Ethiopian Airlines is exploring plans to fly to Bulawayo, as Africa’s largest carrier expands its footprint on the local market. Ethiopian International Services managing director, Esayas Woldemariam told journalists on Sunday the carrier had set its eyes on Bulawayo. “We are planning to expand to Bulawayo. We are studying our numbers and because we have...
By Ed Cropley and MacDonald Dzirutwe | JOHANNESBURG/HARARE When President Robert Mugabe scrapped the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009, most of his people thought this meant the end of runaway money-printing and hyperinflation that had rendered the currency worthless. They may have been wrong. Adoption of the U.S. dollar and South African rand eight years ago...
By Enrico Caporale, Worldcrunch ADDIS ABABA — On the flight from Rome to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, flight attendants hand out Chinese-language magazines. And in the city’s Bole International Airport, the only cigarettes available are of the made-in-Chinese variety. Marlboros aren’t an option. Outside the airport, at the first traffic light, my taxi jockeys...
By NEIL CARRIER, The Star While Nairobi’s Eastleigh estate has been misrepresented over the years as a place of pirates and terrorists, most notably in the recent Hollywood film Eye in the Sky, for most Kenyans it is a place heaving with shopping malls all offering bargain goods such as clothes and electronics. It is...
Kurt Hofmann Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 777 freighter. Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airlines is adding four new destinations March 26-28, according to the Addis Ababa-based carrier. Ethiopian Airlines will launch services from Addis Ababa to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe; Antananarivo, Madagascar; and Oslo, as well cargo services to Ahmedabad, India. “Three new [passenger] flights to three new destinations...
By Nizar Manek, Bloomberg The government of Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland may award a concession to DP World Ltd. to develop the port of Bosaso, President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said. Ali traveled to Dubai last week to discuss the concession, he said in an interview March 21 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where...
By Sintayehu Tamirat President, Ismail Omar Guelleh visited Ethiopian Airlines as well as Bole Lemi Industrial Park located at the outskirts of the capital and exports leather products. After visiting the Ethiopian Airlines yesterday, the president praised the exemplary success of the management of the company for building a leading aviation industry in Africa. Flying...
By Abdikadir Askar HARGEISA, A top British official said on Tuesday that Somaliland would not be invited to a donor conference on Somalia in May because it had repeatedly postponed Presidential elections. “There was an opportunity for a new government to come to the conference if the elections had been held in March, as promised,...
Morocco said on Monday that a $10 billion project to build a new industrial and technology hub near the northern city of Tangiers will be financed by Chinese group Haite , BMCE’s Bank of Africa, and the Moroccan government. Morocco and the Chinese government signed an initial memorandum of understanding last year for the 2,000...
NEW YORK, NY, — As part of the “Greenification of the World” campaign, launched by the Irish Tourism Board eight years ago, Africa’s first Ethiopian A350 will join a string of world landmarks in this campaign, including: New York’s World Trade Center, City Hall and Heron Tower in London, Placa de Catalunya and the fountains...