Long-Haul Carrier Emirates Signals It Will Hold off on Major Airbus Purchase Over Engine Worries
Emirates is a heavyweight when it comes to East-West travel out of Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international travel. In March, the airline announced an order of up to 72 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jetliners and has further plans to expand. Other purchases Tuesday included:— Emirates announced $1.2 billion in deals with French firm Safran, including for seats. — Emirates announced plans for a $950 million maintenance facility at Al Maktoum International Airport, the city-state's second airfield. — Boeing and SCAT Airlines of Kazakhstan announced the airline would purchase seven Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
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November 14, 2023 11:29 UTC
Long-haul carrier Emirates signals it will hold off on major Airbus purchase over engine worries
Emirates is a heavyweight when it comes to East-West travel out of Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel. In March, the airline announced an order of up to 72 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jetliners and has further plans to expand. Other purchases Tuesday included:— Emirates announced $1.2 billion in deals with French firm Safran, including for seats. — Emirates announced plans for a $950 million maintenance facility at Al Maktoum International Airport, the city-state’s second airfield. — Boeing and SCAT Airlines of Kazakhstan announced the airline would purchase seven Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
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November 14, 2023 11:25 UTC
Soul Train Award Winning Jazz Vocalist Heads Uptown For Special Holiday Concert
The Miami-based performer, a Soul Train Traditional Jazz Performance Award winner from Philadelphia, has lit up stages of some of the world’s top venues and music festivals over the past two decades. Aaron Davis Hall is located on the campus of the City College of New York at West 135th Street and Convent Avenue (129 Convent Avenue). The concert is made possible with funding from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, Councilmember Carmen De La Rosa, The City University of New York and The City College of New York. Her passionate, soulful voice and heartfelt charisma have earned her a Soul Train Award for “Best Traditional Jazz Performance,” and four Top-10 jazz albums on U.S. The City College Center for the Arts:The award-winning City College Center for the Arts hosts an ambitious, year-round calendar of professional performances in the historic Aaron Davis Hall.
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November 14, 2023 09:05 UTC
Ethiopia: News - Senior Govt Officials Join Military Leaders in Dar es Salaam As Ongoing Talks With OLA Progress Positively
Addis Abeba — Ongoing negotiations between the Ethiopian government and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) in Dar es salaam are showing "positive progress" sources close to the mediation team revealed to Addis Standard. Addis Standard reported, last week quoting diplomatic sources, that senior government officials are "expected to join if the talks progress to a signing of an agreement". The "positive outcome" of these meetings helped progress to the talks between senior military officials of the two sides. IGAD hopes that the ongoing talks and mediation efforts result in sustainable solutions, Nuur said. Although both sides acknowledged positive progress, the dialogue ended without an agreement.
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November 14, 2023 08:04 UTC
Ethiopian-Israelis celebrate Sigd holiday under the shadow of war
“The Sigd holiday is a holiday that expresses unity and longing for Jerusalem,” Ophir Sofer, Israel’s minister of aliyah and integration, said at the event, according to Israeli media reports. Thousands of Ethiopian Jews take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem on November 23, 2022. The prayer is performed by Ethiopian Jews every year to celebrate their community's connection and commitment to Israel. Advocacy from within the Ethiopian Israeli community led to Israel adopting Sigd as a national holiday in 2008. The war casualties include an Ethiopian Israeli paratrooper named Yehonatan Semo, 21, who died after being injured in combat in Gaza.
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November 14, 2023 06:05 UTC
Apex Restaurant & Market Solutions Partners with Moii Coffee
(St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 14, 2023) – Apex Restaurant & Market Solutions has recently partnered with Moii Coffee to serve its freshly roasted Ethiopian coffee. Founded in 2022 by owner and Saint Louis University sophomore Firaol Ahmed, Moii Coffee uses coffee beans from his family’s farm and local farms located in Ethiopia. All the coffee is roasted at commercial roastery First Crack Coffee located at 2204 S. Vandeventer Ave. in St. Louis. “Firaol operates a one-person company that specializes in importing, roasting, packaging, and selling coffee from three areas of Ethiopia, including the Harrar region where he was born and raised,” said Apex Restaurant & Market Solutions CEO Jim Schweppe. We are excited to bring Moii Coffee’s high-quality and exceptional tasting coffee to our clients.”For more information about Apex Restaurant & Market Solutions, call (866) 607-4400 and visit www.apexrefresh.com.
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November 14, 2023 04:23 UTC
Ethiopian PM Abiy’s Red Sea Push Could Backfire
In confrontational language, Abiy all but threatened conflict should Ethiopia be denied what he called the country’s intrinsic right to waterway expansion. Abiy’s comments come at a time when Ethiopia is in a period of soul-searching, caught between the paths of democracy and authoritarianism. Africa’s Ties with the Major PowersAs a researcher in international relations and conflict resolution, I have watched as African countries have been courted by international powers, partly because of sea trade routes. Africa’s sea trade routes are of strategic and economic importance for major powers like China and the U.S. In addition, Abiy’s attempts to emulate global powers like China and Russia and impose its will through force carry their own risks.
