Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airline speaks as Obasanjo, 393 passengers escape plane crash in Lagos

Ethiopian Airlines, on Wednesday confirmed that its ET901/29 flight made an aborted landing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo escaped what could have ended as a plane crash in Lagos on Wednesday. According to NAN, the ex-president was among 393 passengers who were on board the aircraft that found […]

Trump Policies Hinder Efforts to Repatriate Dadaab Refugees

The UN refugee agency has noted that U.S. immigration officials recently rejected all 56 of the Somali cases in Dadaab -the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya- that had been proposed for resettlement in the U.S. By contrast, they added, Sweden approved all but two of the 29 Somali Dadaab cases it had been forwarded […]

World Bank Agrees to Finance Kenyatta’s Affordable Housing Dream

The multilateral lender says the U.S.$250 million will enable the country to set up the Kenya Mortgage Refinance Corporation, to be owned by the state, commercial banks and financial co-operatives. President Uhuru Kenyatta has said provision of affordable housing is one of his four key priority areas in his second term and aims at providing […]