Category: Ethiopia
Ethiopia addresses the major peace and security threats in Africa
New York (HAN)September 26, 2014, Public Diplomacy and Regional Security news. A high level ministerial meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union was held on Wednesday in New York on the situation in Libya, Somalia and Nigeria. ministerial meeting discussed the AU Commission Chairperson’s report as well as the statement of…
Ethiopia Shared $5 billion counterterrorism Partnerships fund
New York (HAN)September 26, 2014, Public Diplomacy and Regional strateic defense and Security news. President Obama meets with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailermariam Desalegn. Presdent Obama has spent much of the week discussing his counterterrorism plans, including airstrikes in Syria, Somalia and Iraq against the jihadist group known as the Islamic State and Islamic…
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…
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…
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…
Ethiopia: The European Union started to provide direct budget support
Addis Ababa (HAN) September 20, 2014 – Public diplomacy and National financial security news. By Lorenzo Piccio. Buoyed by solid economic growth, Ethiopia has recorded marked development progress over the past two decades. The East African country has reduced child mortality by two-thirds since 1990 — achieving the fourth Millennium Development Goal. Called an MDG “success story”…
Ethiopia: The aviation industry is driving Africa’s growth
Toronto (HAN) September 18, 2014 – Public diplomacy and Regional aviation security news. According to Geeska Afrika Online reporter in Toronto, Atto Tewelde Gebre-Mariam, President and CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, presented an strategic statement which he elaborated that the current aviation industry is the main driving Africa’s growth and integration. In his key statement address…
