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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…
Somali: World's First Malaria Vaccine Tested & Proven Partially Effective (VIDEO)
Mogadishu (HAN) April 27, 2015 –VIDEO. In Somalia, malaria has long been one of the leading causes of deaths among children under the age of five – so the positive news of a partially effective vaccine could be good news for the struggling country. Mohamed Hirmoge -CCTV
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…
kenya: Ivory hidden In tea Leaf Sacks from Kenya
Nairobi (HAN) April 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. Thailand seized 3 tons of ivory hidden in tea leaf sacks from Kenya in the second-biggest bust in the country’s history, one week after the biggest seizure, customs officials said Monday. The 511 elephant tusks worth $6 million, bound for Laos, were seized upon arrival…
Uganada: Shilling Was Stable Amid Sluggish Trade
KAMPALA (HAN) April 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. The Ugandan shilling was stable on Monday amid sluggish trade and was expected to remain rangebound on the back of local currency liquidity tightness. At 0912 GMT commercial banks quoted the shilling at 2,995/3,005, unchanged from Friday’s close. “Corporate appetite for the greenback is…
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…
