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Ethiopian Airlines, the largest aviation group in Africa and Goldstar Air, multiple award winner and wholly owned Ghanaian airline have signed an agreement for strategic partnership to use Ethiopian"s Maintenance Repair Organization . The MRO of Ethiopian Airlines has over 1,800 fully qualified technical staff and state of the art maintenance hangar and paint hangar facility certified by competent regulatory bodies like Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority , Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency .
Goldstar Air, a wholly Ghanaian owned airline is working to have its own Maintenance Repair Organization and Training School in Tamale soon. In the interim, the airline and Ethiopian Airlines have signed an agreement for it to use Ethiopian Airline's MRO to assist Goldstar Air.
O... A policy intended to protect against the illegal trade of ivory has prompted an online sales website to cancel accounts held by Alaska Native artists, who can legally use ivory in their artwork. A policy intended to protect against the illegal trade of ivory has prompted an online sales website to cancel accounts held by Alaska Native artists, who can legally use ivory in their artwork.
Zaida CatalA n was a Swedish politician who was a member of the Green Party and leader of the Young Greens of Sweden between 2001 and 2005. She was known for her work in animal rights, equality and the sex purchase law .
There are a number of examples of the criminal justice system being exploited for political ends. It appears as if the Gupta family, known for being politically connected to South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and accused of "state capture", have not had a good start to the year.
South African MPs on Wednesday expressed "grave concern" over the delay in releasing the terms of reference with regard to the Commission of Inquiry into state capture. President Jacob Zuma must issue the terms of reference as a matter of urgency and this must be based on the remedial action of former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's report on state capture, said Mathole Motshekga, Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services.
Swiss Federal President Alain Berset, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, shake hands prior to a meeting one day before the start of the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.
Fox's medical drama The Resident premiered on January 22 with their pilot episode in which we get to know the doctors at the fictional Chastain Park Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Chief of Surgery Dr. Randolph Bell is highly respected but, it turns out, it kind of a a jerk, and has an interesting take on the state of American immigration.
America's Department of Justice statement of November 2017, naming Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa as a recipient of a bribe in exchange for oil concessions and other contracts may or may not constitute a change of policy among Uganda's development partners. The United States has known about and tolerated the most glaring instances of corruption for much of the thirty-year life-span of the National Resistance Movement government.
The well-educated and well-spoken African responded: "Yes, it is true, and the U.S. Embassy is the biggest hut next to my hut!" It was funny then, until my friend was asked that same question at her school in Washington. President Trump's reported statement that when Nigerians see America they never want to go back to "their huts" is downright appalling.
Since November 2015 unprecedented protests have been taking place in Ethiopia: angry and frustrated at the widespread abuse of human rights and the centralization of power in the hands of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front tens of thousands have taken to the streets. The ruling party's response to this democratic outpouring has been consistently violent; hundreds have been killed and beaten by security forces, tens of thousands arrested and imprisoned.
Dispelling a swirl of rumors about how Sgt. La David T. Johnson, 25, of Miami Gardens, Florida, died, the report has determined that he was killed by enemy rifle and machine gun fire as he fled the attack by an offshoot of the Islamic State group about 120 miles north of Niamey, the capital of the African country.
Meghan Markle became an advocate for women when she was an 11-year-old elementary school student, and achieving gender equality remains a driving force for the fiance of Britain's Prince Harry and self-described "feminist." Since 2014, the American actress has helped put a global spotlight on the need for equality between women and men as an "Advocate for Political Participation and Leadership" for the women's agency of the United Nations .
More than 30 migrants died and 200 were rescued after their boats foundered off Libya's western coast, the Libyan navy said. The coastguard conducted two rescue operations off the city of Garabulli, 60 kilometres east of Tripoli, spokesman Colonel Abu Ajila Abdelbarri said.
Lawmakers within the ruling Zanu pf party gathered Monday to meet on the fate of long ... . Terrence Chari poses as he mimics a painting of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Mbare Harare, Monday, Nov, 20, 2017.
Authorities are searching Texas' Big Bend for potential suspects and witnesses after a U.S. Customs Border Patrol agent was fatally injured responding to activity there. The latest group of U.S. Rhodes scholars includes 10 African-Americans, the most ever in a single Rhodes class, a transgender man and four students from colleges that had never had received the honor before.
Two of President Donald Trump's leading economic advisers sent mixed signals Sunday on the fate of a health care provision in the Senate version of a $1.5 trillion measure to overhaul business and personal income taxes that is expected to be voted on after Thanksgiving. The provision to repeal a requirement that everyone in the U.S. have insurance has emerged as a major sticking point for Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has said that issue should be dealt with separately from the push by Trump and fellow Republicans to overhaul the tax code.
In a euphoric gathering that j... . A happy protester pulls a face as he and others stand under a large national flag, at a demonstration of tens of thousands at Zimbabwe Grounds in Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017.
In a euphoric gathering that j... . A happy protester pulls a face as he and others stand under a large national flag, at a demonstration of tens of thousands at Zimbabwe Grounds in Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017.
Robert Mugabe better take care in offering his death as a bargaining position because a mob of Zimbabweans might be on their way to accept those terms. The four-decade dictator has mostly remained in his presidential compound since the military seized control of Harare after Mugabe tried sacking his vice president to hand control over to his wife.