Category: Ethiopia
The 22nd Ethiopia-Djibouti Joint Border Meeting is Held
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) December 1, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The 22nd Ethiopia-Djibouti Joint Border Meeting was held on Thursday and Friday last week (November 26-27) in Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia. Mr. Ibrahim Osman, Mayor of the Dire-Dawa City Administration extended a warm welcome to the Djiboutian delegation and emphasized the readiness of the Ethiopian…
Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn’s Interview with the Press
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) December 1, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Reporter Newspaper interviewed Prime Minster Hailemariam Dessalegn on November 26 covering a wide range of topics. In an hour and a half the Prime Minster addressed the current drought situation, the problems of good governance problems and the economy and other areas.…
Sudan Government and SPLM-N Trade Accusations
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) December 1, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Sudan Government and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N) have accused each other for responsibility of the failure of the tenth round of their talks, held in Addis Ababa last week. The two sides met (November 19-23) under the auspices of…
Korean Economic Delegation to Visit Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) December 1, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The South Korean Government announced on Sunday (November 29) that an economic delegation will visit Ethiopia “to help lay the basis for more trade and industrial cooperation.” The Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said the 37-person delegation, made up of…
Pope to end Africa trip with Mosque Visit in Besieged Enclave
Bangui (HAN) November 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Pope Francis, ending a three-nation African tour, on Monday visits a mosque in a besieged Muslim enclave in Central African Republic’s capital in an effort to bridge the religious divide in a nation racked by three years of violence. Healing rifts between…
Ethiopia: Letter from Prison, The CNN award Journalist Woubshet Taye
New York (HAN) November 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Democracy is the only solution. Conflating terrorism and journalism in Ethiopia. I miss my son, Justice very much. But I can’t see him as often as I would like to because I am now transferred to Ziway which is 60 miles from…
Ethiopia: Fahmy Foundation, "Why Police Arrested Woubshet?"
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security Initiatives News. Police arrested Woubshet, deputy editor of the independent weekly Awramba Times, after raiding his home in the capital, Addis Ababa, and confiscating documents, cameras, CDs, and selected copies of the newspaper, according to local journalists. The outlet’s top editor, CPJ International…
Experts Suggest Ethiopia be Careful when Joining Middle Class Group
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 28, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Ethiopian official for United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) suggested that Ethiopia needs to be careful as it becomes a middle-income economy. Launching the UNCTAD 2015 edition of the report on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) titled “Transforming Rural Economies”…
University Launches Research Project Aiming to Recycle waste oil
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 28, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Addis Ababa University Institute of Technology (AAiT) has initiated a study project which aims to introduce the recycling of used motor oil to safeguard human lives as well as the environment. Following signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Total…
Ethiopia: Japan Helps to Revamp Truck Load Controlling System
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 28, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) is set to renovate the existing truck axle load controlling system with a modern Japanese-made technology in which 14 controlling stations will become more automated in a few months’ time. Shinichi Kitaoka, President of Japan International Cooperation…
