Africa’s largest airline group, Ethiopian Airlines, is pleased to announce that it has won the 2016 Airline Reliability Performance Award, for the 6th year in a row, from Bombardier Aerospace.

The Airline Reliability Performance Award recognizes operators of Bombardier CRJ Series regional jets and Q Series turboprops who have achieved the highest rates of dispatch reliability.

Group CEO Ethiopian Airlines, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, remarked: “We are honoured to receive Bombardier’s Airline Reliability Performance Award for the 6th consecutive year. In line with our continuous effort to provide our customers a seamless travel experience, Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircrafts has enabled us offer the best on board experience on our regional and domestic routes. Moreover, through our strategic partnerships with ASKY Airlines in Togo and Malawian Airlines in Malawi, the Q400 airliner has played a vital role in availing convenient connections, as well as increasing frequencies to support air travel growth in Africa and successfully create a missing link. I wish to thank our Engineering team at Ethiopian MRO, Turbo Prop and Light A/C team as well as the Bombardier Field Service representatives for this notable milestone.”

Ethiopian flies the Q-400 to 20 domestic destinations and regional routes such as Djibouti, Mombasa, Kilimanjaro, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, Entebbe, Kigali, Juba, Khartoum and Hargeisa.

Ethiopian is multi award winning carrier and has recently been crowned as ‘African Airline of the Year 2017 Award’, ‘Cargo Airline Award for Network Development at Brussels’ in June and March respectively.

Source: Ethiopian Airlines Press Release

Climate change might not feel that important if you’re living far away from a coastline. But that doesn’t mean your life won’t change. Lots of the items people love will likely be influenced by the changing climate in some way, and the popular Ethiopian coffee is a prime example.

Coffee makes up around a quarter of Ethiopia’s exports by value. But the effects of climate change might knock out large swaths of the country’s farming area. A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Ethiopia doesn’t think all hope is lost, but saving the country’s coffee market is going to take some careful planning.

“We’ve been doing these studies for quite some time... most of the results were quite negative,” researcher Justin Moat from the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in the United Kingdom told Gizmodo. “But the findings from this report show that there’s a large amount of area in Ethiopia in good conditions for coffee to be grown if we do something about it now.”

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The coffee plant’s needs are simple: warm weather and rain. But as you’re probably aware, humans are contributing to a changing climate by emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The consequences differ depending on the location, but most models show climate change resulting in a generally warmer, drier Ethiopia with less predictable seasonal weather patterns. Most of the country’s coffee comes from humid forests or shaded areas.

Global warming is likely to wipe out half of the coffee growing area in Ethiopia, the birthplace of the bean, according to a groundbreaking new study. Rising temperatures have already damaged some special areas of origin, with these losses being likened to France losing one of its great wine regions.

Ethiopia’s highlands also host a unique treasure trove of wild coffee varieties, meaning new flavour profiles and growing traits could be lost before having been discovered. However, the new research also reveals that if a massive programme of moving plantations up hillsides to cooler altitudes were feasible, coffee production could actually increase.

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Coffee vies with tea as the world’s favourite beverage and employs 100 million people worldwide in farming the beans alone. But climate change is coffee’s greatest long-term threat, killing plantations or reducing bean quality and allowing the deadly coffee leaf rust fungus to thrive. Without major action both in the coffee industry and in slashing greenhouse gas emissions, coffee is predicted to become more expensive and worse-tasting.

The research combined climate-change computer modelling with detailed measurements of current ground conditions, gathered in fieldwork that covered a total distance of 30,000km within Ethiopia. It found that 40-60% of today’s coffee growing areas in Ethiopia would be unsuitable by the end of the century under a range of likely warming scenarios.

But the study, published in the journal Nature Plants, also shows that major relocation programmes could preserve or even expand the country’s coffee-growing areas. “There is a pathway to resilience, even under climate change,” said Aaron Davis, at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in the UK, who conducted the work with Ethiopian scientists. “But it is a hugely daunting task. Millions of farmers would have to change.”

