Saturday, January 17, 2015
Ethiopian Airlines posts record 3.15 billion birr profit
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Group made a record high profit of 3.15 billion birr in the 2013-2014 fiscal year that ended in June 2014.The net profit is the highest the airline made in its 69 year history and surpassed the net profit it bagged last year by 53 percent. Last fiscal year the airline made a net profit of 2.3 billion birr. According to information obtained from the airline, the national flag carrier generated 46.5 billion birr operating revenue, up by 21 percent. The airline transported six million passengers and 187,000 tons of cargo in the budget year, a surge of 13 and seven percent respectively. In the 2013-2014 fiscal year the airline phased in 13 new jetliners and opened nine new destinations.
The official attributed the remarkable performance of the airline to the implementation of a right business strategy stipulated in the Vision 2025, the airlines 15 growth plan, and the hard work of the management and employees of the airline. “It was a very successful year for the airline,” the official said.
Read more: The Reporter
ግለሰቡ በኢቦላ ቫይረስ አለመሞቱ በድጋሚ በመረጋገጡ አስከሬኑ ለቤተሰቦቹ መሰጠቱ ተገለጸ
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በግል የሥራ ጉዳይ ወደ ሴራሊዮን አቅንቶ የነበረዉና ወደ ሀገሩ ከተመለሰ ወዲህ ጠንካራ ክትትል ሲደረግበት የቆየዉ ግለሰብ ህይወቱ ያለፈዉ በኢቦላ ቫይረስ አለመሆኑ በመረጋገጡ አስከሬኑ ለቤተሰቦቹ መሰጠቱን የጤና ጥበቃ ሚኒስቴር አስታወቀ፡፡
በሚኒስቴሩ የኢቦላ መከላከል ግብረ ሀይል አባላት የሆኑት ባለሙያዎች በሰጡት መግለጫ እንዳስታወቁት ባለፈዉ ረቡእ ንጋት ላይ ህይወቱ በጭንቅላት ወባ እንዳለፈ ኢትዮጵያ ዉስጥ ባለ የምርመራ ላብራቶሪ ተረጋግጧል፡፡ ለኢቦላም በሃገር ዉስጥ በተደረገዉ ምርመራ ከኢቦላ ነፃ እንደሆነ ቢራገጥም ግለሰቡ የመጣዉ በኢቦለ ከተጠቁት አገሮች አንዷ ከሆነችዉ ሴራሊዮን በመሆኑ ለድጋሚ የማረጋገጫ ምርመራ የደም ናሙናዉ ወደ ደቡብ አፍሪካ ተልኮ በኢቦላ ቫይረስ የተጠቃ አለመሆኑ ተረጋግጧል፡፡
በኢትዮጵያ የህብረተሰብ ጤና ኤንስቲትዩት ምክትል ዋና ዳይሬክተር የሆኑት ዶ/ር ዳዲ ጂማ እና በፌዴራል ጤና ጥበቃ ሚኒስቴር የሚኒስትሩ አማካሪ የሆኑት ዶ/ር መርዓዊ አራጋዊ በጋራ በሰጡት መግለጫ ኢትዮጵያ ኢቦላን ለመከላከል ዘርፈ ብዙ ተግባራት እያከናወነች ሲሆን በተለይ የቫይረሱን ምንነት ለማረጋገጥ ያቋቋመችዉ ላብራቶሪ እና የባለሙያዎቹን ብቃት በግለሰቡ ላይ በተደረገዉ ምርመራ ማረጋገጥ መቻሉ እንደ ጠንካራ ጎን እንደሚወሰድ ተናግረዋል፡፡
Friday, January 16, 2015
Ethiopian Airlines Released a new two days sale Jan 23 and 24, 2015
Promotional Two Days Special Sale .
