African Millennium Celebration For Ethiopia

Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, N.Y., Fri. Dec. 1, 2006: Caribbean and other Rastafarians who believe that Haile Selassie, the former Emperor of Ethiopia, is the Black Messiah, now have a real opportunity to visit the land Selassie once called home.

The Third African Millennium festival is set for Ethiopia next September, organizers announced in New York this week. Ethiopia follows the original early Christian calendar and is 7-8 years behind the Gregorian calendar making next year officially the new millennium according to this calculation.


The African Millennium Committee of New York and Philadelphia, in conjunction with The Ethiopian Literacy Organization, has joined with other Ethiopian organizations and Friends of Ethiopia throughout the world to celebrate the Third African Millennium from September 12th, 2007.

To commemorate the Millennium, the AMC has scheduled four conference trips to Ethiopia that are designed to showcase Ethiopian history, religion, culture and its contribution to world civilization and development. The conferences will coincide with the New Year Festival (Enkutatash), September 8th-19th, 2007, The Founding Day of the True Cross Festival (Maskal), September 24th-October 3rd, 2007, The Baptism Festival (Timqat), January 16th 25th, 2008, and the Easter Festival (Fasika), April 5th-16th, 2008.

Conferees will have an opportunity to visit unforgettable religious and archeological sites, including the early sites of the early humans, learn about ancient religious traditions and texts, participate in colorful sacred festivals, enjoy thrilling music, dance, delicious food, extraordinary shopping and meet friendly people.

Ethiopian Airlines is the official airline of The African Millennium and according to Mekonnen Abebe, the airline’s director for North America, People who may have had previously fabulous Millennium travels can now top it off with a trip to where the first remains of humankind were discovered. The ability to come full-circle, from the birthplace of civilization to the third Millennium, will allow visitors to have a remarkable experience, and have wonderful stories that only a privileged few will have the opportunity to share.”

Dr. Ephraim Isaac, noted Ethiopian scholar, a founder of the Harvard University Afro-American Studies Department, internationally recognized peacemaker, and Director of the Institute of Semitic Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, will lead the AMC delegation and deliver several talks on Ethiopia’s unique religious and cultural history as well as its untapped potential as a future leader of African development.

Dr. Isaac believes that Ethiopia, as the cradle of human history and once a leader of the ancient world, can and must assume its rightful place as a leader of today’s global community. It is hoped that the Millennium celebrations will, in some significant way, serve as a catalyst to renew and re-energize Africa, African-Americans and Africans throughout the Diaspora to work together in a quest to have Africa become a major player on the world stage. For more, log on to: www.africanmillennium.net. – Hardbeatnews.com

Ethiopian leases new plane to meet demand

Published: 01-DEC-06

Addis Ababa - Due to the increasing number of its passengers, Ethiopian Airlines announced on Thursday it had leased a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft one a dry basis for long range flights.

Under the agreement with International Lease Financing Corporation (ILFC) of California, United States, the East African airline's cockpit crew would operate the aircraft to any scheduled destination, with its own cabin crew providing service on board.

Manufactured in October 1996, the 220-seater plane, with 190 Economy Class seats, was expected to meet Ethiopian's current capacity requirement, according to the airline management.

The aircraft left Amsterdam, Netherlands, at noon on Thursday and was scheduled to land at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport on the same day at 21:45 local time.

Ethiopian and ILFC signed the five-year lease agreement on November 23 2006 in Addis Ababa. The deal would be effective on December 8. -panapress

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Emirates to Fly Daily to Addis Ababa

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Emirates started to fly to Addis Ababa in March 2006. The airline flies to Addis Ababa on Monday, Wednesday and Friday using an Airbus A340-300 aircraft. The Airline will add four additional flights to the existing three per week. It will provide a daily non-stop service as of December 1. Emirates has become a strong rival to Ethiopian Airlines.

"A growing focus on Africa with scheduled enhancements to the existing operations in Egypt, Ethiopia and Tanzania marks the start of Emirates' winter schedule," the Airline said. "Connections to East Africa will also improve as Emirates introduces direct non-stop flights between Dubai and Dar es Salaam, putting an end to the service which originally operated via Nairobi," it added. Currently, Dubai's trade with Africa is worth over 27 million dollars.

Emirates launched its operations in October 1985 with two leased aircraft. Today the Airline operates in 85 destinations with 92 aircraft. The Airline uses a mixed fleet comprising Boeing and Airbus aircraft. At Dubai 2005 International Aerospace Exhibition, Emirates announced firm orders for 42 B777 aircraft to be powered by GE90 jet engines, in a deal worth 9.7 billion dollars. The airline has also placed an order for 45 airbus A380 ultramodern Jumbo aircraft.

Emirates' current order book stands at 123 aircraft with a total value of 33 billon dollars. Emirates group, wholly owned by the Dubai government, announced, record net profit of 762 million dollars for the financial year ended March 2006. The group's total revenue has increased by 27 percent to 6.6 billion compared to last year

Lions Miss Out On Country's Tourism Growth

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Despite Africa recording the World's fastest tourist growth for the second year running according to the UNWTO, and Ethiopia showing good progress too, one of the East Africa country's zoos has had to poison rare lions to make ends meet.

Lion Zoo in Addis Ababa has had to kill the country's treasured Abyssinian Lions as entrance fees did not cover the running costs.
Zoo administrator Muhedin Abdulaziz said the park only received $5000 at the gate, while it cost $6000 to run the zoo.

The zoo was poisoning the lions and selling the bodies to taxidermists for $170 each.

Growth in the tourism segment has not been enough to save the lions at the 58-year-old zoo. Unless the zoo quickly invests to ensure that more tourists visited the zoo, through marketing and facilty upgrades, the Abyssinian Lions may in the future only be found on national coins and statues.

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