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November 14, 2023 03:59 UTC
Ethiopia's Oromo Rebels in Tanzania for Peace Talks
Rebels from Ethiopia's Oromiya region said Monday they were in Tanzania for a second round of talks with the Ethiopian government to try to end decades of fighting. The negotiations come more than six months after a first round of discussions between the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and Ethiopia's government ended without an agreement. The conflict in recent years has killed hundreds of people and displaced tens of thousands in Ethiopia's most populous region. The OLA is an outlawed splinter group of the Oromo Liberation Front, a formerly banned opposition party that returned from exile after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — himself an Oromo — took office in 2018. Oromiya, which surrounds Addis Ababa, the capital, is home to Ethiopia's largest ethnic Oromo group and more than a third of the country's 110 million people.
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November 13, 2023 20:16 UTC
Ethiopia's Oromo rebels in Tanzania for peace talks
Rebels from Ethiopia's Oromiya region said on Monday they were in Tanzania for a second round of talks with the Ethiopian government to try to end decades of fighting. The negotiations come more than six months after a first round of discussions between the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and Ethiopia's government ended without an agreement. The conflict in recent years has killed hundreds of people and displaced tens of thousands in Ethiopia's most populous region. The OLA is an outlawed splinter group of the Oromo Liberation Front, a formerly banned opposition party that returned from exile after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed - himself an Oromo - took office in 2018. Oromiya, which surrounds Addis Ababa, the capital, is home to Ethiopia's largest ethnic Oromo group and more than a third of the country's 110 million people.
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November 13, 2023 19:27 UTC
Small plane crashes into car after overshooting runway
MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A small plane overshot the runway while landing at a Texas airport over the weekend and struck a car driving along a nearby road, injuring one person, authorities said. Video shows the propeller plane smash through a fence during an emergency landing in the Dallas suburb of McKinney on Saturday. It then bounced and skidded onto the road, losing a wheel and colliding with a silver sedan that was driving perpendicular to the single-engine plane’s path. The flight originated in Midland, a Texas oilpatch city 330 miles (531 kilometers) west of Dallas, and had been attempting an emergency landing at the Aero Country Airport, the fire department said. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the crash.
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November 13, 2023 18:08 UTC
Ethiopian breaks course record
Ethiopian breaks course recordTamikat Tola of Ethiopia clocked two hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds in the recent New York City Marathon to break Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai’s course record set in 2011. Tola was the 10,000 bronze medalist in the 2016 Rio Olympics but dropped out during the 2023 World Championship in Budapest. Kenya’s Albert Korir took second place in 2:06:57 while another Ethiopian, Shura Kitata wound up third in 2:07:11. Abdi Nageeya of the Netherland finished fourth in 2:10:21 with Belgian Koen Naert placing fifth in 2:10:25. Former world record holder Brigid Kosgei pocketed fourth place in 2:27:45.
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November 13, 2023 16:45 UTC
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Vodacom profit hit by Ethiopia losses but Egypt lifts revenue
Group service revenue grew 42.2% to 59.3 billion rand, thanks to the acquisition of Vodafone Egypt and rand depreciation against a basket of international currencies. Vodafone Egypt contributed 16 cents to HEPS and 14.3 billion rand to group service revenue, Group CEO Shameel Joosub said. Excluding the contribution of Vodafone Egypt, group service revenue growth was 7.9% or 4.1% on a normalised basis, supported by a resilient performance in South Africa, he added. In South Africa, its largest market, investments to keep the network running during power cuts helped lift service revenue by 4%. After investing 4.5 billion rand over 4-1/2 years to mitigate the impacts of power cuts, Vodacom will spend about 1 billion rand in this fiscal year.
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November 13, 2023 16:26 UTC
DRC: scientific institute reports intense volcanic activity
The Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO), the scientific institute in charge of monitoring Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira volcanoes, has said that there has been intense lava lake activity in the central crater of the latter since November 4th but noted that the situation is not critical. The activity is said to be concentrated in its crater at a depth of around twenty meters, according to the statement. Nyamuragira is a volcano located in the western end of the Virunga volcanic province, in North Kivu. There are currently no threats to the city of Goma, where around 670,000 people live according to UN estimates. The UN's International Organization for Migration reports a striking 6.9 million displaced people across the country the highest number recorded yet.
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November 13, 2023 15:18 UTC
Octogenarian decries alleged vandalism of Lagos property despite pending suit
An 84-year-old man, Dr Albert Ndulue, on Monday decried alleged vandalism of his Lagos property in spite of a pending suit on its ownership. At a press conference in Lagos, Ndulue said that dispute on the ownership of the property, located at Lekki, was before an Ajah High Court in Lagos. According to the octogenarian, the suit is numbered LD/6727/GCMW/2018 while the property is Plot 8, Block 24, Alma Beach Estate, Lekki. Ndulue told journalists that in spite of the pending suit, some thugs had vandalised the property. The plaintiff prayed, in the alternative, for an injunction to restrain the defendants, NICON Trustees and some others, from relying on the ruling pending final determination of the suit.
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November 13, 2023 14:30 UTC
Ethiopian Israelis celebrate Sigd holiday under the shadow of war
When you hear the name Bob Dylan, you may think “folk rock, gospel, country … even jazz,” but do you ever make the jump to “Broadway Musical?” You might have said yes if “Girl from the North Country,” with a book by Irish playwright Conor McPherson and a score consisting of the more obscure …
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November 13, 2023 14:15 UTC