Sales Date: 23rd and 24th January only
Travel Date: JAN24-31/FEB/MAR
Fare starts from $970 including tax. ( See the table below for detail)
Ethiopian Epiphany in North America will be celebrated in Los Angeles
በ 2 ሺህ 7 ዓ.ም. ለ 16ኛ ጊዜ በሎስ አንጀለስ ከተማ የሚከበረው
የጌታችን የኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ በዓል ጥምቀት መታሰቢያThe 16th annual celebration of our Lord Jesus Christ’s baptism in Los Angeles, CA
January 17 - 18, 2015ቦታ:Location : 1000 Elysian Park Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (@Dodgers Stadium)
Ethiopian Epiphany
Ethiopian Epiphany in North America will be celebrated in Los Angeles
የጌታችን የኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ በዓል ጥምቀት መታሰቢያThe 16th annual celebration of our Lord Jesus Christ’s baptism in Los Angeles, CA
January 17 - 18, 2015ቦታ:Location : 1000 Elysian Park Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (@Dodgers Stadium)
Ethiopian Epiphany
Ethiopian Epiphany in North America will be celebrated in Los Angeles
Addis Ababa - Tokyo nonstop by Ethiopian Airlines
“It is obvious that these guys not just see opportunities but take them. Being the first on the route will give them pole position in uplifting traffic from Japan not just to Addis but into their entire African network. And as you never fail to point out, that network is the widest any airline has. Star Alliance must be proud of such a star pupil among their ranks. For us in Kenya, it is again coming late on that lucrative market. We are behind ET across India and Asia, and I wonder what went wrong with us here. Our airline posts massive losses, and ET expands and grows and makes profits? And then your slap this morning about failed corporate communication strategies but true enough, we have lost massive ground over the past year or so,” commented a regular source on how Kenyan aviators feel when they read such success stories.
“Ethiopian is the one to watch,” wrote another source when tossing ideas around earlier today after also reading that ET was to launch flights to Goma/Eastern Congo via Entebbe.
In a related development, Ethiopian has also confirmed that they have agreed on an expanded codeshare agreement with Star Alliance partner Air India, which will benefit both airlines with added destinations in India and across Africa.
Star Alliance counts three members in Africa - Ethiopian, Egypt Air, and South African - which in terms of fleet and passengers carried, constitute the three largest airlines. Skyteam comes in at a distant second, with Kenya Airways being the only alliance member in Africa, while OneWorld has not a single member on the African continent, though is active with flights to Africa by such members as Qatar Airways and to a much lesser extent British Airways.
First airline in Africa to own and operate the B787 Dreamliner Full Flight Simulator
Continuing with its aviation technology leadership in Africa, Ethiopian, the largest and most profitable airline of the continent, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the first ever B-787 Dreamliner full flight simulator in Africa. The installation and build-up of the full flight simulator is in progress at Ethiopian's main hub in Addis Abab,a and the first pilot training in the B-787 flight simulator will start in March, 2015.
Ethiopian was the first airline in the world outside Japan to receive and operate the B- 787 Dreamliner in August 2012. Currently, the airline is the largest operator of the B-787 in Africa. With the installation of the B-787 flight simulator, Ethiopian will be the first in Africa to give full flight simulator training for pilots on the B-787 aircraft.
CEO of Ethiopian Airlines Group, Mr. Tewolde Gebremariam, said “We are continually investing in developing our training capability. With installation of the B-787 Flight Simulator, we will be fully self-sufficient in providing in-house training for our pilots on the B-787 aircraft, which has become our core fleet on our mid and long range routes.
Over the last 4 years, we have invested $ 80 million in expanding both the scope and scale of our Academy. In line with our 15 years strategic roadmap Vision 2025, we will continue to invest heavily on our Academy with the objective of increasing its annual in-take capacity to from currently 1,000 trainees to about 4,000 by 2025.”
Ethiopian already provides full flight simulator training for pilots on the Q-400, the B737, the B757 and the B767.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Breaking News: British MPs to visit Ethiopia in bid to secure release of Andy Tsege
Mr Tsege, 59, a leading critic of the Ethiopian government who came to Britain as a political refugee more than 30 years ago, has been held in solitary confinement for the past six months.
