedly captured a heavy weapon carrying cargo ship destined to Eritrea in the international waters of the Indian Ocean.
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance between the US and various European countries. It is currently engaged in the bombing of Libya.
A UN monitoring group report this week revealed that the cargo originally shipped from North Korea was carrying 15 tonnes of rockets, surface to air missiles and explosives worth $US15 million.
In December 2009, the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against Eritrea, which include an arms embargo, travel restrictions and a freeze on the assets of its political and military leaders for an alleged involvement in training and supplying weapons to Al-Qaida and links Somali Islamic rebels.
After the UN Security Council passed the resolution against the red sea nation, the Southern Red Sea and the Indian Ocean have increasingly been monitored by multi-national naval forces mainly from the US, France and Germany, to maintain security and international law in the waters.
The Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group have been accusing the Government of Eritrea being a regional destabilising factor by its continued political, financial and allegedly military assistance to armed opposition groups in Somalia.
There are allegations that Eritrea has been importing arms from Eastern Europe and Asia.
Ethiopia has recently threatened to attack Eritrea to stop an alleged continued terrorist acts and the armies of both sides have remained on high alert then after. Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia, making its larger neighbour landlocked, in 1993 following 30 years of struggle however the two neighbours fought a 1998-2000 war over their disputed border that killed over 70,000 people.
Capital FM Kenya: Kenya, Ethiopia leaders in talks after killings
    1/1 President Kibaki with Ethiopian PM Zenawi/ PPS KAMPALA, Uganda, May 12 - President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday held crisis talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi over the recent attacks in Turkana. |
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Monday, May 9, 2011
At least 19 dead in Kenya, Ethiopia border clashes
ISIOLO, Kenya - Clashes between tribesmen in the remote, arid northern region of Kenya that borders Ethiopia killed at least 19 people and security has been beefed up in case of more reprisals, officials said on Tuesday.
Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Osman Warfa told Reuters 19 Kenyans died in fighting with raiders from the Merrille tribe, also know as the Dassenech, from Ethiopia.
Cattle rustling and clashes over grazing land and access to water are relatively common in the region, though the extent of the casualties this week has concerned local officials.
"Our team has assessed the situation and established that the attackers were from the Merrille community from Ethiopia who had come inside Kenya," Osman said.
"Security has been beefed up. We have deployed more security forces and we are liaising with the Ethiopian government to restore calm and contain the situation," he said.
Another government official in northern Kenya said 21 Kenyans had died along with four Ethiopian tribesman in a series of tit-for-tat clashes along the border.
He said one Kenyan died in an initial raid into Turkana by the Merille. The Kenyan tribesman retailated, killed four Ethiopians and pursued one man who escaped. But the Kenyans came under attack again and 20 were killed, the official said.
The Ethiopian government said it was checking on the reports but did not have an immediate comment.
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