Category: Ethiopia
Ethiopia-Djibouti fuel Pipeline Would cut Import Costs and Emissions
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 25, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Construction of a new $1.55-billion, 550-kilometer multiproduct fuel pipeline linking landlocked Ethiopia and coastal Djibouti is set to commence next year. Both countries approved the project, also known as Horn of Africa pipeline (HOAP), in October. Joint-venture developer BRM HOAP Holdings anticipates…
Flow of Financial Assistance to Ethiopia Increasing
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 25, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Better and proper utilization of assistance helping the government of Ethiopia earn more financial support from donors. The financial assistance the nation earned from multilateral donors during the first quarter of this fiscal year has increased by 96.6 percent compared to the…
Ethiopia to Receive $50 Million from Green Climate Fund (GCF)
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. As the COP 21 international climate conference in the French capital Paris inches closer, the issue of financing for developing nations affected disproportionately by global warming is looming larger. The government of Ethiopia, which launched its ambitious five-year economic Growth and Transformation…
Ethiopia: Consolidating Nation's Response to Drought Impacts
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Currently, no other pressing issue than tackling El Nino induced drought in Ethiopia. The drought has resulted shortage of rain in a time of spring when much rain is expected and coming late during the main rainy season. Consequently, this has driven…
Irish Aid Grants Additional Funding for Drought Relief in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Ireland’s Minister for Development, Trade Promotion and North South Co-operation, Seán Sherlock, has announced that the Irish Government will contribute an additional €2 million to the international response to the drought in Ethiopia. This brings Ireland’s total contribution to meeting the urgent…
Ethio-Djibouti Railway Starts Transportation for Drought Relief Supplies
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Ethio-Djibouti railway, although it has yet to be completed, has begun operations to help transport emergency food supplies for people in drought affected areas. Following the arrival in Djibouti of the first supplies of the additional wheat purchased by the Government,…
Ethiopian Diaspora Engagement Policy
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Diaspora Engagement Affairs Office of Foreign Affairs Director General, Teferi Melese, briefed the Sierra Leone Office of Diaspora Affairs Director, Kallay Musa Conteh on Ethiopian Diaspora Policy on Friday (November 20). Ato Teferi said that the Government had initiated its Diaspora engagement…
Ethiopia: First All Women Functioned Flights in Africa
Addis Ababa (HAN) November 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Aviation Security News. Ethiopia Airlines changed aviation tradition to empower African women. Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s most profitable airline has scored another first, an all-female crew. The history making flight deck crew operated the flight from the capital, Addis Ababa to Bangkok, Thailand. Ethiopian Airlines called…
Ethiopia: Sweden Contributes 16 million USD for Food aid to People Affected by the Drought
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 22, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability News. Sweden has made a decision to contribute 140 million SEK (16 million USD) for food aid to people affected by the severe and ongoing drought in Ethiopia. The contribution is made through a grant to the World Food Program (WFP). Through this contribution…
Ethiopia: Awarded the National Geographic Traveler Award of 2015
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 22, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability News. The Russian branch of the National Geographic Traveler magazine organized “the 5th National Geographic Traveler Awards-Top travel destinations of 2015 at a ceremony held in Moscow on November 18/2015. Readers and Viewers of this Journal were requested to vote on line for…
