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Ethiopia - Meles Zenawi holds talks with Somalia President
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Ethiopia is committed to implement decision made by member countries of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to maintain peace in Somalia.
The Premier here on Tuesday held talks with Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia. The president took part in the meeting of leaders of IGAD countries.
Meles on the occasion said Ethiopia will exert efforts to implement decision of the IGAD countries except deploying troops to that country.
The President on his part lauded Ethiopia's efforts to maintain peace in Somalia.
He also requested Ethiopia to strengthen its ongoing support in coordinating countries providing support to Somalia and deploying security forces to that country.
Cab Driver Accused Of Falling Asleep Behind Wheel
INDIANAPOLIS -- The city has issued an emergency suspension of the license of a cab driver accused of falling asleep behind the wheel.
Haile Ghebre Tensae, who drove for Indy Airport Taxi, was told Tuesday that he can no longer operate a cab after two separate complaints were lodged with the Department of Code Enforcement, 6News' Jack Rinehart reported.
"The cab driver, while providing transportation to a woman and her small child, fell asleep and veered into the opposite lane of traffic," said Licensing Administrator Adam Collins. "She had to shake him to wake him up."
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Ethiopia: Robbers involved in Britain's biggest diamond raid were “wannabe gangsters” still living with mom and dad
Ethiopia: Profile of Robbers involved in Britain's biggest diamond raid
It is to be recalled that last month a man from Ethiopia has been found guilty of the biggest jewelery robbery in Britain's history.
Aman Kassaye, 25, used a gun to force a shop worker at Graff Diamonds in Mayfair, central London, to hand over gems valued at £40m last August.
Kassaye has been found guilty of conspiracy to rob, kidnapping and possession of a firearm.
The Daily Telegraph has more details about the ring leader Aman Kassaye and another Ethiopian? named Soloman Beyene seen first left above.
Aman Kassaye, 25 – ringleader and armed robber
The gang ringleader, Kassaye was a convicted drug user and dealer who was living with his parents under police bail when he carried out the audacious raid.
In the aftermath he fled to Liverpool, where he had a neck tattoo depicting a set of stars in an attempt to change his appearance, before returning to stay in the four-star Kensington Close Hotel. He used a false name and ran up a £1,000 bill before police tracked him down.
When Kassaye was arrested by Flying Squad officers close he told them: “You don't have to do this, nobody got hurt.”
Police discovered a set of passport photos in his room – suggesting he was ready to flee the country using a false passport – and also discovered a quantity of modified blank pistol cartridges – the type used in the raid.
Born in Ethiopia, Kassaye was the son of a captain in the local police force and moved to Britain with his family when he was three-years-old. He grew up with two sisters and a brother at the family home on the Lisson Green estate in St John’s Wood, northwest London – where the friends he made became his accomplices.
Kassaye left North Westminster School aged 16 with eight GCSEs, and began using and dealing in cannabis, then cocaine.
Aged 18, he was convicted of possession of an offensive weapon. He went to St Mary's University in Twickenham, west London, but dropped out of a media degree because he '”couldn't keep up”.
In 2003 he was convicted twice, receiving a £150 fine for possessing Ecstasy and a two-year conditional discharge for having crack cocaine.
But he continued to build his drugs business, which generated up to £500 profit a week.
In June 2008 he moved to Viridian Apartments in Battersea, where he rented a flat for £1,350-a-month. By the time of the robbery Kassaye was on police bail, on condition he lived with his parents, having been arrested in November 2008 for possession of cocaine.
Neighbours said they doubted he was capable of masterminding the Graff robbery.
A neighbour said: “When we heard that he was supposed to be the ringleader of this raid, we just laughed because it seemed so far-fetched. I only knew of his as a student who had been in a bit of trouble for drugs before, not some kind of criminal mastermind. He was still living with his mum."
Soloman Beyene, 25 – second in command
A university graduate and convicted drug dealer, Beyene was only released from jail a month before the robbery – but became a key organiser.