He vanished during a stopover in Yemen last June, during a trip from Dubai to Eritrea, in what campaigners say was a politically motivated kidnapping. Weeks later it emerged he had been imprisoned in Ethiopia.
His precise whereabouts remain unknown.
The Briton, who is the secretary-general of a banned Ethiopian opposition movement, is facing a death sentence imposed at a trial held in his absence in 2009.
The announcement of the visit by British Parliamentarians, yesterday, is in stark contrast to the efforts of Prime Minister David Cameron, whose response to desperate pleas for help from Mr Tsege’s family last year was to write a letter to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister.
Jeremy Corbyn, vice-chair, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights, and Mr Tsege’s constituency MP, will lead the delegation. “He is a British citizen so there is no reason on earth why the British government should not take a very robust view on this,” he said. His constituent is “a British national in prison with no understandable, comprehensible or acceptable legal process that’s put him there.”
And Clive Stafford-Smith, director, Reprieve, who will accompany the MPs to Ethiopia, said: “I think Mr Cameron doesn’t understand how serious this is. I think that Andy is going to be seen, as the years go by, as Ethiopia’s Nelson Mandela.”
Campaigners fear that Mr Tsege is being tortured and concern is mounting for his wellbeing. His sister Bezuaybhu said: “He’s in his cell for 24 hours a day, with an electric light, he’s having no exercise, he’s not having contact with anybody – so if this is not torture what is it?” Her brother has been “kidnapped, detained illegally” and should be brought back to Britain, she added.
In a statement a Foreign Office spokesperson said: “The Ethiopians have not allowed us further access than the two consular visits on 11 August and 19 December, though we continue in our efforts to secure this.” The British government is “deeply concerned” about his detention and is “pressing the Ethiopian authorities” not to carry out the death penalty, they added.
Six months after his capture, Mr Tsege’s family is finding it increasingly hard to cope. His partner Yemi Hailemariam, mother of their three children, said: “We are very ordinary family caught up in this very extraordinary problem and we just don’t know how to get ourselves out of it.” She added: “It just breaks my heart to think he will be celebrating his 60th birthday in three weeks’ time in prison.”
The only contact she has had in six months was a short telephone call Mr Tsege made last month. “He primarily focused on the kids saying that I should not give them false hope. I told him to keep well and strong. He said he is fine. I asked him where he was, he said he was still there [Ethiopia],” she told The Independent.
“It is very, very, difficult to keep things going; I do have my low points. I try just to block a lot of things out and just keep ploughing away - that's how I'm trying to cope with it,” said Ms Hailemariam.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Ethiopian Embassy, London, claimed that Mr Tsege belongs to a “terrorist organization” seeking to “overthrow the legitimate government of Ethiopia.” He is being “well treated” and “torture is inhumane and has no place in modern Ethiopia,” they added.
Yet a recent report by Amnesty International revealed how political activists have been tortured and killed by the Ethiopian security forces in recent years.
He vanished during a stopover in Yemen last June, during a trip from Dubai to Eritrea, in what campaigners say was a politically motivated kidnapping. Weeks later it emerged he had been imprisoned in Ethiopia.
His precise whereabouts remain unknown.
The Briton, who is the secretary-general of a banned Ethiopian opposition movement, is facing a death sentence imposed at a trial held in his absence in 2009.
The announcement of the visit by British Parliamentarians, yesterday, is in stark contrast to the efforts of Prime Minister David Cameron, whose response to desperate pleas for help from Mr Tsege’s family last year was to write a letter to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister.
Jeremy Corbyn, vice-chair, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights, and Mr Tsege’s constituency MP, will lead the delegation. “He is a British citizen so there is no reason on earth why the British government should not take a very robust view on this,” he said. His constituent is “a British national in prison with no understandable, comprehensible or acceptable legal process that’s put him there.”
