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Stained-glass windows line the facade of Rimbaud’s House, a mansion-turned-museum in Harar named after famed French poet and one-time local resident Arthur Rimbaud.
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Singapore’s R&D Ecosystem Scientists and inventors living and learning together.
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A Poet’s Dream The literary allure of Harar Jugol.
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8 NEWS Announcing new destinations, new Dreamliners and a new award.
Eleven-year-old Zuriel Oduwole dreams big for the African continent.
Panorama
Restoring Grand-Bassam to its charming past.
14 AROUND ADDIS The capital’s dazzling jewelry hotspots. 16 COMMERCE + CAPITAL Updates in the world of coins and currency. 18 DIPLOMACY + DEVELOPMENT The African Union Agenda 2063. 20 EVENTS + EXCURSIONS Glamping destinations across the globe. 22 HOTELS + HOTSPOTS Coffee culture in Ethiopia and Italy.
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World Cup passion in action. 66 THE ARTS
Vienna’s Spanish Riding School carries longstanding traditions onward.
Fly Ethiopian 71 TRAVEL TIPS In-flight exercises to keep you limber, helpful pointers for travel to Ethiopia, and a quick introduction to Amharic.
24 STYLE + SUBSTANCE The style of Tokyo.
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80 SALES AND AGENTS OFFICES
55 CUISINE
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Milan’s appetizing aperitivo.
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85 MOVIES, TV, AUDIO 94 PUZZLES
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Welcome Aboard Esteemed Customers,
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he summer season is in full swing. Since midJune, the world has been entirely captivated by the FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the mastery of the beautiful game by our African teams. We at Ethiopian have played our part by providing teams and fans with a dream of a ride to Brazil aboard our 787 Dreamliner, with all of its state-of-the-art amenities. Of course, our commitment to offer you the best onboard comfort will continue well beyond the FIFA World Cup. We will be adding two more 787s in July alone, bringing the total number in our fleet to 10. With the largest 787 fleet in Africa, we will be able to greatly expand our number of 787 destinations, including flights to London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, São Paulo, Harare, Lusaka, Johannesburg, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul. Beyond our fleet modernization and expansion program, we are also significantly enhancing our onboard service with a completely revamped menu, which includes quality Ethiopian wine produced by the Castel Group in accordance with the highest international standards. Not leaving out our economy-class customers, we will be introducing Ethiopian culinary delights for our longhaul routes, to give you a taste of our African-flavored Ethiopian hospitality. If the small glimpse we give you of our national dishes leaves you wanting more, you should make Ethiopia your next holiday destination. Our national staple food, injera, is getting a lot of global attention — and for all the right reasons. Made out of teff, a natural, organic and 100-percent gluten-free grain, it is gaining much deserved international acclaim for both its nutritional value and its unique taste. In Ethiopia, you will get the chance to taste the whole range of our rich, diverse and unique cuisine. Our extensive network covering five continents and more than 80 international destinations is there to take you from your doorstep to the four corners of Ethiopia and beyond. We added Kano (Nigeria) to our fast-growing network in May and Vienna (Austria) in June. Madrid, Tokyo, Jakarta and Manila will also be added in the coming months. From wherever you are coming, it will be our pleasure to serve you. Thank you for flying with us. We will continue to work hard every day to earn your confidence. Have a pleasant flight!
ለፈው ሰኔ ወር አጋማሽ ጀምሮ በብራዚል በተካሄደው የፊፋ የአለም ዋንጫ ላይ አፍሪካን የወከሉት ቡድኖች ባሳዩት የአጨዋወት ብቃት የአለም ህዝብ በሙሉ አድናቆቱን ሰጥቷል። የአፍሪካና የሀገሩ ኩራት የሆነው አየር መንገዳችሁ ያለበትን ሀላፊነት በመወጣት ረገድ የበኩሉን ሚና እየተጫወተ ሲሆን ፣ የአምስቱን ሀገራት ቡድን ተጫዋቾችና ደጋፊዎቻቸውን እንዲሁም ከፍተኛ የኳስ ፍቅር ያለውን ኢትዮጵያዊ ወገናችንን ጨምሮ ፍፁም ምቾት ባለው ዘመናዊው ቦይንግ 787 ድሪምላይነር አውሮፕላኖቻችን በማጓጓዝ አፍሪካዊና ብሔራዊ ግዴታውን ተወጥቷል። አየር መንገዳችሁ ከአፍሪካ አየር መንገዶች ብልጫ ያለውን የአለም አቀፍ መዳረሻ ጣቢያዎች በማካተት የበርካታ ቦይንግ 787 ድሪምላይነር አውሮፕላን ባለቤት ሲሆን ፣ በአሁን ወቅት በዚሁ አውሮፕላን ከሚበርባቸው መስመሮች ውስጥ ለንደን፣ ፓሪስ፣ ብራስልስ፣ ፍራንክፈርት፣ ሳኦ ፖሎ፣ ሃራሬ፣ ሉሳካ፣ ጆሀንስበርግ፣ ዋሽንግተን ዲሲ፣ ቶሮንቶ፣ ሻንጋይ፣ ሆንግ ኮንግ እና ሴዎል ይገኙበታል። በሐምሌ ወር የተረከብናቸውን 2 አውሮፕላኖች ጨምሮ ባጠቃላይ 10 ድሪምላይነሮች ያሉን ሲሆን፣ ወደፊትም በነዚህ አውሮፕላኖች የምናደርጋቸውን የበረራ መስመሮቻችንን ቁጥር ለመጨመር ዕቅድ ይዘናል። የአውሮፕላኖቻችንን ቁጥር ከመጨመርና ዘመናዊ ከማድረግ ባለፈ በበረራ ወቅት የምንሰጠው አገልግሎት ፍፁም ደረጃውን የጠበቀ እንዲሆን ከምናደርገው ጥረት ባሻገር፤ ለመንገደኞቻችን አለም አቀፍ ደረጃውን የጠበቀና በኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ የተመረተ የወይን መጠጥ ምርጫ ለማቅረብ ችለናል። ከብዙዎቹ ጣፋጭ እና ተወዳጅ የባህል ምግቦቻችን መካከል አንዱ የሆነው እና ከጤፍ የሚዘጋጀው እንጀራ በሳይንስ በተረጋገጠው “ግሉተን” ከተባለው ንጥረ ነገር ፍፁም ነፃ በሆነው ተፈጥሮአዊ የምግብ ይዘቱ እና በጣዕሙ በመላው አለም ዙሪያ እና በበርካቶች ዘንድ ተፈላጊነቱ እየጨመረ ይገኛል. የኢኮኖሚ ክፍል መንገደኞቻችንም የተሻለ አገልግሎት እንድታገኙ በማሰብ በረጃጅም የበረራ መስመሮቻችን ላይ በቅርቡ ባህላዊ ምግቦችን ማስተናገድ ስለምንጀምር በምትወዱት ኢትዮጵያዊ መስተንግዷችን እንደምትደሰቱ እርግጠኞች ነን። አየር መንገዳችሁ በአምስት ክፍለ አለማት ባሉ ከ80 በላይ በሚሆኑ መዳረሻዎች በእንክብካቤና በምቾት እንድትጓዙ ያለውን ፍላጐት በማጠናከር ባለፈው ግንቦት ወር ወደ ናይጄሪያ ካኖ ከተማ እንዲሁም በሰኔ ወር ወደ ኦስትሪያ ቪየና አዳዲስ በረራዎች ጀምሯል። በሚቀጥሉት ጥቂት ወራት ውስጥ ደግሞ ወደ ማድሪድ፣ ቶክዮ፣ ጃካርታ፣ እና ማኒላ መብረር እንጀምራለን። ትልቁና ዋነኛው ፍላጐታችን እናንተን መንገዳኞቻችንን በቅንነትና በትህትና ማገልገል ነው። ከእኛ ጋር ስለበረራችሁ እናመሰግናለን። በእኛም ላይ እምነት እንዲኖራችሁ ለማድረግ ቀንና ሌሊት ጠንክረን እንሰራለን። መልካም በረራ!
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Ethiopian Airlines — NOW DIRECT FROM ADDIS TO SHANGHAI
Ethiopian Airlines also recently announced the commencement of flights to: Kano, Nigeria — the airline’s fourth destination in Nigeria, following Abuja, Enugu and Lagos. Four weekly flights to and from the northern city will provide passengers with the best possible connections to such destinations as Jeddah, Dubai, Cairo, Khartoum, Beirut, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Riyadh and Mumbai.
Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest-growing and most-profitable airline in Africa, is pleased to announce the commencement of daily services to Shanghai, China, as of late March. Shanghai is the largest city in China and the country’s economic and financial hub, with growing ties to the continent of Africa. Ethiopian Airlines passengers traveling to Shanghai will enjoy direct flights from Addis aboard the B787 Dreamliner, which offers the best onboard comfort of any aircraft. Shanghai is the fourth Ethiopian Airlines destination in China, a continent that the airline has served continuously for more than 40 years. “Today,” said Ethiopian CEO Tewolde GebreMariam, “with 28 weekly direct flights, we offer the best connectivity from four major cities in China to 48 cities in Africa and two cities in Brazil. “Our network in China is growing very fast,” he noted, “along with the growth of trade, investment and tourism between China and Africa.” A multiple award winner in 2013, Ethiopian was voted “Best Airline in Africa” by the African Airlines Association and by the Passenger Choice Awards. It was also recognized for the “Best Staff Service in Africa” by SKYTRAX and as the “Best Business Class Airline in Africa” by Chinese travelers.
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he first airline outside of Japan to take delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Ethiopian Airlines recently added an eighth Dreamliner to its fleet. The airline will take delivery of another two 787s in 2014. The Boeing 787 is the most technologically advanced commercial aircraft in the world, providing customers the best possible onboard comfort with greatly reduced noise, higher ceilings, the biggest windows in the sky, higher humidity, unique lighting and an overall enhanced travel experience. Ethiopian B787s can be enjoyed on routes to Africa, Brazil, Europe, the United States, Canada and China. “As Africa’s flagship carrier,” said Ethiopian Group CEO Tewolde GebreMariam, “Ethiopian has always been and remains the aviation
technology leader on the continent by availing the most advanced aircraft to its esteemed customers. “We currently have the youngest fleet in Africa, with an average age of 7 years,” he added, noting the airline’s 15year strategic plan to continue to expand and modernize its fleet in order to provide maximum customer comfort.
“Ethiopian has always been and remains the aviation technology leader on the continent.”
AIRLINE TRAINING SERVICE PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
Ethiopian Aviation Academy has been voted the 2014 “Airline Training Services Provider of the Year” by the African Airlines Association. Recognized for its cost-effective and extensive training support to other African airlines, the academy received the award during a gala dinner and awards ceremony of the Annual Aviation Suppliers and Stakeholders Convention, held in Nairobi earlier this year. “We are very honored by this recognition from sisterly African airlines and our association,” said Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam, “for our continued efforts to provide world-class aviation training to our beloved continent.” He noted that, historically, one-third of the academy’s graduates have originated from other African countries. Already the largest aviation academy in Africa, Ethiopian Aviation Academy plans to increase its intake capacity from 1,000 trainees each year to more than 4,000 by 2025, in hopes of providing skilled aviation professionals for the entire African airline industry. Ethiopian Aviation Academy has recently been transformed into a profit center of the Ethiopian Airlines Group, providing training to pilots, aviation technicians and cabin crew, as well as marketing and finance professionals. It is certified by the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the European Aviation Safety Agency and the IOSA-IATA Safety Audit.
