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Eritrean Leader Warns Foreign Powers Over S. Sudan Conflict
JUBA (HAN) April 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. – The Eritrean president, Isaias Efwerki has warned South Sudanese leaders to be cautious about foreign interventions in its ongoing conflict, claiming some unnamed countries had direct interests in the world’s youngest nation. At a meeting with the South Sudanese officials in Eritrea over the…
Making Ethiopia a Global Manufacturing Hub
LONDON (HAN) April 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. Ethiopia is one of Africa’s top performers, yet is one of the markets most closed to foreign money. Zemedeneh Negatu from EY tells the FT’s Katrina Manson why investors are flocking to the country, and whether it is really restrictive to foreigners. Ethiopia: Open…
Ethiopia: Aims to Quadruple Coffee Production in Five Years
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 28, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), in concert with the Ministry of Trade (MoT) has finalised a Coffee Development Strategy that will be used to boost coffee production in the second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II) over the next five years. The…
Ziraat Bank to open branch in Ethiopia
ISTANBUL (HAN) April 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. One of Turkey’s largest state-owned banks, Ziraat Bank, has proposed opening the first foreign-owned bank branch in Ethiopia, the Turkish Economy Minister has said. Nihat Zeybekci said at the Turkey- Ethiopia Business Forum in Ankara on Monday Turkish lenderZiraat Bank was awaiting a response from Ethiopia…
Sudan’s Bashir reelected with 94.5% of vote
Khartoum (HAN) April 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir extended his quarter-century in power with a landslide 94.5 percent victory in presidential elections, organizers announced on Monday. The 71-year-old looks set to tighten his grip on the unstable oil producer, facing a divided and diminished opposition that mostly boycotted…
Mediterranean migrants: No one makes this journey just to pick up benefits
Djibouti (HAN) April 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. By: Gary Younge While travelling up the US-Mexican border several years ago, I met an anti-immigration campaigner in Columbus, New Mexico who went by the name of Quasimodo and who had carried a .38 pistol around with him ever since he went into an abandoned…
Ethiopia predicts record $1.5bn in 2015
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. Foreign direct investment into Ethiopia will reach a record $1.5bn this year, on the back of successful efforts by the fast-growing and populous African country to attract overseas manufacturing companies. Only seven years ago, the country with a population of 94m drew only…
London Marathon 2015: Tigist Tufa victorious in the women's race.
London (HAN) April 26, 2015 –Gesska Sports.Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s London Marathon, with Ethiopia’s Tigist Tufa victorious in the women’s race. Kipchoge, the 5,000m world champion in 2003, finished five seconds in front of another Kenyan athlete, Wilson Kipsang. Britain’s Paula Radcliffe, the women’s record holder, finished the racein her last competitive London…
This Week In Pictures 20-25 April 2015
Africa (HAN) April 26, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional News. Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week. 20-25 April 2015 HAN & Geeska Afrika Online (1985-2015), the oldest free independent Free Press in the region, brings together top journalists from across the Horn of Africa. Including…
Ethiopia: Global craving For Teff
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 25, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. Six days a week, an Ethiopian Airlines flight departs for Washington, D.C., with a fresh batch of 3,000 injera on board. This pancake-shaped pale spongy bread is a centuries-old Ethiopian staple made from teff, an indigenous tiny grain now making a global name…
