Category: Markets

  • Ethiopia: Australian milk Market to Access High Quality Dairy Products

    Ethiopia: Australian milk Market to Access High Quality Dairy Products

    Addis Ababa (HAN) October 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional food Security Initiatives News. By: ELLEN READ Stuff Writer. Fonterra has launched new Anchor consumer brands in Australia and Ethiopia as it works towards its goal of expanding the value-add side of its business. For Australia, a new range of creams (pure, thickened, and…

  • Eritrea: New Airline Coming to Asamara

    Eritrea: New Airline Coming to Asamara

    Asmara (HAN) October 26, 2015 –Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and stability Initiatives News. Fly Dubai will start regular flights between Asmara and Dubai as of October 25th this month. In a speech delivered during the official inauguration of Fly Dubai, Mr. Paulos Kahsai, the Director General of the Eritrean Civil Aviation Authority in the Ministry of…

  • Indian Textile Factory Begins Operations with $45m Investment

    Indian Textile Factory Begins Operations with $45m Investment

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) October 26, 2015 –Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and stability Initiatives News. By: DAWIT ENDESHAW Kanoria Africa Textile Plc, an Indian owned denim fabric manufacturer, started production following inauguration by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Saturday, October 24, 2015. The company, located on 155,000sqm plot of land at Keta Industrial Zone in Bishoftu…

  • Ethiopia: India Hosts Biggest Africa summit. Plays Catchup With China

    Ethiopia: India Hosts Biggest Africa summit. Plays Catchup With China

    NEW DELHI (HAN) October 26, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and stability Initiatives News. India hosts its biggest-ever Africa summit this week as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to challenge China’s dominance on a continent that is blessed with vast natural resources and has the world’s fastest-growing population.  New Delhi wants to project its…

  • Somalia: Saudi Arabia "the Right Way of Hiring Somali Workers"

    Somalia: Saudi Arabia "the Right Way of Hiring Somali Workers"

    Mogadishu (HAN) October 25, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and stability Initiatives News. Geeska Afrika sources said “The Saudi Government took the decision to reduce Asian domestic workers …. Can recruit domestic workers using easier visa processing in Somalia and Egypt. The Ministry of Labor in Saudi Arabia, recently announced the opening of recruiting…

  • Ethiopia: UK-Ethiopia Trade and Investment Forum 2015

    Ethiopia: UK-Ethiopia Trade and Investment Forum 2015

    London (HAN) October 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and stability Initiatives News.  Huge pleasure to see so many of you here for the UK-Ethiopia Trade and Investment Forum 2015. I’d particularly like to welcome my colleague and friend, His Excellency the Ethiopian Foreign Minister Dr Tedros Adhanom, to his second home in London.…

  • Eritrea: Sunridge Gold Boss Hails key Approvals in Eritrea

    Eritrea: Sunridge Gold Boss Hails key Approvals in Eritrea

     London (HAN) October 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and stability Initiatives News.  Michael Hopley, chief executive of Sunridge Gold Corp (CVE:SGC), says he is delighted the firm’s partner has secured three key mining licences in Eritrea for its Asmara project. Asmara Mining (AMSC), a joint venture 60% owned by the Canadian group, has…

  • A New Order beckons for The Middle East & Africa.

    A New Order beckons for The Middle East & Africa.

    NAIROBI (HAN) October 19, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment Initiative News. When leaders and policymakers converge in Dubai next month for the third Africa Global Summit, top on the agenda will be how to sustain growth momentum in the wake of dwindling commodity prices. For about five years, Africa has registered booming growth in…

  • Nairobi seventh in global rental index

    Nairobi seventh in global rental index

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) October 19, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment Initiative News. Nairobi has been placed seventh out of 18 global cities ranked in terms of the growth in rental prices over the 12 months to June this year. It was among the cities reporting sluggish growth in residential rent prices, which is seen as…

  • Ethiopia: The future of Walia?

    Ethiopia: The future of Walia?

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) October 19, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment Initiative News. Heineken Breweries S.C. can no longer use its well promoted beer brand, Waliya, following the verdict of the Lideta Federal High Court on October 11, 2015 which shifted the right to use of the trademark Waliya, to another ongoing brewery project run…

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