Category: Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Police State Silencing Opponents
Rome (HAN) June 12, 2014 – Opinion By, Paul O’Keeffe is a Doctoral Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome. Detention under spurious charges in Ethiopia is nothing new. With the second highest rate of imprisoned journalists in Africa and arbitrary detention for anyone who openly objects to the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regime’s…
Ethiopia: An Interview With the Governor of National Bank
Addis Ababa (HAN) June 9, 2014. The Geeska Afrika Online forums (IGAD2020 Regional Watch) can meet the movers and shakers of the region, the ones who make the headlines in Africa and the Middle East. Ebizguides, winne- Published last Year, April 3rd, 2003. We revisited Teklewold Atnafu’s interview with Winne to evaluate the current financial…
Ethiopia: Squeezing Banking credit and liquidity from the System
Addis Ababa (HAN) June 9, 2014- Financial and banking sector updates. The Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), Teklewold Atnafu, slammed a study sponsored by the Ethiopian Chamber Commerce and Sectoral Association (ECCSA) which details how the policies and directives issued by the regulatory body is squeezing a much needed banking credit and…
Ethiopia: Reasons Ethiopian Coffee Export Market Declined
Addis Ababa (HAN) June 9, 2014. According to the Ethiopian Trade Ministry, ”Ethiopian coffee exports have declined 50 per cent in the last ten months.” According to Geeska Afrika Online market reporter, Arabica coffee prices are currently ruling at much lower than the cost of production for growers. The rise in the prices of inputs…
Ethiopia: Has the Government suspended Mayor of Addis Ababa?
Khartoum (HAN) June 6, 2014. Ethiopian News Opinion By, MINILIK SALSAWI, Breaking News. Abadula Kuma Mayor of Addis Ababa has suspended from any type of activities, Stripped-off their passport and fall under 24 hours surveillance. the ruling party took such radical measure and start to swallow even his own loyalists following the dispute of Adis…
Ethiopia: A good Diplomatic News with Egypt has started
Djibouti (HAN) June 5, 2014. Egyption minister of electricity and renewable energy Ahmed Shaker flew to Addis Ababa last Sunday to participate in the US-Africa Energy Conference, aimed at developing sustainable energy projects on the continent Egypt’s minister of electricity and renewable energy, Mohamed Shaker, headed to Ethiopia last Sunday to participate in the US-Africa…
Ethiopia: Despite danger, more migrants trying to cross to Europe
Djibouti (HAN) June 5, 2014 — An Australian man has been jailed for nine years after he repeatedly punched an Eritrean migrant to the ground in a violent robbery in a train station alleyway, last October. The Australian attacker, Timothy Williams, from Illawarra, can be seen hitting the refugee so hard in his face that…
Ethiopia: Turkish security court issued an international arrest warrant
Mogadishu (HAN) June 5, 2014 – Ethiopian security police arrested more than twenty people accused of plotting attacks in the country and suspected of having links to Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-shabaab militants, Ethiopian security officials said today. Government spokesman Shimeles Kemal told Geeska Afrika Online security reporter that those detained had been trained by the militants…
Ethiopia: Letter to a beloved daughter Birtukan
Djibouti (HAN) June 3, 2014. Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page. Letter to a beloved daughter of Ethiopia By Abebe Gellaw. Dear my good friend Birtukan Mideksa, First and foremost, I would like to tell you how very proud and honored I feel to see you smile again warmly and heartedly…
Ethiopia: World Bank Approved cash to Develop Potential Geothermal Sites
Djibouti (HAN) June 1, 2014: Ethiopia has a huge wealth of renewable energy including a potential 45,000 MW from Hydro Power, 10,000 MW from geothermal energy in Oromia, Afar and Somali regional states. The Ethiopian heavy investment in renewable energy including wind, solar and hydropower is part of its climate resilient green economy strateg Ethiopian…
