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Ethiopia: Norwegian Envoy to Somalia exchanged views on regional issues
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 25, 2014 – Defense and National security news. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dewano Kedir, met Jens Mjaugedal, Norwegian Special Envoy to Somalia. Discussions focused on the need to strengthen the innovative cooperative partnership with the view to elevate bilateral ties to a new level, working in concert for the creation…
Somaliland: Norway will assist the fight against regional piracy projects
Hargeisa (HAN) September 24, 2014 – Public diplomacy and National security news. President Ahmed Silanyo received at the presidential palace Norway’s Special Envoy to Somalia Mr. Jens Mjaugel who arrived in the country on official working visit to Hargeisa. During the meeting they exchanged views on number of issues ranging from Norway providing assistance to…
Ethiopia: ‘Vision 2025’, the leading airline in Africa carrying 18 million passengers
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 23, 2014 – International aviation and Tourism news. The American erospace innovation Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines have announced an order for 20 737 MAX 8s. “This historic order for Boeing and our partner Ethiopian once again positions the carrier at the heart of African aerospace innovation with the acquisition of the…
Eritrea: Ethiopian Ginbot 7 members are suffering debilitating illnesses
Asmara (HAN) September, 23. 2014 – Defense and National security news. The few remaining Ginbot 7 members in Eritrea are suffering from malnutrition and debilitating illnesses. The Ethiopian Amara Ginbot 7’s former head of training in Eritrea, Masresha Badenga, says that the organization has less than 20 members in the field and most of them…
Somalia: National Intelligence officers are screening Al-Shabaab defectors
Mogadishu (HAN) September, 23. 2014 – Defense and National security news. The number of Al-shabaab defectors who have surrendered to the government security continue to increase as the joint forces plan to move on the second major military offensive. Lower Shabelle Governor Abdukadir Nur Siidii has mentioned that 41 newly defected Al-shabaab members have surrendered…
Djibouti: Is ISIS a threat to American, European or Canadians?
Djibouti (HAN) September 23, 2014 – Defense and National security news. The Militants audio recording says it does not matter whether the “disbeliever” is civilian or military. “The best thing you can do is to strive to your best and kill any disbeliever, whether he be French, American, Canadian, Australian, British or from any of…
Kenya: Exporters from East Africa will maintain duty-free access to Europe
Nairobi (HAN) September 22, 2014 – International trade agreement news. David Malingha Doya, Bloomberg. exporters from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi will maintain duty-free access to Europe. The East African Community negotiated a draft agreement to extend preferential trade access with the European Union, intended to replace an interim accord expiring next week, Kenya’s…
Ethiopia: largest investor Al-Amoudi plans to double production
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 22, 2014 – International trade and Investment news.By William Davison, Bloomberg. Al-Amoudi is single largest investor in Ethiopia. Horizon Plantations Ethiopia Plc, majority-owned by Saudi billionaire Mohamed al-Amoudi, plans to almost double annual revenue within three years by investing at least $500 million in coffee and orange projects. Sheikh Al-Amoudi, born in…
Ethiopia: Canada is ready to support technologies of mining sector development
Toronto (HAN) September 22, 2014. International Development and investment partnership news. According to the Canadian Eye on Africa sources told Geeska Afrika Online reporter in Toronto, Canada’s most powerfull Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, with Christian Paradis meets Ethiopian Minister Tolessa Shagi meets in Toronto Ethiopia’s Minister of Mines, Tolessa Shagi, met with…
Ethiopia: joint Mineral Development Shares Signed in Canada
Toronto (HAN) September 21, 2014. Mineral development investment news. The Ethiopian Mineral Development Share Company signs MoU on joint development with CVMR Corporation. The Ethiopian Mineral Development Share Company (EMDSC) and CVMR Ltd signed a Memorandum of Understanding aiming at “forming a partnership that would lead to Tantalum, Niobium, Lithium, Nickel, iron, and PGM ore…
