Breaking News! Police responding to ‘high-risk incident’ in Neenah, WI, fears of hostages taken

Police are monitoring a high-risk incident in the city of Neenah, Wisconsin. Local media report an active shooter has barricaded himself inside a shop and taken hostages.

“Neenah PD is monitoring a high risk incident in the 200 Blk of Main St. There has been a report of at least one possible shot fired,” the police said on their Facebook page.
Dean Kaufert, the Neenah Mayor, told FOX11 around 30 shots were fired. He also said there are people in the basement of the Eagle Nation Cycles shop, where the incident is taking place.

ALERT: San Bernardino shooting: Police seek 1-3 suspects, reports of possibly 20 victims

(CNN)The hunt for one to three suspects was taking place near a San Bernardino, California, medical and health center where as many as 20 people were shot Wednesday, authorities said.

SWAT teams and the bomb squad were working to clear the buildings where the shootings took place.

[Latest developments, posted at 4:02 p.m. ET]

• The three suspects are believed to be armed with AK-47-type weapons, a local law enforcement official told CNN.

• Witnesses told police they saw three men with long guns, a law enforcement source told CNN. The source said the suspects got into a black SUV and drove away.

The bomb squad found a suspicious package on the second floor of a building and determined it is "not normal," the source said. They are going to handle it with a robot, the source added.

• A woman who works at a building where the shootings occurred texted her father: "Shooting at my work. People shot." The father told CNN affiliate KABC his daughter told him 10 to 20 people were shot.

• Loma Linda University Medical Center is expecting an unknown number of patients from the shooting, spokeswoman Briana Pastorino said. She said the extent of the anticipated patients' injuries is not clear.

• There are multiple buildings in the complex, CNN affiliate KTLA reported. SWAT teams are moving methodically through to clear them.

• The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were responding, agency representatives said.

• Wednesday's shooting occurred at the Inland Regional Center, a facility for people with developmental disabilities. It is unclear how many people were at the facility at the time of the shooting. The center's Facebook page says it employs nearly 670 people at its facilities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, providing service to more than 30,200 people.

It aims to "work on a personal, one-on-one basis with people with developmental disabilities to make their lives better as they define it." No information is yet available on how many people were at the facility at the time of the shooting.

• The sheriff's department tweeted that there was an "active shooter in the area of Orange Show Rd/Waterman Ave near Park Center."

$4bn ‘mega airport’ is planned for Addis Ababa

$4bn ‘mega airport’ is planned for Addis Ababa

Ethiopia is planning a $4bn mega airport in Addis Ababa that is intended to serve as many as 120m passengers annually when it opens in more than a decade’s time. This will put it on par with the new Istanbul Airport that is now under construction and, if it comes off, will offer one of Africa’s biggest duty free and travel retail opportunities further down the line.

The new airport will have four runways, several passenger terminals and an airport city on the outskirts of the capital. “The project reflects the scale of Ethiopia’s economic ambitions and will form an important component in developing the country’s tourism and light manufacturing sectors,” says Charles Pembroke an analyst at UK-based risk intelligence house PGI.

The scheme is helped by strong growth (and profits, see below) by national carrier Ethiopian Airlines (+17% seat growth in the 12 months to September) which has been a ‘good news’ story for Africa amid a difficult period for the continent, hit by multiple terrorist attacks and health scares. The government wants to transform Addis Ababa into an aviation hub for the African region in the way that Dubai and Istanbul have done in their regions through national carriers Emirates and Turkish Airlines respectively.

SECURING FINANCE

However Pembroke warns: “The project is at risk of delays due to challenges securing finance, while the huge costs entailed threaten to exacerbate foreign exchange shortages in the coming years.”

The planned airport will be one of Ethiopia’s most ambitious projects, surpassed only by the $4.8bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and demonstrates a commitment to state-led investment in huge infrastructure projects.

However, such schemes are putting enormous pressure on Ethiopia’s public finances with the IMF reporting Ethiopia’s public debt-to-GDP ratio at a high 50%. Access to finance and liquidity could therefore curtail big projects.

The new hub plans are in addition to an ongoing $350m expansion of Addis Ababa’s existing Bole International Airport which now ranks fourth in Africa, having overtaken Cape Town. That expansion is set to increase capacity from 6m passengers annually to 22m by 2018.
The existing Bole airport has overtaken Cape Town to become Africa's fourth busiest airport by seat capacities

The existing Bole airport has overtaken Cape Town to become Africa’s fourth busiest airport by seat capacities in the 12 months to September

TOURISM TARGETS

The two developments combined should transform Addis Ababa into one of the largest aviation hubs in Africa and will help Ethiopia to develop its tourism and light manufacturing sectors. In August the culture and tourism ministry announced plans to triple Ethiopia’s annual foreign visitors to 2.5m by 2020.

