Category: Markets
Ethiopia: Tourism Supporting Ethiopia’s Economy
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 27, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Currently, conference on tourism is coming into the spotlight around the globe. It’s regarded as essential part of tourism that brings significant return. All countries of the world are making an effort to develop a conference industry and Ethiopia is no exception.…
Ethiopia: UN Agency Sounds Alarm Over Africa’s Growing Foreign Debt
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 27, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Africa is faced with increasing debt repayments especially those countries that have borrowed in foreign markets, the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) warned Tuesday ahead of the 26th African Union (AU) summit that opens later this week in Ethiopia. At…
Switzerland: A Red Sea Foundation Launched to Drive Growth in Regional Trade
DAVOS (HAN) January 26, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. A non-profit policy think tank, the Red Sea Foundation, is being set up to develop a trade facilitation framework for the Red Sea region. According to Fahd Al Rasheed, CEO of King Abdullah Economic City, a port on the Red Sea which began operations…
Uganda: Cuts Economic Growth Projection, Citing Costly Credit
KAMPALA (HAN) January 5, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Uganda’s finance ministry has lowered the country’s 2015/2016 (July-June) economic growth forecast to 5 per cent from a previous projection of 5.8 per cent, citing the impact of higher lending rates. In a budget policy paper seen by Reuters on Tuesday, the ministry also…
Ethiopian Airlines Plane Grounded in Dakar
Dakar (HAN) December 8, 2015– Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. An aircraft belonging to the Ethiopian airlines is grounded at the Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Senegal after it escaped an accident. Twice, the aircraft taxied and took off successfully, but subsequently made two emergency landings at the airport. Media reports quoted the…
Ethiopia: First All Women Functioned Flights in Africa
Addis Ababa (HAN) November 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Aviation Security News. Ethiopia Airlines changed aviation tradition to empower African women. Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s most profitable airline has scored another first, an all-female crew. The history making flight deck crew operated the flight from the capital, Addis Ababa to Bangkok, Thailand. Ethiopian Airlines called…
Ethiopia: Turkey’s Developing Relationship With Africa
Istanbul (HAN) September 3, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. By Mohammed Sanusi Adams (balkanalysis). The forays of developed Western countries into Africa, whether as slave merchants, colonizers or investors have constituted a ubiquitous trend for the past three centuries. Nonetheless, the dominant trend now, and particularly for the past decade or so,…
Somalia: Turkey's Africa Strategy
Istanbul (HAN) November 22, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional Foreign Trade Developed Strategy and Stable Investment Initiative Issues. Geeska Afrika Online Editor’s Historical Archives: almost thirty years since the establishment of Geeska Afrika Onlne (1985-2015) and insights about the Turkey’s developing strategic relationship with the Horn of Africa, we are providing new insights into the current…
Report Implicates Kenyan Army in Somalia's Illicit Sugar Trade
NAIROBI (HAN) November 11, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. A report has implicated the Kenya Defence Forces in the illicit sugar trade in Somalia. The report by Journalists for Justice (JFJ), which conducted the study on the conduct of KDF, named the Kenya military, the Jubaland administration of Ahmed Madobe and Al-Shabaab as beneficiaries of shares…
Ethiopian Airlines' First A350 XWB Takes Shape
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 11, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. The first Airbus A350-900 intended for use by Ethiopian Airlines is taking shape on the Final Assembly Line in Toulouse, France. Ethiopian Airlines will be the first African airline to operate the A350 XWB when it takes delivery of the aircraft next year. Ethiopian Airlines…
