Category: Ethiopia
How Israel have failed Ethiopian community
Tel Aviv (HAN) May 18,2015. Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian, Security News. Israel did not do enough for Ethiopians making their way to Israel, President Reuven Rivlin said Sunday, admitting years of failings as the Ethiopian-Israeli community held a memorial for those who died while trying to reach the Jewish state. The official memorial ceremony, also…
Ethiopia: Geremew and Daska victorious
Addis Ababa (HAN) May 18,2015. Geeska Sports. Kenya’s stranglehold over the TCS World 10K was broken in absorbing fashion here on Sunday as Ethiopia’s Mosinet Geremew and Mamitu Daska emerged victorious. The previous five men’s and three women’s winners had all come from Kenya but there was to be no encore. Geremew finished in a…
Ethiopia Signed a Grant Agreement of €1.1 million
Adis Ababa (HAN) May 14,2015. Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian, Security News. Ethiopia signed a grant agreement of €1.1 million with COMESA to finance its regional integration programmes. The funds were secured through a contribution agreement between the European Union and COMESA and disbursed under the Regional Integration Support Mechanism (RISM) COMESA Adjustment Facility (CAF) The…
Ethiopia: Haile Gebrselassie retires
London (HAN) May 10, 2015 – Public diplomacy and National Sports News. Haile Gebrselassie, considered one of athletics’ greatest distance runners, said on Sunday he was retiring from competitive running but the Ethiopian’s long-time manager said it was not the end of Gebrselassie’s career. “No, he’s not retiring; he will be in Glasgow in October,”…
Ethiopia: Climate Vulnerable Forum
Addis Ababa (HAN) May 9,2015 Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian, Investment News. Twelve recommendations to improve the regional response to climate change have been agreed to following a meeting for the African region at Addis Ababa on 7-8 May, 2015. The meeting, gathering twelve African countries, was part of a series of Climate Vulnerable Forum workshops currently…
Sheikh Al-Amoudi launched an 8 billion birr expansion projects
Addis Ababa (HAN) May 9,2015 Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian, Investment News. MIDROC Ethiopia Technology Group, an umbrella group of 21 companies owned and chaired by Global business magnet and prominent investor in Ethiopia Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi launched an 8 billion birr expansion projects in gold and agro-processing sectors. In addition to the ongoing projects,…
Ethiopian insurers to set up local reinsurance company
Addis Ababa (HAN) May 9,2015 Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian, Investment News. Ethiopian insurance providers allocated an aggregate investment capital of 660 million birr to establish an Ethiopian-owned reinsurance company. The insurers, through their association, also hired a local consultancy firm that is tasked to conduct the organizational setup and other studies in six months. The…
Ethiopia's long-serving minister brings recipe of success to AfDB
Djibouti (HAN) May 7, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian, Investment News. By: Jenny Lei Ravelo For much of the past two decades, Sufian Ahmed’s attention has been focused on rebuilding Ethiopia’s economy after years of war and famine, eventually helping turn it into one of the fastest-growing in Africa. Of late, he’s been busy…
Healthy Ethiopian Food Coming to the UK
London (HAN) May 6,2015 Regional Investment News. The United Kingdom government has expressed delight at its expanding joint investment with Ethiopia, following the inauguration on Tuesday of a new ‘food factory’ in the East African country. ‘Ahadukes Food Products’ factory is a joint investment between UK-based Vasari Investments Group and Ahadu PLC; and envisages growing…
Teacher suspended for telling student to ‘go back to Ethiopia’
Tel Aviv (HAN) May 6,2015 Public Diplomacy,Regional Humanitarian Security News College Peer Tafnit Holon suspended a lecturer Tuesday after a video surfaced of the teacher arguing with Ethiopian students, telling them, “You forget where you came from. Go back to Ethiopia.” The argument began Monday during a class discussion on the violent Rabin Square protest that took place in…
