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  • This is how terrible Europe’s migration crisis has become

    This is how terrible Europe’s migration crisis has become

    Djibouti (HAN) May 9,2015 Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian News By: Hanna Kozlowska. The passenger was female, her suitcase was fuchsia, and the eight-year-old Ivory Coast boy who Spanish authorities found curled up inside is now the latest symbol of Europe’s rapidly worsening migration crisis.  The boy was discovered this week in an x-ray scan at a border…

  • Ethiopia: Climate Vulnerable Forum

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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’

    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…

  • John Kerry's message to the Somali people

    John Kerry's message to the Somali people

    Mogadishu (HAN) May 5,2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Somalia on Tuesday — the first U.S. secretary of state ever to travel to the country riven by decades of war and grappling with an Islamist insurgency. Kerry was greeted upon arrival in Mogadishu by Somalia’s President,…

  • Somalia's Livestock Export Largely To Gulf States Has Hit A Record High.

    Somalia's Livestock Export Largely To Gulf States Has Hit A Record High.

    Mogadishu (HAN) May 5,2015. Regional IMPORTS/EXPORT News. Export data collected by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia indicates the country exported 4.6 million goats and sheep last year. And that does not include the camel exports. Somalia’s ministry of livestock says the recent animal exports is the highest it’s been in twenty years…

  • Who Owns The Nile?

    Who Owns The Nile?

    Djibouti (HAN) May 5,2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. By:Ludger Schadomsky Who owns the Nile? After years of conflict about control over the Nile, Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have now apparently chosen the path of co-operation over open dispute. Politicians are demonstrating unity, but observers warn that not all differences have been resolved. Many…

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