Ethiopian Secures Loan Financing for Four Boeing 777-200 LR Freighters Deliveries BY ZERYHUN KASSA
Ethiopian Airlines has mandated Natixis as PDP Facility Lead Arranger and Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (PTA Bank) as PDP Facility Co-Arranger to provide pre-delivery payment loan financing for its batch of four new Boeing 777-200 LR Freighter aircraft, to be delivered between autumn 2014 and winter 2015. Ethiopian Airlines, Natixis and […]
Read More →Ethiopia: Chamber Organizes Public Private Consultative Forum On Company Formation Process in Ethiopia
Addis Standard (Addis Ababa) The Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations (ECCSA) has organized a Public Private Consultative Forum was held at the Hilton Hotel Dec. 26th under the theme “Company Formation Process in Ethiopia: Challenges and Recommendations.” The Forum deliberated on the regulatory and administrative challenges encountering company formation procedures (particularly share companies) and measures […]
Read More →South Sudan: IGAD Leaders in Nairobi for South Sudan Talks
Photo: Hailemichael Gebrekrstos/UN Nairobi — Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) member states were on Friday morning expected to meet for an extraordinary session to discuss the situation in South Sudan and Somalia. Heads of State from Djibouti, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia were to converge at State House Nairobi at 11am to discuss the security […]
Read More →Kenyatta, Desalegn in South Sudan for Talks
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn arrived in Juba Thursday (December 26th) for talks with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir aimed at resolving escalating instability in the country, AFP reported. The leaders posed for photographs before going into closed door talks. The visit comes amid ongoing efforts by regional powers to […]
Read More →East Africa: Israel Sends Migrants to New “Open” Detention Centres
Tel Aviv — Hundreds of African migrants and human rights activists marched through the streets of Tel Aviv on 21 December to protest the Israeli government’s policy of detaining irregular migrants, the majority of them asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan. The protest came less than a week after a demonstration in Jerusalem by about […]
Read More →Fikreselassie Wegderes memories and the tragic death of Haileslasie I – ESAT News Analysis
Read More →A World of Skins Add Beauty to the Joy of ExDialer Pro
I was banging my head against the wall the other day because the dialer on my aging Motorola Photon 4G stopped working. Normally what I’d do — and recommend doing — is upgrade the OS to a later version while at the same time doing a hard reset on the device. However, you need an unlocked bootloader to do that, and Motorola has locked the bootloader on that model.
Read More →All Things Appy: 5 Best Apps to Make the Most of Apple Sensors
Your Apple device is full of sensors, including a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, an accelerometer, a magnetometer and a gyroscopic sensor. Also included in these devices are radios, which aren’t strictly sensors but which include the GPS for location services. In this week’s All Things Appy, we take a look at the five best free apps for playing with sensors and sensor-like radios.
Read More →Attack on presidential palace thwarted in Bangui
The Associated PressA medical worker changes the bandages of a young man who survived a machete attack, at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in a camp for the displaced in the Boy Rabe neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 200,000 […]
Read More →Turnpike reopens after crashes in Lancaster County injure at least 9 people; about 35 vehicles involved
Numerous accidents in Lancaster County By LARRY ALEXANDER and RYAN MELLON Staff lalexander@lnpnews.com; rmellon@lnpnews.com Whether heading to work or hitting the after-Christmas sales, Lancaster County residents were in for a surprise during Thursday morning’s commute: Snow-coated roads that sent vehicles careening. Between 7:45 and 11 a.m., as 1 to 2 inches of snow coated the […]
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