Year: 2013
- Africa
EU provides €124 million to the AU to support its mission in Somalia
The European Union (EU) signed an agreement with the African Union (AU) Commission providing €124 million to the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) for the period of June to December 2013. The latest funding brings the overall EU contribution to AMISOM to approximately €600 million since March 2007. The EU says its contribution will continue to cover the costs of…
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Qatar Airways celebrates new route to Addis Ababa with community initiative
Children receive uniforms and books for back-to-school Qatar Airways celebrated the launch of its new route to Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa by providing school uniforms and books for school-age children participating in the Our Father’s Kitchen program. Our Father’s Kitchen is a feeding program which provides daily meals for approximately 216 underprivileged children in three different neighborhoods of the…
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A musical evening with Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru
The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival at the end of August dedicated a concert to the music of Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru, the Ethiopian born composer acclaimed as “one of Africa’s most important composers ever”. Ran HaCohen (PhD), our Middle East Correspondent, was at the event Famous in Ethiopia, Emahoy, who has spent the last three decades in a small chamber in…
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Military operation in Syria and what then?
If the U.S. decides on a military strike against Syria, it should be limited in scale to avoid triggering a broader regional conflict. It is also necessary to include any military operation into a broader strategy that would lead to a political solution to the conflict. Wojciech Lorenz The United States is ready to use force in response to a…
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Ethiopia’s developmental statism: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Eyob Balcha, Special to Addis Standard (@eyobbalcha ) The Ethiopian developmental state is getting a comfortable ground in the political economy of the country. It is preached almost every day that it is with a strong and committed political leadership of the ruling party that the current factual success is achieved. But this is happening at the expenses of a…
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It’s more than black and white
During the days America was fixated on the live television broadcast of the Zimmerman trial, over 50 Chicagoans died of shootings; nearly all were black and many of them teenagers. But where is the outrage? Asks our U.S. Correspondent Tomas Mega from Nevada On February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old black American was shot…
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- Africa
Radisson Blu to host the first New Year party
Since the opening of the Radisson Blu hotel in Addis Ababa in January 2012, the hotel has been known to welcome and organize a great number of successful events for its local and international clients. However, the hotel has not organized an event of its own yet and says “this is about to change” tomorrow Sep 10th, as it is…
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A Modest Proposal: break ties with Syria
Mark N. Katz President Obama has announced that he intends to launch a military strike against Syria in response to his strongly held conviction that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons against its people. It is not at all clear, though, when or even if he will receive approval from Congress or from many (indeed, any) other governments for…
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Ethiopian Airlines enjoys fourteen pct profit in revenue
Hadra Ahmed Ethiopian Airlines announced that its operating revenue has increased by 14pc from last year as revenue increased to 38.5 billion br, up from 33.8 billion br a year earlier, despite soaring fuel prices and the grounding of Dreamliner 787s for several months. Its operating profit also rose to 2.7 billion birr ($142.85 million), up from 1 billion br…
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