He was Aman Kassaye's second-in-command and had been his main partner in dealing drugs to affluent foreign students at a private London college, most of whom lived and socialised in South Kensington and Chelsea.
After being caught with cannabis in February last year he was jailed for nine months but was released having served half of his sentence by July. He was immediately cut into the plot.
Beyene bought nine mobile phones for the gang and during one visit to a phone shop he was seen handing out cash to others to buy more handsets.
He also hired a Ford Transit van which was seen in New Bond Street before the raid and was used to block a police car responding to a 999 call.
He grew up with Kassaye on the Lisson Green council estate in north west London and was still living at his parents’ two-bedroom flat at the time of the raid.
Residents described him as a “wannabe gangster” whose descent into small-time drug dealing had left his “hard-working and respectable parents” ashamed.
A neighbour said: “He liked to be known as ‘Sol’ and tried to cultivate this image of being a bit of a gangster.
“When we were in our late teens, we bought into it, because he was older than us. He’d point an imaginary pistol at us with his fingers, say ‘aye’ a lot and try to sound like a drug baron off The Wire.
“But all his macho posturing was really quite ridiculous because he was still living with his mum and dad, and wasn’t doing much more than peddling a bit of puff on the side.”
Another neighbour added: “His poor parents. They are a very hard-working and respectable family but they have been left ashamed by what their son has become.
“He had been in a bit of trouble before but nothing major. It’s hard to imagine how he got wrapped up in this jewellery raid.”
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Ethiopia ranks 12th in troop contribution to UN peacekeeping mission
nazret.com - Ethiopia, a regional military power in East Africa, ranks 12th in troop contribution to United Nations peacekeeping mission. Ethiopia has 2,404 peacekeeping officers currently serving in peacekeeping missions around the world, of these 93 are women, according to the latest report from UN.
Relative to its population, Ethiopia lags other African countries in the number of peacekeeping officers, with Ghana (3,931), Rwanda (3,647) and Senegal (2,437) all contributing more than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia has a contingent of peacekeeping officers serving in Darfur with United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur. It also has officers serving in United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad, United Nations Mission in Liberia, and United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire.
The top five contributors are Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria and Egypt. There are 101,867 officers currently serving in UN peacekeeping missions.
Palestinian President begins an official visit to Ethiopia
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, arrived in Addis Ababa late on Monday for a three day official visit to Ethiopia.
According to the Palestinian embassy in Addis Ababa, the visit aims to consolidate the bonds of love and constructive cooperation between the two countries, enhancing bilateral cooperation, and open new horizons between the two countries, especially in the areas of investment, trade and agriculture.
“It will give an opportunity for the leaders to exchange views and consultations in regional and international issues of common concern. It also comes to mobilize support for diplomatic efforts exerted by President Mahmoud Abbas to put an end to the Arab - Israeli and Palestinian - Israeli conflict,” said the embassy.
It will be the first time when such high level Palestinian official is visiting Ethiopia.
It is also scheduled that the Palestinian President will hold official talks with the President of Ethiopia, Girma Wolde Giorgis, and with Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, on issues of mutual interest, latest developments in the peace process and “Israeli violations sustained against Islamic and Christian sanctities” in Palestine.
Abbas is also expected to lay down a foundation stone for the construction of a Palestine embassy in Ethiopia, for which the Ethiopian government has granted a free plot of land.
Palestine established diplomatic relations with Ethiopia by opening a consulate in Addis Ababa in the early 1970s.
Ethiopia - Prime Minister of Canada Announces $20 Million for Building Capacity in Africa
During a special visit to Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) tied to the centre’s Global Outreach activities, the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper announced new federal funding of $20 CDN million to speed the growth of science and technology capacity in Africa by developing the talent of its brightest young minds.
This high impact investment leverages Perimeter Institute’s expertise to build upon the success of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town, South Africa. Canada’s lead investment will help support the establishment of a network of five AIMS centres across Africa by 2015. Year over year, the centres will graduate African scientists with the skills needed to tackle development challenges and seize opportunities for innovation and growth. In the longer term, The AIMS Next Einstein Initiative seeks to create a network of 15 AIMS centres by 2020, graduating 750 scientists and technologists per annum.