Ethiopian Aviation Academy’s managing director, Mr. Samuel Assefa (at right), receives the award during the Annual Aviation Suppliers and Stakeholders Convention in early May.
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She is also the managing editor of Good Neighbors USA, an international humanitarian nonprofit supporting children’s education in more than 30 countries around the world. Read her profile of 11-year-old Zuriel Oduwole on p. 58. Most memorable accommodations while traveling: “Sharing a cabin with my family in the woods of Yosemite.” AMANDA LEIGH LICHTENSTEIN is a poet and writer from Chicago, USA. She currently works on arts and cultural development in East Africa, promoting creative expression and dialogue. See her story on Harar’s literary allure on p. 44. Most memorable accommodations while traveling: “Sleeping in an ornately carved wooden Zanzibari canopy bed with inlaid gilded mirrors and peacock-painted glass.”
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in Hong Kong. She was editor for WHERE Singapore magazine and has been freelancing for print and online publications across Asia, the U.K. and North America for the last 17 years. Read her story about Singapore’s research-and-lifestyle hub, one-north, on p. 26. Most memorable accommodations while traveling: “On the top deck of a wooden phinisi, sailing from Sulawesi to Bali in rough seas; looking up at the stars and getting spritzed by ocean sprays.”
TOM SYKES’ journalism has appeared in the London Times, London Telegraph, New African, Philippines Free Press and many other publications around the globe. Having lived and worked in India, the Philippines and Malaysia, he is currently based in the south of England and is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Portsmouth. See “Côte d’Ivoire’s Colonial Capital,” on p. 62. Most memorable accommodations while traveling: “The critterfestooned beach on Tioman Island, which I was forced to sleep on after losing the keys to my hostel room.”
ELIZABETH ZACH is a writer based in Berlin, Germany. Her writing on travel, arts and culture appears in The New York Times, The San Jose Mercury News and London’s The Independent. See “Defending the Age of Empire,” on p. 66. Most memorable accommodations while traveling: The Hotel des Indes in The Hague. “Dutch Resistance fighters, incredibly, hid several Jewish families in the attic while Nazi officers used the building as headquarters; Eisenhower later rented the entire second floor for military meetings, but — best of all — Mata Hari's house is down the street, and she used to dance in the hotel's grand ballroom.”
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KPJ NETWORK OF HOSPITALS • KPJ Johor Specialist Hospital (JSH) • KPJ Ipoh Specialist Hospital (ISH) • KPJ Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital (APSH) • KPJ Damansara Specialist Hospital (DSH) • KPJ Selangor Specialist Hospital (SgorSH) • KPJ Seremban Specialist Hospital (SSH)
• KPJ Perdana Specialist Hospital (PdSH) • KPJ Kajang Specialist Hospital (KjgSH) • KPJ Penang Specialist Hospital (PngSH) • Kedah Medical Centre (KMC) • KPJ Tawakkal Specialist Hospital (TSH) • KPJ Puteri Specialist Hospital (PSH)
KPJ INTERNATIONAL NETWORK • Kuantan Specialist Hospital (KSH) • Taiping Medical Centre (TMC) • Damai Specialist Hospital (DmSH) • Kuching Specialist Hospital (KcSH) • Sentosa Medical Centre (Sentosa KL) • Kluang Utama Specialist Hospital (KUSH) • KPJ Sabah Specialist Hospital (SbSH) • Sibu Specialist Medical Centre (SSMC)
INDONESIA • Rumah Sakit Medika Permata Hijau, Jakarta • Rumah Sakit Bumi Serpong Damai, Jakarta AUSTRALIA • JETA GARDENS, Brisbane (Retirement and Aged-Care Resort)
• KPJ Klang Specialist Hospital (KlgSH)
KPJ HEALTHCARE EDUCATION
• Sri Manjung Specialist Centre (SMSC) • Pasir Gudang Specialist Hospital (PGSH)
BANGLADESH • Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialised Hospital & Nursing College, Dhaka KPJ Healthcare University College (KPJUC) • Main Campus (Nilai, N.Sembilan) • Branch Campus (Johor Bahru, Johor) • Branch Campus (Penang)
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Events + Excursions
GLAMPING No need for backpacks or sleeping bags: Sir Richard Branson’s new Kenyan safari “camp” douses the camping experience in extravagance. From candlelit dinners amid the bush to luxurious spa treatments and twice-daily game drives, Mahali Mzuri pampers guests from sunup to sundown.
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Around Addis
ETHIOPIAN
Be dazzled by the capital’s jewelry hotspots.
GEMS
GENET SOUVENIR
Don’t miss this treasure among the hundreds of Ethiopian souvenir shops in the post office area. Beyond its unassuming facade, Genet Souvenir carries everything from carved wooden chalices and golden bangles to brightly colored traditional jewelry and clothing — making it a one-stop shop for the fashionista on your list.
PARSEGHIAN
Owned by an Armenian family with a passion for beauty and style, Parseghian is known for its silver and stone pieces. Contemporary designs combine with elements of traditional Ethiopian jewelry — think azure and amber stones, pebbled silver, and intricate pendants with inlaid silver crosses. And as they’ve been crafted by hand since 1875, Parseghian’s creations boast more than a century of success behind their designs.
KING SILVER
If you’re in the market for silver jewelry with a modern twist, stop by one of King Silver’s many locations across Addis. With the variety of their designs, you can pick up a pair of subtle droplet earrings for your wife, a delicate medallion for your mother and a statement ring for your sister, all in one place.
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TEKLU DESTA
For a true gold rush, a trip to the capital’s oldest and largest jewelry store is a must. Over the last six decades, Teklu Desta has charmed customers with its 18- and 21-karat gold selections, ranging from traditional Ethiopian to modern styles. With additional services like custom jewelry design and filigree work, engraving and repairs, it’s no surprise that Teklu Desta has set the city’s gold-standard.
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YEHEYIS
Passed down from father to son, Yeheyis (named after the father) specializes in family jewels of the precious and semiprecious type. Here — one of the few jewelers in Addis that sells precious stones — connoisseurs can find handmade jewelry with olive-green peridot, skyblue topaz and multihued zircon.
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Come and visit Ries Engineering Share Company for all your vehicle & after sales needs, Saris area, Debrezeit road or our showroom in front of Nyala Motors, P.O. Box 1116, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: +251-91-1515344/+251-11-8-400617, Fax: +251-11-4420667, E-mail: ries.psd@ethionet.et, Website: www.riesethiopia.com
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Commerce + Capital
MAKING CENTS Updates in the world of coins and currency.
CURRENCY CONTROVERSY
The first decentralized digital currency — called Bitcoin — continues to raise questions. Bought and spent online, and not associated with a central bank or physical money, bitcoins are used around the world by anyone who purchases them at the going exchange rate. Those in favor of the currency say that, with its low fees and efficient, “lightweight” nature, it promises to promote the global market. Wary others see the danger in the private, anonymous nature of bitcoin transactions, which make exchanges hard to trace and enforce by law. Not helping the virtual currency's case: A glitch earlier this year led to millions of dollars of stolen funds.
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LOSING CENTS, SAVING MONEY
Canada is in the early stages of a six-year phase-out of its pennies, begun just last year. When the finance minister first announced that the country would go penniless, he cited that the government would save money over time, given that each coin cost 0.6 cents more than its face value to produce. The news was met with approval, giving the Bank of Canada a needed boost after word got out in 2013 that the C$20 depicted a foreign maple leaf.
MONEY TALKS
Late last year, the heads of state of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda met to discuss and further the East African Monetary Union Protocol — an arrangement that will unite them with a common currency. The effort will remove the clunkiness of exchange rates, with hopes of leading to greater travel and business within the region. The transition, however, is expected to take 10 years to accomplish, with the single currency to be introduced during the final phase.
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DON’T BE FOOLED
Recently redesigned with two new security features, the US$100 bill is now harder to counterfeit. Running down the center of the bill is a 3-D security ribbon, woven into the paper, with a pattern that shifts from bells to 100s as you tilt it. Toward the bottom of the bill, a symbol of a bell inside an inkwell also morphs as it’s moved, changing color from copper to green and seeming to disappear. In the works since 2003, the bill costs five cents more than its predecessors to produce.
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AFRICAN
UNION AGENDA 2063
Twitter: @auagenda2063
In January of this year, preparations for the 2014 African Union Heads of State Summit started with a retreat organized by Ethiopia’s minister of foreign affairs. This event, billed as the First AU Ministerial Retreat, brought together all of Africa’s foreign ministers and took place in the Ethiopian city of Bahir Dar, on the beautiful shores of Lake Tana. The purpose of the retreat was to review and discuss the African Union’s Agenda 2063: an initiative to outline a strategic vision and plan for the continent over the coming 50 years. The outcome document emphasized the globally acknowledged fact that Africa’s economic and social progress is bound to increase significantly by 2063. This was expressed by Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chair of the AU Commission, in the form of an “email from the future,” which she presented to the assembly. In this letter, Dlamini-Zuma heralded a united “Confederation of African States” as having become the world’s thirdlargest economy, overcome conflicts and accepted Swahili as a lingua franca. The gathered ministers agreed that this vision could be realized through hard work and a well-planned strategy implemented by governments, civil society organizations, the private sector, and other stakeholders in the economic and social development of the continent.
YouTube: youtube.com/user/ AUCommission
Visit selamta.co/agenda2063 to read Dr. Dlamini-Zuma’s address in its entirety.
IN SUMMARY: WHAT IS THE AGENDA 2063?
A vision and action plan for the progress of Africa over the next five decades.
WHY 50 YEARS?
WHERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AGENDA 2063:
On the web: agenda2063.au.int Facebook: facebook.com/ AfricanUnionCommission
Agenda 2063 was established in the context of last year’s 50th-anniversary celebration of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (the precursor to today’s African Union). According to the Agenda 2063 website, “Agenda 2063 would be a rolling plan of 25 years, 10 years, 5 years and short-term action plans.”
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A vision and plan for Africa’s future.
Elilly International Hotel is a five-star property that offers hospitality with a touch of warmth and service of an international standard to meet and exceeds customers’ expectations. The hotel is strategically located just a few steps away from the UNECA’s main entrance, with perfect access to historical landmarks, major government and international organizations, traditional shopping centers and is only 3.8 km from Bole International Airport. • 154 luxury rooms with complimentary high-speed internet service and free shuttle service to and from the airport. • Seven well-equipped contemporary meeting rooms, five bars and 4 restaurants, among which one is dedicated to serve its guests 24/7. • Modern spa facility with high-tech gym equipment. • And much more ...
Your first choice in Hospitality!
For reservation and any enquiry contact us through: Tel: +251 115 58 77 77/70/73 // Mobile: 0922728318/19/20/21 Fax: +251 115 58 52 00 // Email:info@elillyhotel.com www.elillyhotel.com
Elilly International Hotel Kirkos Sub city, Kebele 17/18 P.O. Box 29228 Kazanchis Business District, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Events + Excursions
INTO THE WILD Forget about schlepping your tent and cooking your own grub. These “glamping” destinations take the camping experience to luxe levels.
BANGKOK TREE HOUSE
MAHALI MZURI
WILD LUXURY
Bangkok, Thailand
Narok, Kenya
Norfolk, England
LUXE
Located in the heart of urban Bangkok yet freed from the city’s trappings, this oasis is only accessible by foot, bike or boat. With a chlorine-free pool, outdoor showers and organic produce grown on-site then cooked with solar power, the treetop getaway is just right for travelers who don’t mind going rugged: One “nest” isn’t much more than an open-air platform, with a bamboo bed, canopy and fabric curtains — all the better for seeing the stars. bangkoktreehouse.com
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LUXE
Mahali Mzuri can hardly claim to make visitors “rough it.” Instead, guests luxuriate inside tented suites boasting spacious bedrooms, en-suite bathrooms and verandahs overlooking the African landscape. When lured from their retreats, guests can pamper themselves with relaxing spa treatments and experience the continent’s big beasts on game drives. (The site sits along the path of the Great Migration of wildebeest, gazelles, zebra and other animals.)
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Efficient, safari-style tents meet the lush English countryside through this familyfriendly outfit. While the tented lodges (which sleep between six and 10 people) open to the wild with roll-up flaps, their interiors look a lot like home, with wood floors, cozy furniture, dining tables and cooking ranges. Plus, there’s good news for roaming youngsters: The beach and countryside are just a skip away. wildluxury.co.uk
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Hotels + Hotspots
HOT COFFEE SPOTS
Whether you like your coffee dark or light, full-strength or decaf, with cream or without, you can find a good cup just about anywhere you land. If you're looking to go beyond the Starbucks experience, though, check out these coffee hotspots for new ways to savor the flavor.
Learn about coffee by tracing its footsteps across Ethiopia. Begin with sightseeing and traditional cuisine in Addis Ababa, then travel via four-wheel drive through Jimma, Bonga, Makira, Kaffa and Tepi, enjoying beautiful landscapes, interactions with the local people and visits to historic landmarks along the way. Coffee comes alive at Bebeka, the country’s oldest and largest coffee plantation. There, you’ll experience the entire process from seedling selection to export. Plan to visit during the country’s dry season, from October through May. fanosethiopiatours.com, bebekaplantation.com
Bole Sub City Wereda 03 P.O.Box 1909 Code 1110 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: +251 011 667 2024/011 667 2002 + 251 011 667 2060/011 667 2052 Fax: +251 011 667 2032 E-mail: info@reliancehotelapartment.com www.reliancehotelapartement.com
RELIANCE HOTEL APARTMENT welcomes you to Addis Ababa the capital city of Africa. Whether you are here for business or pleasure, stay at the Reliance Hotel Apartment and make the most of the ideal location just next to the airport (situated on the elegant bole road beside the millennium exhibition hall) with easy access to all the major attractions in the city whilst still providing the tranquility of home.
Rooms
Reliance Hotel Apartment offers 32 elegant rooms on its 6 floors with free high speed internet access. Each room has been carefully designed to provide a homely and comfortable environment. The most prestigious of which are the presidential and corner suites which open out onto the terraces.
Room Types
• Presidential Suit • Corner Suits • Standard Rooms
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BEBEKA, ETHIOPIA
Amenities & Facilities • Kitchenette • 24 hrs room service • Free wi-fi internet • Electronic safe • In-house satellite TV • Fridge • Laundry service • Telephone
• Cribs/infant bed • Complimentary airport transportation • Complimentary breakfast buffet • Free gym service within walking distance
Restaurant & Bar
Our Radiance Restaurant and bar is located by the lobby and hosts generous American buffet breakfast as well as à la carte service for lunch and dinner. Our bar serves a wide range of drinks as well as a variety of cocktails.
Book-Stay-Be Rewarded
WHEN IN ROME . . . A few tips for fitting in: ROME
The scene: At a traditional “coffee bar” (not a “café”or “coffee shop”) What to say: Caffè = black espresso; caffè latte = espresso with hot or cold milk; schiuma = foam, often artfully poured
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ROME, ITALY Ethiopia may lay claim to coffee's origins, but Italy elevated the beverage to an entirely new level. Across Rome, Italians crowd in small bars for tiny, rich cups of espresso and foamy cappuccinos (named after the region's Capuchin monks), served by seriously artful and skilled baristas. Sant'Eustachio il Caffè, located near the famed Pantheon, has served the good stuff since 1938, as its original mosaic paving and furnishings attest. Today, customers still flock for the espresso, always sweetened and made out of sight to protect the coveted blend and barista magic. Plus, its commitment to selling primarily fair-trade coffee makes everything a little sweeter. Try the organic brew from Sidama Union, Ethiopia — a perfect blending of the two coffee cultures. santeustachioilcaffe.it/en
How to sip: Always pay first, and try to finish your espresso in two to three sips while standing at the bar. ETHIOPIA
The scene: At a traditional coffee ceremony, an expression of hospitality What to say: Buna = coffee; jebena = the tall pot used to serve the brew; abole, tonna and bereka = the three ceremonial rounds of brewing (the final of which is considered to be a blessing on the guest) How to sip: To honor your host, drink at least three cups, one from each round. (Don't worry, these cups are on the smaller side.)
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Style + Substance
THE STYLE OF TOKYO FOR A LITTLE RUNWAY ACTION:
Twice a year, Tokyo’s fashionistas are treated to cutting-edge creations from Asia and beyond. In the next installment of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, October 14-19, more than 40 brands and designers such as Missoni and Lamarck will send their spring and summer collections down the catwalk.
FOR DESIGN INSPIRATION:
FOR A FASHION-FORWARD EXPERIENCE: Brilliantly dyed and manipulated hair, overblown makeup, anime-inspired looks — these exaggerated styles are the norm in the Harajuku area, Japan’s center for youth fashion. But the shopping, eating and people-watching hotspot isn’t just for youngsters; recently, highstyle shops like Louis Vuitton and Prada have moved in as well.
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The island nation is famous for its denim. Be on the lookout for these top brands:
KAPITAL Edgy, urban designs in which jeans are distressed, blasted, patched and quilted. kapital.jp
BIG JOHN Featuring a range of washes with a structured, workwear-meetsurban look. bigjohn-jeans.com
FOR ANALOG INDULGENCE:
Calling Daikanyama Tsutaya Books “a bookstore” is an understatement. A swank complex of three buildings intersected by a main walkway, so-called “T-Site” is a “library in the woods,” with trees enclosing the modernist structures. Inside, six different wings form a massive treasure trove of specialty books, vintage magazines, DVDs and vinyl, and stationery.
EVISU Traditionally made denim famed for artistic, handpainted details. evisu.com
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The brainchild of fashion, product and package designers, 21_21 Design Sight is Japan’s pioneer design museum. With exhibits that bring everyday subjects like chocolate, nature and even ourselves into focus, the museum uses design as the lens to help visitors see the world more clearly (as its name suggests). Plus, the building — all clean lines, sharp angles and sweeping surfaces — is a masterpiece, created by architect Tadao Ando as a representation of Japan.
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Singapore’s
BY M I CH E LE KOH M OR OLLO
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What this Southeast Asian island nation lacks in size and natural resources, it makes up for with a plan for scientific and technological progress.
INNOVATION IS THE BUZZWORD NOITAVON OF THE 21ST E HT CENTURY... D ROWZ Z TS12 E HT
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Nations across the globe know that progress in the realms of science and technology is essential to keeping their economies robust and attractive to international talent and investors. ¶ Over the last decade or two, biotech neighborhoods around the world such as Toronto’s Discovery District, Boston’s Kendall Square and Hyderabad’s Genome Valley have sought to take research and development to new heights, integrating laboratory facilities with residential and leisure infrastructure. As they blaze new trails in science and technology, they also increase jobs, revenue and prestige for the cities they call home. Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City, which was habitable as of October 2010, has followed this blueprint, with plans to be one of the most environmentally sustainable R&D communities in the world. Nairobi began construction of Konza Technological City in January 2013 and hopes to announce completion around 2030. Nusajaya’s Central Hub, Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park and Geneva’s Health Valley are all also part of this new wave of highly planned, specialized R&D zones. Within the last 15 years, Singapore has likewise entered into the planned intersection of science, technology and lifestyle with its own biotech neighborhood called one-north, designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Zaha Hadid. Unlike many other developed nations, this island-state has no natural resources, so the impetus for a specialized, knowledge-based economy is vital.
Since the 1960s, the manufacturing of electronic goods has led Singapore’s economic growth, contributing to 5.2 percent of its GDP in 2012. However, Singapore is facing increasingly stiff competition in this sector — from neighboring Southeast Asian countries and farther afield — and the city-state might not be able to maintain its dominance in electronics for long. To stay competitive, it recognizes the need to venture into more advanced fields of manufacturing and development. The Singaporean government is therefore prioritizing development of its chemicals and biotechnology industries. The government raised the R&D budget for science, technology and enterprise by 20 percent until 2015, says Terence Gan, director of electronics at the Economic Development Board Singapore, “with the aim of making Singapore one of the most research-intensive countries in the world.”
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CITY WITHIN THE CITY
Imagine a microcosm of scientists, inventors and academics from around the world living and learning together in a futuristic R&D neighborhood. At one-north, sleek skyscrapers, luxury apartment blocks and a mall that looks like a spacecraft coexist with pockets of old colonial houses in a landscape of hilly parkland. Because the neighborhood is a young one, there is much more physical space, peace and quiet here than in other parts of Singapore. The roads feel wider and less congested, and the greenery around the shiny new buildings softens up what could otherwise be a very futuristic and slightly roboticlooking environment. JTC Corporation, the government body responsible for the neighborhood’s development, launched one-north in 2001 as a “city within a city” — a research business park with an exciting work-live-play-learn environment that would attract global R&D activities and talents. “The 200-hectare site is at the heart of a technology corridor [that will be] developed in phases over a period of 40 years,” says a JTC Corporation spokesperson. At present, the built landscape consists of three distinct building clusters: Biopolis, Fusionopolis and the soon-to-be-opened Mediapolis. Biopolis is home to biomedical and life-science government institutes such as A*Star (Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research) and private companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and P&G. Here, public-sector institutes sit side-by-side with corporate labs, fostering a culture of collaboration. The buildings that form the Biopolis cluster even have scientific names: Chromos, Helios and Genome, for example. Currently, more than 4,000 scientists from all corners of the world carry out research at Biopolis. Dr. Kathikeyan Narayanan, a senior research scientist at the A*Star Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, lives in one-north. “The researchers
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or scientists here are from different parts of the world — mostly Europe, China, Japan and India,” he says, “and this diversity helps in the creativity.” Dr. Narayanan, who is an Indian citizen, explains that scientists from other countries come to onenorth because of the substantial and sustainable support from the Singapore government. The government grants give them more freedom to pursue new research projects, he says, and the remuneration packages offered by companies are also enticing. “In most cases, housing will be covered for at least six years,” he says, “and for scientists with children, their children’s education expenses will be paid for as well.” Home to more than 2,000 researchers, Fusionopolis brings infocomm technology, science and engineering together with tenants like Autodesk, Seiko Instruments and the Media Development Authority of Singapore. A selfcontained development to be completed later this year, Fusionopolis includes everything from a supermarket and a theater to restaurants, gardens and serviced apartments. The residents will even have their own mass rapid transit station. Mediapolis — slated to open in 2020 — will house private media companies like Lucasfilms and Infinite Studios as well Singapore’s national broadcasting network, Mediacorp. Also in the pipeline for the second phase of one-north’s development is a fourth cluster for electronics and emerging industries. Altogether, more than 7,000 researchers within one-north are granted access to state-of-the-art facilities, specialized services and infrastructure. According to the Economic Development Board,
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such access allows companies to cut their R&D costs significantly and achieve their goals more rapidly. Higher-learning institutes such as The National University of Singapore, Singapore Polytechnic and the Singapore Science Park are all located in close proximity, further enhancing one-north’s academic and discovery-oriented character. The lifestyle component to the neighborhood
presents itself in the form of residential areas like Wessex Estate and Nepal Hill, where Unilever’s Four Acres global leadership development center is located, and Rochester Park — a chic restaurant and bar enclave with a business hotel, condominium and shopping malls. The auditorium of Star Vista, a 15-story mall, welcomes a 30,000-strong church congregation each Sunday.
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This coexistence of academia with industry, as well as the vibrant mix of international researchers, first drew scientist Shigeki Sugii to one-north. An assistant professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Sugii spends his time at Biopolis studying the molecular differences in the stem cells of different types of fat. “Scientists from different disciplines are encouraged to work together,” he says, “which is often the key to invention and innovation. There are ample places here to eat and meet together across different sectors. Researchers in academia are also strongly encouraged to work with businesses, with various support mechanisms available on the campuses.” Beyond the physical infrastructure, JTC also promotes innovation in one-north through its EXCITE (Experiment, Commercialize, and Innovate in a Test-Bedding Experience) program, which provides companies with opportunities to test and showcase their new ideas. Indeed, over cappuccinos at Jimmy Monkey Café or while taking a brainstorming stroll along onenorth park, ideas are formed and new scientific leads reveal themselves. For example, Sugii and his co-workers discovered two cell-surface markers that can be used to identify healthy and unhealthy fat during medical exams. A second research discovery led him and his team to establish a commercial enterprise called LipoStation
Pte Ltd, which specializes in adipose tissue and adipose stem-cell banking services. “Being located in one-north,” Sugii says, “we were able to receive various forms of support from different parties in commercializing and setting up the company. This would not have been so easily accomplished if I were working elsewhere in Singapore.” Dr. Narayanan shares a similar appreciation for the neighborhood, where he enjoys being in close proximity to his work. “I can always visit the laboratory during the weekends to continue my research without having to waste time traveling back and forth. And that’s important as a scientist,” he says, “as you never know when you will be inspired.” Though it may be too soon to tell whether onenorth will indeed help Singapore attain its dream of becoming “the most research-intensive country in the world,” Dr. Narayanan touches on an important element for making that happen. Far more than just a scientific hub, one-north is an incubator for ideas and a place where great minds can meet, play with and — perhaps most importantly — inspire one another.
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An Airbed and Breakfast [
Modern travel accommodations across the globe.
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BY J O D I MACFAR L AN
hen my husband, two friends and I started planning our two-week trip to Europe last year, we were led by two simple desires: partake of great food and wine, and get to know a few locals. We knew that most of our budget would go toward tasting this, that and anything made with truffles, so we expected we’d have to pull back the reins a bit on the quality of our lodging. But that was before we heard of Airbnb.com. Airbnb is a short-term rental service, offering travelers worldwide an alternative means for accommodations — at any price point. Here’s how it works: Property owners (or “hosts”) list their unused spaces online — anything from spare bedrooms and teeny apartments to ample villas and luxurious castles. Travelers looking for a place to stay cull through such listings, categorized by location, availability, type of accommodation and more, and then contact potential hosts to get specific quotes. If both sides are in agreement, the reservation is booked. Following a stay, travelers and hosts review one another online, ensuring that future travelers to that location and hosts of that guest are fully informed before a reservation is confirmed. Since its founding in 2008, Airbnb (short for “an airbed and
breakfast,” as the first iteration of the site offered) has added more than 300,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 192 countries. Guests have booked more than 10 million nights — including the 10 that my party and I spent traversing France and Italy. At each of the six places we rented, we experienced the hospitality of a hotel while enjoying the comforts of a home, all for little more than the cost of a hostel. Thanks to Airbnb, we ended up keeping enough euros in our wallet to fully enjoy the gastronomic delights we were seeking, and we met many an incredible host who enriched our travels: like Walter, the Italian bed-and-breakfast owner who showed us around his family’s 50-year-old vineyard before leaving us with a bottle of his homegrown Barbera; and Robert, who surely spent more on the wine-and-cheese party he threw for us than we spent on our entire stay in the apartment attached to his French countryside cottage. At the end of that European adventure, we returned home begrudgingly (of course) yet satisfied, grateful for every taste savored, site seen, room rented and friend made. And though it’s now been more than a year since we were together, we’ve made sure that our great hosts are aware of the beds available in our own abodes — humble as they may be — and the aging bottles of wine just waiting to be shared.
Airbnb.com includes listings in scores of cities served by Ethiopian Airlines — ranging from the quirky to the opulent — but here are a few of our favorite picks.
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Modern dwelling Toronto, Canada $
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Live the life of an urbanite in this twostory loft, situated at the heart of Toronto’s King West neighborhood. Though just shy of 600 square feet, the open-plan layout, modular furniture and private balcony have an aggrandizing effect on the space — proving the old adage that less is sometimes more.
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Step aboard this charming houseboat for a rather cozy and unique holiday in Paris. With spectacular views of the Eiffel Tower and conveniently located near the iconic Champs Elysées, the “Soleil” offers the classic City of Light experience from an artful, atypical abode.
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Escape to the Mombasa coast for a camping trip unlike any other. This time, your “tent” is a luxurious, open-air private house, boasting beautiful wood furniture, airy breezes and an ocean view. And with your own personal chef on-site to prepare the day’s fresh catch, you’ll camp and eat like kings and queens. selamta.co/ airbnbMombasa
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Embark on a real “wild camping” experience in the middle of a concrete jungle — inside a Native American Teepee, no less. Palm Beach Teepee Village is located on the south side of Hong Kong’s Lantau Island, offering outdoor barbecue stoves, bonfire pits and, most importantly, starry nights.
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Tower above the City of Gold in this luxury apartment along the Dubai Marina. With the clean-lined décor and views of the teal-blue waterfront, you might vow never to descend from your lofty post — until you realize the beach is but a mere 50 meters away. selamta.co/airbnbDubai
The story behind the company’s rapid rise.
Like many a great idea, the concept for Airbnb seemed to lift itself off the ground, accelerating an old trend by catching the tailwinds of the time. It all started in 2007, when Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky decided to open their San Francisco loft to travelers attending a popular graphic-design conference. Knowing that area hotels had all been booked, the roommates figured, Why not offer up our own place, along with a tasty breakfast and local hospitality, to a few friendly strangers? Add in a couple of airbeds, and the seed for Airbnb was sown. But Airbnb is really just the updated version of an old idea, says spokeswoman Sarah Roy, adding that even Chesky’s grandfather used to travel by staying 40
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in people’s homes. Airbnb just took that common concept further through the use of technology. “The difficult economic times we’re going through accelerated the process,” Roy adds. “Airbnb allows people to get extra money for their living expenses and to travel more. The network effect has helped our service become truly international quickly.” And though there are several competitors out there, the company says what makes Airbnb stand apart is the community behind it. “Other sites may borrow our concept or copy our designs,” Roy says, “but the genuine, trusted relationships our community fosters cannot be replicated through a few lines of code.”
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Children play in a labyrinthine alley of Harar Jugol — one of many tucked within the city’s famed wall. The 4-meterhigh structure that surrounds the city helped to sustain its unique language and culture.
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Of the 99 original mosques built by the Harar Kingdom, 82 remain active today.
— the ancient gated labyrinth also known as Harar Jugol — is a city shaped by insularity and exchange, mysticism and magic, faith and history. For centuries, poets have been drawn here as a transcendent outpost where Islamic scholarship and the fine art of leather bookbinding thrived. Once the seat of the Harar Kingdom, this is also where a fiercely defended hive of commercial trade ushered in rare and essential goods to inland Africa. Today, wild spotted hyenas walk peaceably through moon-drenched nights down winding alleyways. During the day, this architectural maze of sun-soaked homes disorients and delights the senses. Colorful markets offer fruit, handmade soaps and silver jewelry while tailors line the narrow streets with their sewing machines. The ghosts of kings, saints, explorers and healers live side by side with the roughly 75,000 residents who refer to themselves as Ge’Usu (“people of the city”) and who call Harar Jugol home. 46
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Harar is the fourth most-holy city of Islam (after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem), founded by Sheikh Aw Abadir and 43 other saints in 940 A.D. Located in the lush green hills of Eastern Ethiopia’s Somal region, the Harar Kingdom built 99 mosques according to the 99 names of God referred to in the Quran. Of those, an estimated 82 remain active today. When Aw Abadir threw down his turban, the power of its impact is said to have created Mount Hakim, cascading above Harar in the distance. And circling the city is a 4-meter-high, rugged limestone wall built between 1551 and 1558, with five gates that correspond to the five pillars of Islam. For centuries, this wall kept invaders at bay while sustaining a rich culture and a unique language. The language — called Ge’Sinan (or Harari) — is a mix of Amharic, Arabic, Afaan Oromo and Somali that’s only spoken within the city walls. Those walls completely sealed out the world until 1855, when the British explorer and poet Sir Richard Burton became the first Westerner to enter. One year earlier, he had secretly visited the holy city of Mecca, where he penned a Sufi poem under a pseudonym that detailed his unique
Harari women’s fashion is characterized by bright head coverings and dresses. Silver bangles (below) are common articles made by local silversmiths.
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French poet Arthur Rimbaud (middle) moved to Harar in 1880. For 11 years, he thrived on the city’s mystical and literary ambiance.
spiritual philosophy. Perhaps sensing Harar’s strong mystical pull, he spent 10 days inside the city and declared that even its walls speak a kind of poetry. Following in Burton’s footsteps, the French “fugitive poet” Arthur Rimbaud arrived in Harar 25 years later, in 1880. He made the old city his home for 11 years as a trader of coffee, arms and incense. Having published A Season in Hell to critical acclaim in 1873, Rimbaud was hailed as the first “modern poet,” adored by surrealists like Andre Breton and French symbolists including Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud’s tumultuous lover. Despite this burgeoning fame, the poet abandoned his decadent life in Europe when he moved to Harar via Aden. Instead, he followed a path of adventure devoid of all ties to his past. Rimbaud’s years in Africa are somewhat shrouded in mystery, but it is in Harar that he found he could still live as a poet — absorbing the city and its people through his very senses — without ever needing to pick up a pen. Instead, he threw himself into Islamic studies as well
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Colored glass panes pop in Rimbaud’s House, an elegant mansion that now functions as a museum.
as dangerous expeditions through the desert with Harari men and their camel caravans. Badri Lemai, one of Harar’s best-known modern poets and singers, is a testament to Harar’s timeless inspiration. Badri lives in a traditional Jugol-style home, with its elevated platforms (representing seating hierarchies), fanciful cushions, ornate rugs and floral enamelware trays that hang proudly on the walls. Surrounded by heaps of books, scattered papers and manuscripts in progress, Badri composes contemporary poetry in English, Amharic and Ge’Sinan. Influenced by international visionaries such as Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X and Kwame Nkurumah, his poems are philosophical gestures, where he asks readers to consider themselves as “giant thinkers in a school of stars.” Badri credits Harar’s ancient Harla roots as the foundation for much of his existential thinking. His grandmother, also a poet, first taught Badri about the Harla philosophy, a pre-Islamic worldview of people known as agile giants and ruled by boastful kings and wizards. The Harla lived in the Harar region in approximately 1200 A.D. and are now considered one of
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Ethiopia’s lost civilizations whose energies still permeate Harar, according to Badri. Poetry in Harar lives inside the laments of Harari folksongs and is woven into the ecstatic praise lyrics heard chanted over the air waves, at local shrines and even as ringtones on local cell phones. The city boasts more than 100 shrines devoted to saints — those of coffee, skies and rain, those who fix what is broken and return what is lost. There is a saint of night and of day, of honey and of hyenas, even a saint who grants peace to “one who has killed a cat.” Ritual relationships with these saints bind all Hararis to the spiritual realm, charging the city with a heightened sense of awareness of worlds within and beyond the here and now. Walking through the winding streets of Jugol, it’s hard to resist the pull of poetry in every direction. From wafting frankincense and roasting Arabica coffee beans, to sunkissed mosques, wailing calls to prayer and candlelit markets, this city unfolds in verse after verse of altered consciousness, lighting a literary match to any poet’s inner fire.
The streets of Jugol are said to feel the push and pull of poetry from every direction.
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One Africa, One Voice
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS
One Africa, One Voice
OVERVIEW Despite a restrictive mandate as an advisory and consultative body, the PAP is continuing to play a key role in promoting democracy , good governance and the harmonisation of laws on the continent. This will lead to more direct investment, development and prosperity for the peoples of Africa. The objectives of the PAP are mainly to promote the principles of human rights, democracy, good governance, peace and security. The PAP is also expected to promote collective selfreliance, strengthen continental solidarity and build a sense of common destiny among the peoples of Africa. STRUCTURE The highest decision-making organ of the PAP is in the Plenary Session. However, the main work which results in the decisions is performed by the 10 Permanent Committees, which meet to oversee the work of the AU. The Bureau of the PAP, which is responsible for the management of the Parliament, is composed of the President and four Vice -Presidents, who represent the five regions of Africa. The current President of the PAP is Hon Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi, from Nigeria. The First Vice President is Hon Roger Nkodo Dang from Cameroon, The Second Vice President is Hon Suilma Hay Emhamed Saleh from Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic , the Third Vice President is Hon Loide Kasingo from Namibia and the Fourth Vice President is Hon Dr. Ashebir Woldegiorgis Gayo from Ethiopia .
Hon Bethel Amadi – President
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The Bureau is supported by a Secretariat comprising of permanent staff members drawn from all over Africa. The Head of the Secretariat is Adv Zwelethu Madasa from South Africa. TRANSFORMATION The PAP is currently undergoing a review process of its protocol. It is hoped that the review will culminate into the assignment of legislative functions to the PAP to make model laws that would contribute to the harmonization of laws and policies of AU member states across the continent. The harmonization of laws and policies in the continent is an important precondition in achieving greater intra-African trade, industrialization, regional economic integration and eradication of poverty.
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A MARVELOUS COUNTRY WITH COUNTLESS INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Burundi is a country with a lot of tourism attractions. Among the natural attractive tourist sites are the wide sandy and sunny beaches, places for nautical sports along the Lake Tanganyika, thermal waters, national reserves with Chimpanzees among other animals, the northern lakes also known as the “bird lakes”, the various waterfalls including the Karera falls, Stanley and Livingstone and dynasty sites to name but a few. Burundi has a diverse and rich cultural legacy that includes not only dances and traditional music but also the famous drummers which are unique in the world. In addition to its beauty, Burundi has a lot of potential that has not yet been exploited. The most promising sectors now opening for investment are agriculture (agro-industries), energy, mining, transport infrastructures (railways, air and maritime transport), hotel facilities,
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tourism (ecotourism, seashore tourism, regional tourism, etc.), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) services, health and education. Burundi’s business environment is in constant improvement with significant progress on all Doing Business indicators. All strategies allowing the investor to flourish have been taken. Burundi is strategically in relation with different Regional Economic Communities by being a member of the East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) which constitutes a market of 450 million consumers.
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MILAN’S APPETIZING APERITIVO More than a cocktail. BY MICHELLE SCHOENUNG
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neighborhood bar or the way it is presented in really chic places.” In Milan, a typical aperitivo buffet might include items such as mini pizzas, focaccia, cold cuts, a raw vegetable tray and a frittata. At the upscale Moschino Hotel, when guests order a drink, a small, bento-type box full of hors d’oeuvres arrives. Some say Milanese aperitivo started at the historic Bar Basso when a bartender accidentally invented the Negroni Sbagliato (sbagliato means “mistake” in Italian) by adding dry spumante instead of gin to the cocktail of sweet vermouth, Campari and an orange slice. Until then, only large hotel bars offered cocktails,
Aperitivo originated as a pre-meal way to “open the stomach” with a medicinal-tasting concoction. Today, though, it is a trendy postwork rite.
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Aperitivo originated as a way to “open the stomach” before a meal with a medicinal-tasting concoction (still offered in bars). Today, though, it is a trendy post-work rite where most bars offer a spread of food starting around 6 p.m. Italians don’t eat their evening meal until 8 p.m. or later, so aperitivo serves as either a snack or a de facto dinner for those who don’t want a heavy meal. “You order a drink, and it typically comes with lots of different things to nibble on,” says Amie Louie, editor-in-chief of Easy Milano, the city’s biweekly English-language publication. “It’s impressive either because of the abundance of food offered at a typical
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and Bar Basso was apparently the first neighborhood bar to begin making them in addition to the classic, more medicinal aperitifs. Aperitivo culture really took off during the 1980 “boom years,” when a famous ad campaign for a liqueur characterized the city and its bustling post-work nightlife as Milano da Bere (Drinking Milan). Today, in Italy’s capital of fashion and design, there are bars to suit all tastes. While Milan may be landlocked, it was once an important port and is crisscrossed by canals. The canals in the Navigli district make for a nice backdrop to the area’s bars and restaurants. Capetown Café on Via Vigevano boasts an ornate wooden bar, exposed brick archways, and wood tables and chairs. On warmer nights, the creative types who frequent the Capetown prefer to sit outside and sip their beers or mojitos while enjoying a spread of focaccia, olives, cold cuts and pasta salad. The Palazzo Reale in Piazza Duomo is home to the city’s most important art exhibitions and its own bar, the Giacomo Caffé. Palazzo Reale maintains the Old-World charm of Milan’s old royal palace with its wooden bar, red banquettes, and antique mirrors and light fixtures. On warmer nights, a light aperitivo is offered in the museum’s courtyard, typically accompanied by live musical performances. For aperitivo with a view, Terrazza Aperol in Piazza Duomo offers a breathtaking close-up of the spires of the city’s famous cathedral, Duomo di Milano. This is also the home of Aperol,
In bars throughout the city, the aperitivo ritual has grown from serving basic aperitifs to swanky cocktails and entire spreads of food.
the main ingredient in the classic Italian Spritz: three parts prosecco, three parts Aperol, and a splash of seltzer or soda. The space is large and modern and features splashes of the signature Aperol orange. Waiters circle by with hot homemade potato chips served in paper cones and perhaps a tray of triangular tramezzini sandwiches on crustless white bread, or fruit and vegetable sticks. Foresta Woodbar, on Via Celestino IV near Piazza Vetra, is new on the scene. It has an “urban forest” theme with low lighting and a glass-enclosed garden room. Its signature Nature Identity cocktail features lychee fruit, soda, prosecco, ginger beer and caviar spheres. During aperitivo starting at 7 p.m., patrons can help themselves to a selection of finger food at the bar. Many nights, the bar hosts a “Sweet Hour” starting at 10, when cakes, meringues and biscotti are brought to the table when you order a drink. While the aperitivo tradition can be found in cities across Italy, it has truly found its home in Milan. Here, diners can
choose from bars that, according to Amie Louie, “cater to working types, student types and everything in between. “In no other Italian city do they do it like they do here.” —Michelle Schoenung is a freelance writer and translator based in Milan. Despite living in Italy for more than 13 years, she only recently developed a taste for the classic Italian aperitifs. Her favorite is the Spritz.
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Small Wonder Zuriel Oduwole dreams big for the African continent. |
Zuriel Oduwole possesses a passion to rebrand Africa. “I want to show the rest of the world,” she says, “that Africa has a lot of wonderful business leaders who are making positive decisions.”
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DAN K R AU SS
Meeting 11-year-old Zuriel Oduwole is like encountering the alter ego of a superhero. The young girl of Nigerian and Mauritian descent with doll-like eyes and chipmunk cheeks lives with her family in an unassuming suburban American neighborhood in California. But on the African continent, she is a sensation: a rising political journalist who has interviewed one in six heads of government; a media darling with a passion to rebrand Africa; and a role model to thousands of children worldwide through her educational-rights activism. “A lot of people see Africa as full of negative things: famine, corruption, wars,” says Zuriel, who calls Africa her home away from home. “But I’ve seen a lot of positive things that they don’t show on the news. I want to show the rest of the world that Africa has a lot of wonderful business leaders who are making positive decisions.” Zuriel first gained attention two years ago, when she wrote to Ghana’s former president Jerry Rawlings to ask if she could interview him about the country’s 1979 revolution for a school documentary competition. Shocked when he said yes, the then-9-year-old flew to Ghana with her family and impressed Rawlings so much that her 15-minute scheduled block was extended to more than 90 minutes. The former president even ordered lunch for the two to share in his office.
From there, the story of the young journalist spread throughout Africa, and her list of high-profile interviewees grew to include presidents and prime ministers from Kenya, Liberia, South Sudan and Jamaica, to name a few. (Rawlings remains one of Zuriel’s favorites, she admits.) Her accomplishments to date can only be abridged: youngest in the world to be featured in Forbes Africa; named one of the world’s 100 most powerful individuals by Business Insider magazine; invited to attend the African Union’s 50th anniversary conference; and selected as Global Brand Ambassador for Ethiopian Airlines and Heritage Bank’s Financial Literacy Ambassador in Nigeria. “I just see myself as Zuriel, an 11-yearold who wakes up and still has chores,” she says when asked to describe herself, “[but] I hope I’m an inspiration to other
kids on the African continent and across the world.” This is Zuriel Oduwole in a nutshell: a child who straddles both the ordinary realities of life and its overwhelming possibilities. In person, she is a small wonder — graceful and poised, childlike yet impossibly mature, with perfect posture and a voice that has a songbirdlike lilt. She loves basketball and tennis; her favorite movie is Shark Tale; and her role model is Nelson Mandela, because “he didn’t have hatred in his heart and became a leader of his country.” What sets her apart is her indelible sense of confidence; she knows she can make her life extraordinary. In fact, her goals may require nine lives. She’d like to retire from journalism at 19 and then become a children’s book author, a professional athlete (the 100-meter sprint would be her choice), an engineer (“I like building various contraptions”), a doctor, and eventually president of the United States (“so I can make a difference around the world”). She already knows her top three colleges too: Yale, Harvard and Princeton. For now, Zuriel and her three younger siblings are homeschooled through an online network, an arrangement she prefers because it lets her wake up earlier than her local school system. Already in the eighth grade — three grades higher than her peers — she likes to start most days at 5 a.m. and no later than 7. “When you finish your set lessons at other schools, you have no other lessons,” she laments. “We can get up really early and learn a lot more material.” Her language-arts teacher through the homeschool program, Robert Yu, sees her in person several times a semester and says july/august 2014
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Zuriel interviews Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia. Her list of high-profile interviewees also includes heads of government from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan and Jamaica.
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given the opportunity.” Zuriel grew up with that message and now wants to see it delivered to families throughout Africa. Between her travels and watching the news, she noticed that more girls in Africa were selling items on the streets than boys, and that educational opportunities usually went first to boys over girls. In response, she partnered with Nigeria’s Lagos Business School and U.S. Consulate last year to launch “Dream Up, Speak Up, Stand Up.” The program allows her to visit schools and deliver motivational speeches to students, particularly young girls, about equal rights to education and the importance of staying in school.
“I just see myself as Zuriel, an 11-yearold who wakes up and still has chores,” Zuriel says, “[but] I hope I'm an inspiration to other kids on the African continent and across the world.”
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she’s a happy, regular kid who possesses a special strength. “She doesn’t believe there is a problem she can’t solve,” he says. “That’s unusual for a child her age.” Zuriel is indeed remarkable, but much is also owed to her mother and father, who take on parenthood with a refreshing enthusiasm. “If you leave your kids to regular things, they just become regular,” says her father, Ademola. A former business-restructuring adviser, he has since quit his job to manage Zuriel’s career. “But we pour confidence into them, tell them that they can be exceptional,” he says. “With Zuriel, when she’s doing something that phenomenal, you have to step up your game.” Homeschooling lets the family travel often, says her mother, Patricia, who wants to make sure her kids enjoy a varied experience of life and culture. Together, they’ve visited more than a dozen countries and lived in Paris and Hong Kong. Zuriel and her two schoolage sisters currently take Mandarin lessons in the evening. For Patricia, every child has been endowed with something special. “As parents, we just try our best to see what they’ve been given and nurture that. Absolutely every child can excel if they’re
“I want to show that you should always dream big and never let anyone put down your dreams,” she says of her program, which has since been recognized by the U.S. State Department and deployed in 13 schools across Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria and Tanzania. “Speak up for your dream. Stand, stand and stand again because, from my experience, many successful people fail at first before succeeding.” YouTube features several videos of Zuriel delivering speeches. In one, she is in Tanzania, speaking to a large crowd of young students seated before her. “If dreams were for sale, what would you buy?” she asks. “Your dreams, along with your actions, can help determine your future. And if they’re big enough, they can determine the future of many other people as well.” She’s taking her own words to heart, too, dreaming as far as the eye can see. Up next, she’d like to interview U.S. President Barack Obama and expand her speaking program to Ethiopia. Ultimately, it’s about “each one, teach one,” she says. Her greatest hope is that every time she proves anything is possible, she’s inspiring another child to do the same.
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Côte d’Ivoire’s Colonial Capital Restoring Grand-Bassam to its charming past. |
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he father of Ivorian independence was a strong believer in what he called “the march of progress.” In just 20 years, between the early 1960s and the early 1980s, Félix Houphouët-Boigny turned Côte d’Ivoire from a rural colonial backwater into a thriving modern nation of highways, airports and deluxe hotels. And yet this tidal wave of modernity didn’t drown every aspect of Côte d’Ivoire’s colonial heritage, as a visit to the beguilingly beautiful town of Grand-Bassam reveals. Bassam — as it’s nicknamed — is a 30-minute drive from Abidjan, the capital city of Côte d’Ivoire. The road between the two winds through both traditional wood-hut villages and more recently built slums, out of which rise the crosses of storefront churches and the crescent moons of cupboard-sized mosques. And tucked on the outskirts of this vibrant town is Le Quartier Colonial, a charming assortment of French colonial buildings erected between the 1890s and the 1930s. Joining its network of floral boulevards are statuesque banana and papaya trees. The sweeping balconies, hipped roofs and paper-white stucco
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walls evoke movies such as the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind. Neatly tended flowerbeds also add color to expansive backyards and driveways. While a handful of these properties are owned by wealthy businesspeople, most lie vacant and put off a somewhat ghostly vibe. From time to time this restful, oldworld scene is disturbed by the buzz of contemporary life. A truck so jampacked that some passengers cling to the roof might wheeze down one of the boulevards. Outside the old courthouse, Rastafarians in pink hats occasionally hard-sell toy giraffes and fresh coconuts. (An unequivocal but polite “Non, merci” usually wards them off.) And yet the quaintness of history prevails. Blessed with an outstanding natural harbor, Grand-Bassam began life as a trading post in the late 15th century, established by the first French explorers to West Africa. It was not until 1842 that the French struck a deal with Attékéblé, a tribal leader and merchant, to set up a protectorate in the region with Bassam as its capital. Building began then on the old courthouse, post office and mansions located in the colonial quarter. When a yellow fever epidemic hit Bassam in the mid-1890s, the French were forced to relocate their capital to Bingerville. The development of GrandBassam continued, however, and people from Europe, the Middle East and other
Le Quartier Colonial is on course to become a fascinating open-air museum by 2016.
parts of Africa migrated there throughout the next 70 years. Nowadays, some of the buildings look timeworn — a tile missing here, a lick of paint needed there — but help is at hand. After an application was made by the Côte d’Ivoire government in 2008, UNESCO deemed Bassam a location worthy of preservation due to its historical significance, inventive town planning
Much of GrandBassam, from its beach to its buildings, remains largely untouched since the French colonial era. And some privately owned structures (below, at right) show a vibrancy that harkens back to the buildings’ former glory.
and incorporation of buildings belonging to the N’zima tribe. Bassam officially became a World Heritage Site in 2012. UNESCO has tasked the Ivorian government with spending US$1.3 million over four years on conservation, including repairs to the façades and other features of specific buildings. But preserving the site’s authenticity isn’t just about construction work. UNESCO requires measures to be taken against coastal erosion and water and traffic pollution. The location’s biodiversity must also be defended. As Grand-Bassam Mayor Georges Philippe Ezaley says, “Even the ancient mango tree on the roadside cannot be cut down.” Le Quartier Colonial is on course to become a fascinating, 1.1-square-kilometer open-air museum by 2016. Were President Houphouët-Boigny alive today, the man who appreciated tradition as much as innovation would no doubt be thrilled by Grand-Bassam’s “march of progress” to the past. july/august 2014
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Defending the Age of Empire
Riders and stallions at Vienna’s Spanish Riding School have preserved the High School of Classical Horsemanship for more than 450 years.
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ne by one, the pure white stallions enter the chandeliered baroque hall, seemingly unaware of the audience, lights and polka music. Evenly spaced, four walk regally to one side of the grand arena and four to the other. Upon passing the enormous painting of Emperor Charles VI, their riders solemnly remove their caps and bring them to their chests, in reverence of the man who commissioned this elegant space. Then, it’s a single-file line through the traditional wooden pillars, a pirouette here, a canter there, the spring and kick of the capriole, the gravity-defying courbette, and the strenuous balancing act of the levade. All the while, the deft, unflappable riders offer encouraging pats and strokes. Although the gallant horses are most definitely working for their keep, it appears they can’t get enough of the spotlight and the sheer fun. It’s as if they know they’re lucky enough to have been called to this oldest, most prestigious of equestrian academies —
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and they want you to know it. Here in the heart of Vienna, the Spanish Riding School has proven its staying power since battle on horseback was still in fashion. Throughout the 450 years since its founding, the ambience and tradition have undergone little change: The same uniforms, music and horsemanship are on display for performances throughout the year, and the school is still considered a significant part of Austrian cultural heritage. Indeed, in a city that today boasts boutique designer hotels, eclectic restaurants and trendy cafes, the Spanish Riding School — part of the Vienna Imperial Palace — insists on being a
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Vienna’s Spanish Riding School carries longstanding traditions onward. |
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Cadets at the school (below) spend up to six years learning not only classical horsemanship but also how to properly care for their equestrian charges.
traditional emblem of the Austrian capital. Determined to keep it classic and regal, the school reflects the noble Age of Empire but with one admirable exception: A visit these days is no longer reserved for the elite and, moreover, can include a behindthe-scenes peek at how these majestic creatures are groomed for the limelight. While leading a tour through the school’s adjacent stables, guide Christina Arthold explains the careful selection that takes place deep in the hills of southeastern Austria. Since 1920, she says, breeders at the Piber stud farm there have observed which among the Lipizzaner horses — admired for their intelligence, adaptability and willingness to work — would be bestsuited for classical dressage. In addition, the school selects only stallions. According to Arthold, they are unbowed by the rigor of intense training and the pressure to perform. “They are natural show-offs,” she says. Likewise, the Lippizzaners’ human partners embark on a road that requires patience, dedication and skill. Before they are allowed to perform, cadets spend up to six years learning not only classical horsemanship but also how to care for their equestrian charges. Andreas Hausberger, one of the school’s two chief riders, began riding at age 7 with the dream of performing here. “Of course you have the Spanish Riding School in mind,” he says. Applicants face fierce competition, says Hausberger, who began his training at the school in 1984, at age 19. Out of hundreds of would-be pupils, only one or two new riders are admitted each
year; the school accepts applicants solely from the European Union; and women weren’t granted entry until 2008. Today, one female assistant rider and four women pupils train alongside the men. Every stallion at the school stays with his rider till the horse retires; horses are broken in at age 4 and eligible for retirement at 25. “We are still the only place where the High School of Classical Horsemanship has been preserved,” Hausberger says. “We see the horses as partners.” Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon first described this ancient art around 350 B.C. His treatise On Horsemanship dispenses thorough advice for selecting, breaking in, caring for, grooming, mounting, training and riding horses. More than a millennium later, when the Moors invaded Spain, they crossbred
their native Berber horses with Spanish stock. In the 16th century, when the Habsburgs ruled both Spain and Austria, the new breed was introduced to the latter; a stud farm was established at Lipizza, in modern-day Slovenia, and the horses were given their moniker. While their trademark is their gleaming white coats, one dark horse is always included in Spanish Riding School performances “as a good-luck charm,” Hausberger says. So prized are these snow-white horses who perform the world over that, at the end of World War II, U.S. General George Patton cooperated with German Wehrmacht officers stationed in Czechoslovakia to protect some 250 Lipizzaners. Fearing that the famished Red Army soldiers would capture the horses for meat, the Germans asked Patton for help escorting the animals safely to Vienna. Patton, brusque and no-nonsense by most measures, later reminisced about the Lipizzaners in his diary, noting how “ . . . it is probably wrong to permit any highly developed art, no matter how fatuous, to perish from the earth.” He then added, “To me, the high-schooling of horses is certainly more interesting than either painting or music.” Watching the lithe, rythmic Lipizzaners train and perform, visitors are left with the same gratitude for the Spanish Riding School. Having withstood the whims of monarchy and republic, the school, its horses and its riders proudly carry on ageold traditions in a world that seems to change as quickly as a horse’s gallop.
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SEATED EXERCISES These gentle exercises, which you can carry out easily during your flight, will help blood circulation and reduce any tiredness or stiffness that may result from sitting in one place for several hours. Check with your doctor first if you have any health conditions that might be adversely affected by exercise. SHOULDER ROLL
ANKLE CIRCLES
Hunch shoulders forward, then upward, then backward, then downward, using a gentle, circular motion.
Lift feet off the floor and draw a circle with the toes, simultaneously moving one foot clockwise and the other foot counterclockwise. Reverse circles. Do each direction for 15 seconds. Repeat if desired.
ARM CURL
FOOT PUMPS
Start with arms held at a 90-degree angle: elbows down, hands out in front. Raise hands up to chest and back down, alternating hands. Do this exercise in 30-second intervals.
Start with both heels on the floor and point feet upward as high as you can. Then put both feet flat on the floor. Then lift heels high, keeping the balls of your feet on the floor. Continue cycle in 30-second intervals.
FORWARD FLEX
KNEE TO CHEST
With both feet on the floor and stomach held in, slowly bend forward and walk your hands down the front of your legs toward your ankles. Hold the stretch for 15 seconds and slowly sit back up.
Bend forward slightly. Clasp hands around the right knee and hug it to your chest. Hold stretch for 15 seconds. Keeping hands around knee, slowly let it down. Alternate legs. Repeat 10 times.
OVERHEAD STRETCH
KNEE LIFTS
Raise both hands straight up over your head. With one hand, grasp the elbow of the opposite hand and gently pull to one side. Hold stretch for 15 seconds. Repeat on the other side.
Lift leg with knees bent while contracting your thigh muscles. Alternate legs. Repeat 20 to 30 times for each leg.
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SHOULDER STRETCH
OTHER TIPS FOR A COMFORTABLE FLIGHT
Reach right hand over left shoulder. Place left hand behind right elbow and gently press elbow toward shoulder. Hold stretch for 15 seconds. Repeat on the other side.
> For your own comfort, try to travel light.
> Avoid heavy meals during the flight.
> Wear loose clothing and elasticated stockings made of natural fiber.
> Take short walks once every two hours to improve circulation.
> Increase your normal intake of water and only drink alcohol in moderation.
> Try to touch your toes when waiting in the aisle, to stretch your hamstrings.
NECK ROLL
> Use moisturizing cream to keep your skin from drying out.
> Upon arrival at your destination, take a quick jog, brisk walk or a vigorous scrub to help stimulate circulation. Then, take a hot shower or a relaxing bath.
With shoulders relaxed, drop ear to shoulder and gently roll neck forward and to the other side, holding each position for about five seconds. Repeat five times.
> Take off shoes while on the plane to prevent your feet from swelling up, or wear shoes that will cope with expanding ankles.
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TRAVELING IN ETHIOPIA LAND » Ethiopia covers an area of 1.14 million square kilometers (944,000 square miles). CLIMATE » There are two seasons: The dry season, October–May, and the wet season, June–September. TOPOGRAPHY » Ethiopia has an elevated central plateau varying in height between 2,000 and 3,000 meters. In the north and center of the country, there are some 25 mountains whose peaks rise above 4,000 meters. The most famous Ethiopian river is the Blue Nile (or Abbay), which flows north a distance of 1,450 kilometers from its source in Lake Tana to join the White Nile at Khartoum, Sudan.
PEOPLE » The population is estimated at 78 million.
ECONOMY » About 90 percent of the population earns a living from the land, mainly as subsistence farmers. Agriculture is the backbone of the national economy, and the principal exports from this sector are coffee, oil seeds, pulses, flowers, vegetables, sugar and foodstuffs for animals. There is also a thriving livestock sector, exporting cattle, hides and skins. LANGUAGE » Ethiopia is a multiethnic state with 83 languages and 200 dialects. Amharic is the working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, while Oromiffa, Tigrigna and Guragina are widely spoken.
ELECTRIC SUPPLY » Ethiopia uses 220 volts 50 cycles AC. Plugs are European two-pin. TIME » Ethiopia is in the GMT +3 time zone. It follows the Julian calendar, which consists of 12 months of 30 days each and a 13th month of five or six days (on a leap year).
CURRENCY » The units of currency are the birr and cents. Notes are 100, 50, 10, 5 and 1 birr. The 1 birr coin is also in circulation. ATMs (Automatic Teller Machines) are found in major Addis Ababa hotels, shopping malls and at the Bole International Airport. It is important to retain currency exchange receipts. BANKING HOURS » Banking hours are usually 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday to Friday and 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturdays. Most banks work through lunchtime; however, foreign 72
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a) 200 cigarettes, 100 cigars or 250 grams of tobacco
COURIER & MONEY TRANSFERS » Money transfers can be made through
c) half a liter of perfume
Western Union and MoneyGram. Both have representative branches in Addis Ababa and also make their services available from private and national banks. For courier services, DHL, Fedex, UPS, TNT and EMS have offices in Addis Ababa.
COMMUNICATIONS » Telephones, fax machines and Internet access are available in Addis Ababa in most hotels and at private Internet service centers around the city. WORKING HOURS » Government office hours are 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 1:30–5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Working hours on Friday are 8:30–11:30 a.m. and 1:30– 5:30 p.m. Private and public businesses are often open on Saturdays.
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS » Public holidays are celebrated according to the Ethiopian (Julian) Calendar (see “Time”). The calendar is seven years behind the Western or Gregorian Calendar, with the New Year falling in the month of September. January 7: Ethiopian Christmas (Genna) January 14: Birth of Prophet Mohammed PBUH (Mauwlid)*
March 2: Victory of Adwa (1896) April 18: Ethiopian Orthodox Good Friday April 20: Ethiopian Orthodox Easter Sunday May 1: International Labor Day May 5: Ethiopian Patriots (1941) Victory Day May 28: Fall of the Dergue (1991) Day September 11: Ethiopian New Year September 27: The Finding of the True Cross (Meskel) October 5: Id ul Ahda (Sacrifice)* *These holidays are subject to moon sighting.
HEALTH REQUIREMENTS » A yellow fever certificate is required for some African destinations. Vaccination against cholera is also required for any person who has visited or transited a cholera-infected area within six days prior to arrival in Ethiopia. imports
d) souvenirs (by visitors) with a value not exceeding 500 birr
When it comes to currency: a) It is illegal to carry more than 200 birr when entering or departing Ethiopia. b) You must declare to customs officials at point of entry any cash in excess of US$3,000 (or the equivalent). If you have more than US$3,000 on departing, you must present a receipt from the purchasing bank.
IMMIGRATION REQUIREMENTS » Visas are required for all foreign visitors to Ethiopia, with the exception of nationals of Kenya. Visa applications may be obtained at Ethiopia’s diplomatic missions overseas. Nationals of 37 countries are now allowed to receive their tourist visas on arrival in Ethiopia. The list includes: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom and United States.
BOLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT »
January 19: Ethiopian Epiphany (Timket)
CUSTOMS » Duty-free permitted for up to:
b) 2 liters of alcoholic beverages
are
The airport is about 5 kilometers from Meskel Square and Addis Ababa’s central business district. Self-service kiosks are available for guests checking in, and free Wi-Fi is offered throughout the airport. Free luggage carts and paid porters are also available in the baggage hall. All bags must go through X-ray check before you exit. When flying out of Bole International Airport, please note: Terminal 1 — all domestic flights and flights to Burundi, Djibouti, Rwanda, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Terminal 2 — all other international flights. Taxis are readily available and may be ordered inside the terminal. Privately owned taxis are not metered, nor do they have fixed rates. Agree upon the fare in advance.
SECURITY » Security at the airport is tight, and travelers need to produce their air ticket and passport to enter the terminal. All other visitors are required to pay a fee of 10 birr in the car park and may be required to show identification.
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LEARN AMHARIC ENGLISH-AMHARIC (PHONETIC) Learn some basic Amharic so that you can interact with the locals and enjoy your stay in Ethiopia by experiencing the rich culture of the Ethiopian people.
U SE F U L WO R DS Today Tomorrow Yesterday Now Quickly Slowly Mr Mrs Miss I
P RO N U N CIAT I O N G U I D E
You He, She We
a as the a in father e as the e in set i as the i in ship o as the o in go u as the oo in boot gn as the gn in compagne (French) (M) Masculine; (F) Feminine; (P) Plural
They What? Who? When? How? Why? Which? Yes (all right) No Excuse me I am sorry Good Bad
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N U M B E RS Zare Nege Tilant Ahun Tolo Kes Ato Weyzero Weyzerit Ene Ersewo Essu, Essoa Egna Ennessu Min? Man? Metche? Endet? Lemin? Yetignaw? Eshi Aydelem /Ayhonem Yikirta Aznallehu Tiru / melkam Metfo
One
And
Two
Hulet
Three
Sost
Four
Arat
Five
Amist
Six
Sidist
Seven
Sebat
Eight
Semmint
Nine
Zetegn
Ten
Asser
Eleven
Asra-and
Twelve
Asra-hulet
Thirteen, etc.
Asra-sost, etc.
Twenty
Haya
Twenty-one, etc.
Haya-and, etc.
Thirty
Selasa
Thirty-one, etc.
Selasa-and, etc.
Forty
Arba
Fifty
Amsa
One hundred
And meto
One thousand
And shi  
D I R E C T I O NS / E M E RG E N CI E S
M E E T I N G AN D G R E E T I N G Hello
Halo
Good morning
Endemn adderu/ k(M)/sh(F)
Good afternoon Good evening
Endemn walu/k(M)/ sh(F)
CO M M E RCE
Where? (Place)
Yet?
Where is it?
Yet no?
Where? (Direction)
Wodet?
Street/road
Menged
Airport
Awiroplan marefeya
Where is the hotel?
Hotelu yet no?
Where are you going?
Yet iyehedu no? eh (M)/esh(F)
I am going to . . .
Wede... iyehedku no
Turn right
Wede kegn yitatefu/ tatef(M)/tatefi(F)
Turn left
Wede gra yitatefu tatef(M)/tatefi(F)
Go straight
Ketita yihidu/hid(M)/ higi(F)
Please stop here
Ezih Yikumu/kum(M)/ kumi(F)
Endemn ameshu/ eh(M)/esh(F)
Hotel
Hotel
Dehna hunu/ hun(M)/ hugne(F)
Room
Kifil
Bed
Alga
How are you?
Tenayistillign / endemen not? eh(M)/ esh(F)
To sleep
Metegnat
To bathe
Galan metateb
I am well, thank you (very much)
Dehna negn (Betam) amesegenallehu
Where is the toilet?
Metatebiya betu yet new?
You’re welcome
Minim aydel
Please come in
Yigbu/giba(M)/ gibi(F)
Where may I get something to drink?
Yemiteta neger yet agengalehu?
Coffee
Buna
Please sit down
Yikemetu/ tekemet(M)/ tekemechi(F)
One (cup of) coffee
And (sini) buna
Come
Na(M)/Ney(F)/Nu(P)
Beer
Birra
Go
Hid(M)/Higi(F)/Hidu(P)
Cold
Kezkaza
Stop
Kum(M)/Kumi(F)/ Irdugn(P)
Help
Irdagn(M)/irgegn(F)/ Irdugn(P)
Hospital
Hakem bet
Police
Polis
Goodbye
What is your name?
Simewo man no?h(M)/sh(F)
Hot
Muk
Tea
Shay
My name is . . .
Sime . . . no
Food
Migib
Where do you come from?
Keyet Metu? ah(M)/ ash(F) Hagero yet no?eh(M)/esh(F)
Meat
Siga
Fish
Assa
I come from . . .
Ke . . . metahu
Bread
Dabo
My country is . . .
Hagere . . . no
Butter
Kebe
Can you speak Amharic?
Amaregna yenageralu? tenageraleh(M)/ tenageriyalesh(F)
Sugar
Sikuar
Salt
Chow
Pepper
Berbere
Shop
Suk
To buy
Megzat
Sunday
Ihud
To sell
Meshet
Monday
Segno
Money
Genzeb
Tuesday
Maksegno
Cent
Santime
Wednesday
Erob
How much does this cost?
Wagaw sint no?
Thursday
Hamus
Friday
Arb
That is quite expensive
Betam wood no
Saturday
Kedame
Only a little
Tinish
I want to learn more
Yebelete memar ifelegalehu
How do you find Ethiopia?
Itiyopiyan endet agegnuat? hat(M)/ shat(F)
I like it here
Itiyopiya Tesmamtognal
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Ethiopian Airlines Aircraft
Number of Aircraft
Boeing 737-800
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
Boeing 777-200LR
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Bombardier Q400 Data
10
10
6
Boeing 757-200ER
MD-11CF Cargo
Boeing 777-200LRF Cargo
17
4
2
2
Boeing 737-700
Boeing 757-200ER Cargo
Boeing 767-300ER
Boeing 777-300ER
5
2
10
2
Fleet | Length
10m
20m
30m
The B777-300ER is one of the largest and most-modern members of our fleet, with a 400-seat capacity. Its spacious cabin interior, high ceiling, advanced in-flight entertainment system, increased stowage capability and additional cargo uplift flexibility give our passengers the best possible travel experience. The aircraft also perfectly complements its predecessor in our fleet, the B777-200LR (Longer Range) airplane, by providing additional capacity and flexibility on popular routes such as Guangzhou, Washington, D.C., Lagos, Luanda and Dubai.
Boeing B787-8
50m
Cargo Aircraft
Boeing 777-300ER
Passenger Aircraft
40m
Boeing B777-300ER
Boeing B777F
60m
Boeing MD-11
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Boeing B757-200F
Boeing B737-400F
Total Number of Airplanes
2
2
2
1
Length [m]
63.7
61.6
47.3
36.4
Wingspan [m]
64.8
51.7
38.1
28.9
Height [m]
18.6
17.53
13.6
11.1
Cruising Speed [Mach]
0.84
0.8
0.8
0.74
Max. Altitude [ft]
43,100
43,200
42,000
37,100
Max. Take-off Weight [kg]
347,810
285,990
115,660
68,038
Max. Landing Weight [kg]
260,810
222,940
95,250
56,245
Range [nmi]
4,900
3,480
3,140
2,402
Max. Payload [tons]
106
95
39
19
Cabin Width [m]
5.8
5.7
3.53
3.53
Boeing B777-200LR
Boeing B767-300ER
Boeing B757-200
Boeing B737-800
Boeing B737-700
Bombardier Q400
Total Number of Airplanes
10
2
6
10
4
10
5
17
Length [m]
56.7
73.9
63.7
54.9
47.3
39.5
33.6
32.8
Wingspan [m]
60.2
64.8
64.8
47.6
38.1
35.8
35.8
28.4
Height [m]
17
18.5
18.6
15.8
13.6
12.5
12.5
8.3
Cruising Speed [Mach]
0.85
0.84
0.84
0.8
0.8
0.785
0.785
0.6
Max. Altitude [ft]
43,100
43,100
43,100
43,100
42,100
41,000
41,000
25,000
Max. Take-off Weight [kg]
227,930
351,530
347,450
186,880
115,660
79,010
70,080
29,257
Max. Landing Weight [kg]
172,360
251,290
223,160
145,140
95,250
66,360
58,600
28,009
Range [nmi]
7,845
7,825
8.625
5,960
3,915
3,085
3,445
2,415
Configuration (First/Business/Econ.)
24/240
34/336
34/287
24/211
16/155
16/102
16/138
7/60
Cabin Width [m]
5.5
5.9
5.9
4.7
3.53
3.53
3.53
2.51
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SALES OFFICES ANGOLA Largo 4 De Fevereiro Hotel Meridien Presidente Luanda, Angola Tel: 2442 310328/310615, Fax: 2442 310328 APT Mobile: 914 526675 BELGIUM Park Hill J. E. Mommaertslaan 16B 1831 Diegem Tel: 0032 2 712 05 86, Fax: 0032 2 725 83 92 Email: bruadmn@ethiopianairlines.com BURKINA FASO Avenue Kwame N`krumah mmb. Bati 01 BP 4883 Ouaga 01 Tel Office: 22650301024/25 Email: OUAAPT@ethiopianairlines.com AshenafiY@ethiopianairlines.com BURUNDI Avenue De La Victorie No. 09 PO Box 573, Bujumbura Tel : 257 226820/226038, APT: 257 229842 Mobile: 257 78841844, Email: henokm@ ethiopianairlines.com CAMEROON Rue Tobie Kuoh Bonanjo, B.P 1326 Douala Telephone – reservation desk: 00237 33 43 02 46; Area Manager direct line: 00237 33 43 02 64; Fax line: 00237 33 43 01 67; Mobile Area Manager for Cameroon: 00237 77 93 79 29; AIRPORT OFFICE Tel: 00237 33 43 37 30; Cell: 00237 77 11 77 29 CANADA City Ticket Office Suite 1912 - 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3L4 Tel: +1416 962 0005, Toll-free: 1 855 269 0362, Mobile: +416 996 3384, Fax: 1 416 962 0095 Airport Office T1 Level 2, Room No. EB 2035/36, Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Tel: +1 905 405 0040, Toll-free:1 800 445 2733, Fax:+1 1 905 405 0005 CHAD Avenue Charles De Gaule PO Box 989, N’djamena CTO Tel: 235 2523143/2523027, Tel: 235 523143/523027, ATO Tel: 235 2522599 APT: 235 522599, Mobile: 235 6 6896226 Email: alikd@ethiopianairlines.com CHINA Beijing Room 704, SK Tower, A6 Jianguomenwai Avenue, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100022, China Office Tel.: 0086 010 65050315 Fax: 0086 010 65054120 Email: bjsadm@ethiopianairlines.com Reservation Tel.: 0086 010 65050315 Email : bjssup@ethiopianairlines.com, etbjscto@ethiopianairlines.com.cn Call Center (China) Tel: 4008 071 787 Email: callcenter@ethiopianairlines.com.cn Beijing Capital International Airport –Terminal 3 Tel: +86 150 1155 5744 Email: bjsapt@ethiopianairlines.com Cargo Tel.: +86 010 64556409/+86 010 64558536 Email: etpek@megacap.com.cn Guangzhou Room 502, 5th Floor, Podium Building of Guangdong Int’l Hotel, 339 East Huanshi Zhong Road, GuangZhou, 510098, China Office Tel: +86 020 87621101/87620836 Fax : +86 020 87620837, Email: liuy@ ethiopianairlines.com, Reservation Tel.: +86 020 87621101, Fax : +86 020 87620837, Email: cancto@ethiopianairlines.com, canres@ethiopianairlines.com, etcancto@ ethiopianairlines.com.cn Call Center (China) Tel: 4008 071 787, Email: callcenter@ ethiopianairlines.com.cn BaiYun International Airport Tel.: +86 020 36067405 Email: canapt@ethiopianairlines.com 80
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Phone: +33 1 74 37 04 80 MAS: +33 6 70 81 90 24 Email: parapt@ethiopianairlines.com
Shanghai Room 2110, 21st Floor, Ciro’s Plaza, No.388 NanJing West Road, HuangPu District, ShangHai, 200003, China
GABON Quartier London Rue Ogouarouwe Plaque No. 14 PO Box 12802, Libreville Tel: 241 760144/45, APT Tel: 05316666 Fax: 241 760146, CTO Tel: 241 741315
Office Tel: +86 021 60509685, Fax: +86 021 6089 9326, Email: girumtb@ethiopianairlines. com, shaadm@ethiopianairlines.com Reservation Tel.: +86 021 60509685, Email: etshacto@ethiopianairlines.com.cn Call Center (China) Tel: 4008 071 787, Email: callcenter@ethiopianairlines.com.cn PUDONG International Airport —Terminal 2 Room 2-A3-M02,International Arrival Corridors, Pudong Airport, Shanghai,China, Duty Mobile : +86 1811 731 5785, Fax: +86 021-60899326 Email: pvgapt@ethiopianairlines.com, etshaapt@ ethiopianairlines.com.cn Cargo Tel. : +86 021 6835 4522, Email: eric.fei@ megacap.com.cn CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Boulevard du 30 Juin No. 1525 Aforia Building-1st Floor Gombe, Kinshasa CTO Tel: 243 817 006 585/810 884 000 APT Mobile: 243 817 006 589, Email: fihres@ethiopianairlines.com, fihapt@ ethiopianairlines.com, YinnesuF@ ethiopianairlines.com CONGO, REPUBLIC Avenue Foch, Brazzaville PO Box 14125 Tel: 242-22 281 0766, Email: Negaw@ ethiopianairlines.com COTE D’IVOIRE Avenue Chardy Immeuble Le Paris PO Box 01 BP 5897 ABJ 01,Abidjan CTO Tel: 00 225 20219332, 20215538/20219430, Fax: 00 225 20219025 APT Tel: 225 21278819, CTO Email: Tsegayek@ ethiopianairlines.com, APT Email: abjapt@ ethiopianairlines.com DJIBOUTI Globe Travel, Angle de la Place du 27 Juin et de la rue Ras Makonen, PO BOX 1181, Republic de Djibouti Tel: 0025377804783, 0025377815479 Fax: 00253 21354848, Email: YohannesO@ ethiopianairlines.com EGYPT Concorde El Salam Hotel, 69 Abdelhamid Badawy Street, Heliopolis, Cairo Tel: 0800 0000 411(Reservations 24 hours) Tel: 202-2621 4934 (Admin), Fax: 202 2621 4934, APT: 202 2696 6620, Cargo: 20 10 6698255, Email: caires@ethiopianairlines.com APT: caiapt@ethiopianairlines.com Cargo: etcargo@aviatrans-eg.com EQUATORIAL GUINEA Equatorial Guinea, