Monday, August 11, 2008

Oil Exploration when the alternative energy agenda is seeking carbon free footrpints

Falcon acquires exploration blocks in Abay Basin
Reporter, Ethiopia
Saturday, 09 August 2008
Kaleyesus Bekele
– To pay USD 200,000 signing bonus
Falcon Petroleum Ltd., a company registered in Cyprus and based in the UK, has acquired three oil exploration blocks with a total area of 25,875 sq km in the Abay sedimentary basin found in the Amhara Regional State.
After a series of negotiations […]

Posted August 11, 2008 – 7:35 am | Posted in Ethiopia | Comments (0)
Oil price forces change to flower flow
The Australian
Geoff Hiscock
August 11, 2008
SOARING air freight prices this year are hastening a switch to sea transport in what will mark a tipping point for the global cut flower industry, according to the world’s biggest rose supplier, Ramakrishna Karuturi.
Bangalore-based Karuturi, who aims to produce 1 billion stems a year by 2010 from his […]

Posted August 11, 2008 – 7:34 am | Posted in Ethiopia, Kenya | Comments (0)
In Ethiopia, jailed singer Tewodros Kassahun is a political symbol
Los Angeles Times
Edmund Sanders
August 11, 2008
Fans say the reggae star was framed because his music was seen as anti-government. ‘You don’t know where the line is — until you’ve crossed it,’ says one Ethiopian.
YouTube Video: Teddy Afro
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Sequestered in a dank prison cell here, Ethiopia’s biggest reggae star awaits trial in […]

Posted August 11, 2008 – 7:32 am | Posted in Ethiopia | Comments (0)
EU boosts aid to Horn of Africa
DPA, Germany
Friday Aug 8, 2008
Brussels - The European Union on Friday allocated an extra 21 million euros (32.4 million dollars) in emergency aid to Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, officials said. “The challenges in the Horn of Africa are huge and multi- dimensional … Humanitarian aid is an expression of Europe’s solidarity with those […]

Posted August 8, 2008 – 8:56 pm | Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Regional, Somalia | Comments (0)
Somali refugees losing patience with fractious leaders
AFP

August 8, 2008
NAIROBI — Somali refugees in Kenya are losing hope of ever returning to their home where rival groups are again battling for control.
Already facing drought and starvation, Somalia’s misery was compounded last week when a fresh rift opened in its fragile government, further jeopardising chances of progress in a fledgling plan to […]

Posted August 8, 2008 – 8:55 pm | Posted in Somalia | Comments (0)
Masked militia raid Somali town
VOA
August 8, 2008
More than 100 masked Islamic militiamen have taken control of a strategic town in the south-west of Somalia.
The BBC’s Mohamed Olad Hassan in the capital says the fighters occupied Hudur town without any resistance.
They told inhabitants they were al-Shabab militants, who are opposed to Ethiopian troops in the country.
Meanwhile, insurgents […]

Posted August 8, 2008 – 8:53 pm | Posted in Ethiopia, Somalia | Comments (0)
Ethiopia signs oil exploration deal with Falcon
Reuters
Fri 8 Aug 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia and Cyprus-based Falcon Petroleum Ltd have signed an oil exploration deal for nearly 26,000 square km (10,040 sq mile) in the Blue Nile basin, the Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Friday.
The exploration period will last four years and can be extended twice each year for two […]

Posted August 8, 2008 – 6:51 pm | Posted in Ethiopia | Comments (0)
Migrants rescued off Italy coast
BBC
August 8, 2008
Some 12,000 people have arrived in Lampedusa since January
Italian vessels have rescued at least 250 would-be migrants from boats and vessels off the coast of Italy.
The navy rescued at least 175 people, believed to be from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia from three vessels, 190km (120 miles) south of Lampedusa island.
A […]

Posted August 8, 2008 – 6:49 pm | Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia | Comments (0)
SOMALIA: Death threats as UN raises alarm over increase in attacks
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79722
IRIN

August 8, 2008
“I received a telephone call last night [Thursday] telling me I was the next to die,” the aid worker, who declined to be named for security reasons, told IRIN on 8 August.
Despite the threat, the aid worker vowed to continue with a weeklong protest organised by civil society members and internally […]

Posted August 8, 2008 – 6:48 pm | Posted in Somalia | Comments (0)
Returning to Somaliland to shape the future
Reuters

Thu 7 Aug 2008
Hussein Ali Nur and Guled Mohamed
HARGEISA, Somalia (Reuters) - Almis Yahye Ibrahim remembers when he and his friends hit on the idea of building a university in one of the world’s most neglected corners, the breakaway republic of Somaliland.
It was the winter of 1997, and they were hanging out in Helsinki’s […]

Posted August 8, 2008 – 6:44 pm | Posted in Somalia, Somaliland | Comments (0)

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