Day: April 14, 2015
- Africa
IOM begins evacuation flights from Yemen; Ethiopians among evacuees
On Sunday 12th April, IOM organized its first charter flight to evacuate 141 third country nationals (TCNs) from Sana’a, Yemen. “The operation was a success and paves the way for continuing the evacuations of more than 16,000 third country nationals who are stranded in Yemen”, IOM said, adding it has received requests from 38 countries to evacuate their nationals out…
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Sweden shares experience in road safety to Ethiopia
The National Road Transport Safety Council (NRTSC) of Ethiopia in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy in Addis Abeba has organized a full day workshop today aimed at finding ways of improving road safety in Ethiopia. Discussions on the issues of traffic wellbeing were carried out among various stakeholders gathered at the workshop held at Ghion Hotel. Ethiopia’s record in…
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Does Putin want to derail the Iranian nuclear negotiations?
Mark N. Katz, Special to Addis Standard Putin’s lifting of the Russian ban on transferring S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran raises important questions about Moscow’s expectations and even motivations concerning the achievement of a nuclear accord between Tehran and the P5 +1 (America, Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia). In 2007, Moscow and Tehran signed a…
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