Month: March 2014
- Africa
Muktar Kedir elected as President of Oromia regional state
Mahlet Fasil The 10th Plenary Session of the Council of the Oromia Regional State elected Muktar Kedir as President of the Oromia Regional State. The two day session of the council was held at Adama Aba Gada Hall, 100 km South of Addis Ababa. Muktar Kedir is serving as the Civil Service Cluster Coordinator with the rank of deputy Prime…
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Tanzania to dispatch peacekeeping troops in South Sudan
Tanzania’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Bernard Membe said on Thursday March 27 that Tanzania was keen and ready to send Tanzania People’s Defense Force (TPDF) troops to South Sudan to promote peace and stability and support peace- building efforts at the behest of the United Nations. He told journalists that the impressive performance and dedication shown last…
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EU parliamentary delegation meet Foreign Minister Dr Tedros
Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Dr Tedros Adhanom met with with an EU parliamentary delegation led by Mr. Arnaud Danjean, Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Security and Defense on Wednesday March 26, the ministry said. Briefing the delegation on a wide range of regional issues, Dr. Tedros said he appreciated the EU’s…
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Egypt and the Nile: at a crossroad
For far too long, Egypt has been playing nasty against the entire riparian states of the Nile basin. But the Nile water politics have changed since the last three years following the collapse of Hosni Mubarak’s regime and Ethiopia’s unilateral decision to build Africa’s largest dam on the Nile. Now Egypt is standing at a crossroad; making the right decision…
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Ethiopia gets world class eye care center
Center inaugurated by President Mulatu The public private partnership between the Ministry of Health of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Overseas Infrastructure Alliance (OIA) has borne fruit in the form of OIA India Eye Care Centre in the metropolis. “Ethiopia, the ancient ancestral land of human kind and civilization, a political and diplomatic hub for Africa, deserves to…
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World’s poorest have least access to safe water: UNICEF
Almost four years after the world met the global target set in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for safe drinking water, and after the UN General Assembly declared that water was a human right, over three-quarters of a billion people, most of them poor, still do not have this basic necessity, UNICEF said to commemorate World Water Day. Estimates from…
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Chinese train manufacturer signs deal with Ethiopia
The Chinese train manufacturer, CNR Corporation Limited, has signed an agreement with the Ethiopian government to provide 41 engines for use on the Addis Ababa light railway now under construction, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The engines will be custom-made for use in Addis Ababa. “They will be able to travel at a maximum of 70 kilometers per hour…
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Business between UAE and Ethiopia booming
Mahlet Fasil Trade relationship between Ethiopia and countries within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has shown huge progress over the last ten years. This was mentioned during business to business meeting between visiting officials and businesses from the UAE and their Ethiopian counterparts held at the Sheraton Addis Hotel yesterday. According to a document by the UAE’s trade mission, Ethiopia’s…
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Our exclusive on AU-EU relations with Gary Quince
In December 2007, at the second EU-Africa summit held in Lisbon, Portugal, leaders of the two continents adopted the ‘Joint EU-Africa strategy.’ Based on that the two continents have agreed to set out shared objectives and cooperation in eight different areas: peace and security; democratic governance and human rights; energy; trade, regional integration and infrastructure; millennium development goals; climate change;…
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