Category: Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Inequality in global coffee market discourages farmers
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) March 8,2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. BY ABEBE WOLDEGIORGIS. The coffee industry enjoyed a multi-billion dollar turn over business all over the wold and it is a source of revenue for many countries. In addition to that, it plays crucial role in creating value chain from growers to traders, processors, exporters and…
Ethiopia: Man Seeks Asylum after Surviving Flight in Plane Hold
Stockholm (HAN) March 8 ,2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Staff at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport found the 27-year-old man on board a plane arriving from Ethiopia, with police later confirming that he had asked for asylum in the Nordic country. Emergency services were called to Sweden’s largest airport on Monday morning after the plane…
What Ethiopia Can Teach the World
NAIROBI (HAN) JULY 27, 2014 . Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. BY BILL GATES. For a long time now, the international narrative about Africa has focused on how outside entities can help the people of that continent. This is changing. To an increasing degree, Africa is taking control of its own destiny. Across the continent,…
Dubai Police Arrested Seven Ethiopian Meat Trader
Dubai (HAN) March 7, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Ethiopia lemitik’ebelewi high meat production in United Arab Emirates in September 2008 El Judah take an organization of 200 thousand pounds of meat was purchased for more than seven Ethiopian abattoirs. However, more than a million dollars worth of meat to the United Arab Emirates…
Ethiopia: Freedom & Justice for Mr. Okello Akway Ochalla
NAIROBI (HAN) March 6, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.Action on Behalf of Indigenous Land Right Leader in Ethiopia Mr. Okello Akway Ochalla is a Norwegian citizen who was kidnapped in South Sudan and renditioned to Ethiopia in March 2014. Charged as a terrorist—his crime is defending indigenous land rights—he has languished in jail…
Aregawi Suspended by Sweden After Failed Dope Test
STOCKHOLM (HAN) March 1, 2016 –Geeska Sports. World indoor 1500 metres champion Abeba Aregawi has been banned from Swedish athletics after she tested positive for an unspecified banned substance, the national federation said on Monday. The suspension means the Ethiopian-born runner’s place in the Swedish team for the Rio Olympics in August is now in…
Ethiopia Anti-Doping Agency: 9 Athletes Under Investigation
Nairobi (HAN) March 1, 2016 –Geeska Sports. Nine Ethiopian runners, five of them “top athletes,” are under investigation for doping, the general secretary of the country’s anti-doping agency said Monday, raising fears of another damaging scandal for track and field in the run-up to the Rio Olympics. Solomon Meaza told The Associated Press that the…
Germany Offers Further Support for Humanitarian Projects in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) February 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. In a statement released on Sunday (February), the German Embassy in Addis Ababa disclosed that Germany is offering further support for three new humanitarian projects in Ethiopia amounting to US$3.44 million. Thomas Terstegen, the Charge d’Affaires at the German Embassy said “We’re actively…
IGAD to Legalize Regional Fisheries, Aquaculture Strategy
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) February 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is set to validate the Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Strategy (2016-2020) during a meeting scheduled for March 1st to 2nd 2016 in Addis Ababa. The five-year strategy will help identify the challenges on the fish…
Reception Marking the Official Launching of Ethiopia’s Bid to a Non-Permanent Seat
Mogadishu (HAN) February 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Statement by H.E. Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the FDRE at the Reception Marking the Official Launching of Ethiopia’s Bid to a Non-Permanent Seat of the UNSC 2017-2018 (29 February 2015) =============================== Ambassador Smail Chergui, Commissioner for Peace and Security…