Tourism currently generates $2.9 bn for the economy and several international hotel chains have set up operations in the country in recent years. PGI also notes that global brands such as Unilever, General Electric and GlaxoSmithKline are all planning investments that will supply international markets from Ethiopia.

ADDIS ABABA TO OVERTAKE NAIROBI?

At a time when major African airlines, including South Africa Airlines (SAA) and Kenya Airways, are scaling back operations or facing financial difficulties, Ethiopian Airlines reported record profits of $175m in 2014/15.

Of the four African airlines that carry more than 5m passengers annually, Ethiopian Airlines has doubled its traffic since 2009 and increased the number of aircraft in its fleet, while the other three – SAA, Kenya Airways and Royal Air Maroc – have seen virtually no growth, says PGI.

Pembroke says: “With the arrival of the new airport, Ethiopian Airlines will be well positioned to consolidate its market share, benefiting from increased passenger traffic and air freight. This is likely to see Addis Ababa emerge as the principle aviation hub in East Africa, overtaking Nairobi over the next decade.”

Meet the female pilots who are taking over Zimbabwe and Ethiopia’s skies

On Nov. 18, the Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Bangkok, Thailand had something different to it: it was completely operated by a female crew, from ground operations all the way to the sky. Captain Amsale Gualu was assisted by a female co-pilot, Selam Tesfaye, and by an all-female cabin crew and female ground staff. This was a first in the history of the airline—and likely in that of African aviation.

“Here in the continent of Africa, we are lagging behind in women empowerment,” Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam wrote in a statement. He also noted that “women are the continent greatest untapped resource,” and that the decision to have a fully female-operated flight was primarily “an opportunity to inspire young African female students to believe in their dreams”, with an eye to the skill gap for aviation professionals.

Ethiopian Airlines says 31% of his personnel is female—though women are mostly employed as cabin crews, and technical positions remain predominantly male.

THANKSGIVING ታላቅ ሽያጭ ጠቋሚ

Two South African thieves caught wearing meat as dress

Embarrassment to the whole African nation two south African women caught red handed wearing a meat as under garment. They covered their crime with their working  green overall.
Too shame! 

Suspected mastermind of Paris massacre killed in terror raid

The man widely known as the suspected mastermind of last Friday's Paris attacks that killed 129 people, who bragged that he could always stay one step ahead of Western intelligence, was killed in the police raid north of Paris Wednesday.
Officials also confirmed that his cousin was killed, when she apparently blew herself up.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, had been linked to as many as four thwarted attacks since this spring, including the plot to kill passengers on a Paris-bound high-speed train in August, a plot that three young Americans helped foil. He was identified from skin samples after the Saint-Denis apartment raid, the French prosecutor's office reported.
Later Thursday, police in the eastern French city of Charleville-Mezieres blew open a door to enter a house during a new raid.
French police are looking for anything that could be linked to jihadi networks or illegal weapons. Police spokeswoman Mathilde Coulon would not give further details about the Thursday evening raid.
Abaaoud had claimed he successfully moved back and forth from Europe to Syria coordinating terror attacks, and narrowly escaped a January police raid in the Belgian city of Verviers. “Allah blinded their vision and I was able to leave... despite being chased after by so many intelligence agencies," he told the ISIS magazine Dabiq.
Two counterterrorism sources tell Fox News his death marks a major advance for the investigation, but add they are operating on the premise that more senior suspects connected to the plot are still out there.
They describe Abaaoud as the “Mohammed Atta” of the Paris attacks, the “tactical guy” who identified and pulled together the operatives, in the same way the lead hijacker kept the 9/11 teams on course.
They emphasize that based on his skill set and experience, Abaaoud was not the strategic planner, in the same way Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was for the 9/11 attacks. The Paris massacre involved a plot or plots with multiple layers and upwards of 20 players, according to the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Texas Republican Michael McCaul.
Police say they launched Wednesday's operation after receiving information from tapped phone calls, surveillance and tipoffs suggesting that Abaaoud was holed up in the apartment. Investigators said it was still unclear how he died. Eight other people were arrested.
French authorities did not know he was in Europe before the massacre, France's interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday. He demanded Europe do everything in its power to "vanquish terrorism."
During the raid, according to one police official, an officer approached Abaaoud's cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, and asked her, "Where is your boyfriend?" She responded angrily: "He's not my boyfriend!" Then there was an explosion.
The bodies recovered in the raid were badly mangled, with a part of the woman's spine landing on a police car, complicating formal identification. Her possible role in the Paris massacre was unclear.
Abaaoud's death may provide some relief not only for Europeans, but also for his own family. “We are praying that Abdelhamid really is dead,” his sister, Yasmina, said last year, The New York Times reported. At the time, there was word he died fighting for ISIS, but it eventually emerged that he escaped Syria for Europe.
His own father, Omar, said the jihadi "dishonored" his family, the Times added.