PI As Catalyst
Canada’s Perimeter Institute is a unique public-private partnership institution that supports both world-class research at the frontiers of science, and outreach initiatives of international scope. PI’s new Global Outreach program aims to promote emerging centres of excellence in math and science internationally, especially in the developing world. PI does not fund other organizations, but assists them by sharing best practices in developing, establishing and operating centres of excellence. In doing so, PI is pleased to work with the Canadian government and its agencies to ensure that Canada is best able to leverage its expertise as a knowledge nation, in the pursuit of its international development goals.
High Impact, Lasting Value
In a special announcement involving Dr. Stephen Hawking, PI Distinguished Research Chair as well as patron of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the Prime Minister of Canada announced the new federal funding as a central element of a partnership between Universities, the private sector and African governments focused on establishing the AIMS network, including new centres in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Senegal. Prime Minister Stephen Harper commended AIMS’ revolutionary approach and said, “History shows that our world becomes safer, healthier and more stable through advances made in science and technology. Humanity’s ascent from ignorance and barbarism to enlightenment and equality has been a fitful and uneven process. If there is, however, a universal constant in human affairs, it is that the expansion of knowledge and technology has continuously made life better for more people. That’s why our government is supporting scientific and technological research, as well as development at home and abroad.”
PI Director Dr. Neil Turok, who is also the founder of AIMS, thanked the Prime Minister and the Government of Canada for accelerating the growth of scientific centres of excellence in Africa. He said, “We are honoured today to be working with the government of Canada in support of its efforts to build a better, safer world in which health, freedom, peace and solvency – rights which characterise life in Canada - are shared by all. With today’s announcement of major support for the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Canada is also pioneering the sharing of knowledge and expertise as a route to development. Just as ideas and innovation are the foundation of Canada’s new economy, they will be the basis of Africa’s future economic, educational, scientific and governance self-sufficiency.”
Professor Hawking visited South Africa in May 2008 to help announce the Next Einstein Initiative that would see the growth of AIMS into a pan-African network of centres. Upon meeting Prime Minister Harper and learning of this new, federal support, Prof. Hawking said, “I was lucky to visit AIMS in South Africa, in 2008, to enjoy the remarkable atmosphere, filled with the students' enthusiasm for math, science and the future of Africa. Science is a powerful unifier of people from all countries and cultures. I believe that connecting Africans to each other and to the world through science is one of the best investments one can make in Africa’s future.”
In commenting on these announcements, Mike Lazaridis, Perimeter Institute’s founder and Board Chair said, “I am very gratified that Perimeter Institute is not only advancing scientific research, training and outreach here in Canada, but is now viewed as a model of excellence throughout the world. We will do all we can to share our expertise with other centres and we welcome all partners who believe in our vision to harness the process and power of science for peace, progress and prosperity.”
About AIMS-NEI and PI Global Outreach
For more information about the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the Next Einstein Initiative, see http://www.aims.ac.za/ and http://www.nexteinstein.org/. For more information about Perimeter Institute’s Global Outreach activities, please contact Suzanne Corbeil, PI Director of Global Outreach, at scorbeil@perimeterinstitute.ca
About Perimeter Institute
Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is an independent, non-profit, scientific research and educational outreach organization where international scientists cluster to push the limits of our understanding of physical laws and develop new ideas about the very essence of space, time, matter and information. The centre provides a multi-disciplinary environment to foster scientific collaboration in research areas of cosmology, particle physics, quantum foundations, quantum gravity, quantum information, superstring theory, and related disciplines. PI also provides a wide array of award-winning outreach programs for students, teachers and the general public across Canada in order to share the joy of research, discovery and innovation. In partnership with the Governments of Ontario and Canada, PI continues to be a successful example of private and public collaboration in science research and education. http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/
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