However, by 2040, such moves uphill will have reached the top of Ethiopia’s mountains. “It literally reaches the ceiling, because you don’t have any higher place to go,” Davis said.....

Owing to the sound Diaspora policy, government's incentives, sustainable peace and security, ever growing tourism flow, among others, international brand and Diaspora involvement in hotel business in the country have shown a marked rise, according to Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Ministry Diaspora Coordination Office Head Muluneh Mathios told The Ethiopian Herald that members of Ethiopian Diaspora investment in hospitality industry have been steadily growing. However, their engagement in such business varies from state to state.

He noted that Diaspora led-investments into the domestic economies surge 50 per cent annually.

According to him, currently, a large number of Diaspora communities are actively engaging in hotel construction at various tourist destinations of the states. "They have so far created over 50,000 permanent and temporary jobs across the country."

Pointing out the attributing factors for the active Diaspora involvement in the national development, Muluneh said Diaspora policy, government's incentives, peace and security, existence of affordable labor, among others are mentionable....

Angelina Jolie gave her estranged husband, Brad Pitt, a wonderful Father’s Day gift: time with his children.

According to E! News, some of Jolie and Pitt’s children spent time with their dad at his home in Los Angeles over the weekend. They were spotted being dropped off in a Suburban. After a few hours of bonding with Pitt, his children were picked up and went back to Jolie’s home. All six traveled with their mom to the LAX to go on a trip to Ethiopia. Zahara, 12, was adopted from the country in 2005.

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Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016, two years after getting married to the actor. They were together for over a decade before finally deciding to tie the knot. After getting into a custody battle over their children, Pitt and Jolie reached a temporary agreement that states that the kids will be living with Jolie, while Pitt could have therapeutic visitation with them. The actor was also required to attend weekly individual therapy sessions.

Last month, “The Inglorious Basterds” star opened up to GQ Style about his split from Jolie. The actor shared that he loves going to his individual therapy sessions, but only managed to find the right therapist after meeting with two professionals. Pitt also acknowledged some of his shortcomings and made a vow to become a better father.

Prior to Jolie’s divorce filing, news broke out that Pitt was involved in an altercation with his 15-year-old son, Maddox. There were claims that Pitt physically assaulted the teenager, and FBI investigated the incident. It was later closed with no charges.

“I was really on my back and chained to a system when Child Services was called. After that, we’ve been able to work together to sort this out. We’re both doing our best. I heard one lawyer say, ‘No one wins in court – it’s just a matter of who gets hurt worse.’ And it seems to be true. You spend a year just focused on building a case to prove your point and why you’re right and why they’re wrong, and it’s just an investment in vitriolic hatred,” he said....

Africa’s largest airline group, Ethiopian Airlines, has won the 2016 Airline Reliability Performance Award for the 6th year in a row from Bombardier Aerospace.
The Airline Reliability Performance Award recognizes operators of Bombardier CRJ Series regional jets and Q Series turboprops who have achieved the highest rates of dispatch reliability.
Group CEO Ethiopian Airlines, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, remarked: ‘We are honoured to receive Bombardier’s Airline Reliability Performance Award for the 6th consecutive year. In line with our continuous effort to provide our customers a seamless travel experience, Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircrafts has enabled us offer the best on board experience on our regional and domestic routes. Moreover, through our strategic partnerships with ASKY Airlines in Togo and Malawian Airlines in Malawi, the Q400 airliner has played a vital role in availing convenient connections, as well as increasing frequencies to support air travel growth in Africa and successfully create a missing link. I wish to thank our Engineering team at Ethiopian MRO, Turbo Prop and Light A/C team as well as the Bombardier Field Service representatives for this notable milestone‘.
Ethiopian flies their Q400’s to 20 domestic destinations and regional routes such as Djibouti, Mombasa, Kilimanjaro, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, Entebbe, Kigali, Juba, Khartoum and Hargeisa.
Ethiopian has recently been handed the ‘African Airline of the Year 2017 Award’ and was also named ‘Cargo Airline Award for Network Development at Brussels’ in June and March respectively.