And Clive Stafford-Smith, director, Reprieve, who will accompany the MPs to Ethiopia, said: “I think Mr Cameron doesn’t understand how serious this is. I think that Andy is going to be seen, as the years go by, as Ethiopia’s Nelson Mandela.”
Campaigners fear that Mr Tsege is being tortured and concern is mounting for his wellbeing. His sister Bezuaybhu said: “He’s in his cell for 24 hours a day, with an electric light, he’s having no exercise, he’s not having contact with anybody – so if this is not torture what is it?” Her brother has been “kidnapped, detained illegally” and should be brought back to Britain, she added.
In a statement a Foreign Office spokesperson said: “The Ethiopians have not allowed us further access than the two consular visits on 11 August and 19 December, though we continue in our efforts to secure this.” The British government is “deeply concerned” about his detention and is “pressing the Ethiopian authorities” not to carry out the death penalty, they added.
Six months after his capture, Mr Tsege’s family is finding it increasingly hard to cope. His partner Yemi Hailemariam, mother of their three children, said: “We are very ordinary family caught up in this very extraordinary problem and we just don’t know how to get ourselves out of it.” She added: “It just breaks my heart to think he will be celebrating his 60th birthday in three weeks’ time in prison.”
The only contact she has had in six months was a short telephone call Mr Tsege made last month. “He primarily focused on the kids saying that I should not give them false hope. I told him to keep well and strong. He said he is fine. I asked him where he was, he said he was still there [Ethiopia],” she told The Independent.
“It is very, very, difficult to keep things going; I do have my low points. I try just to block a lot of things out and just keep ploughing away - that's how I'm trying to cope with it,” said Ms Hailemariam.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Ethiopian Embassy, London, claimed that Mr Tsege belongs to a “terrorist organization” seeking to “overthrow the legitimate government of Ethiopia.” He is being “well treated” and “torture is inhumane and has no place in modern Ethiopia,” they added.
Yet a recent report by Amnesty International revealed how political activists have been tortured and killed by the Ethiopian security forces in recent years.
5 ቻይናዎች አዲስ አባባ ላይ በሰው መግደል ወንጀል ተጠጥረው በፖሊስ ተያዙ
5 ቻይኖች አዲስ አባባ ላይ በሰው መግደል ወንጀል ተጠጥረው በፖሊስ ተያዙ::
ይችን ይወዳል!ደኑን መመንጠር አልበቃ ብሎ ወደ ሰው ተሻገሩ
According to the Reporter weekly Ethiopian police forces have arrested more than five foreigners at Bole TK building on Jan 5th, 2014. Eye witnesses have described the foreigners in custody as being Chinese.
Police have told the gathered crowd that the foreigners were suspected of homicide. The weekly’s attempt to confirm the story from Addis Ababa police commission was unsuccessful. Police wasn’t willing to give more information on the matter.
ጀርመን ውስጥ አንድ ኤርትራዊ ስደተኛ በዘረኞች ተገደለ
It was 8pm on Monday when Khaled Idris Bahray told his seven flatmates he was popping out to buy some cigarettes from the Netto supermarket about 100 metres away from his flat in a prefab high-rise in the south of Dresden.
The 20-year-old Eritrean said he wouldn’t be long. But a few hours later he still hadn’t returned. “We assumed he’d gone to stay with some other friends nearby,” said his flatmate, Abdulrezak Suleman. “So we weren’t really worried.”
But around 7.40 the following morning, other residents in the six-storey building found his body slumped in the inner courtyard of the housing estate.
According to his flatmates, in reports that the police will not confirm, he was covered in blood, with at least one deep cut visible on his body. Rigor mortis had already set in. “He was lying on his back, and had blood coming out of his nose and mouth, with drops of blood leading towards the door as if he’d tried to get in, but not made it, and drops on the grass,” said Abdulatif, 23, a fellow Eritrean who lives nearby but had spent that night in Bahray’s flat.
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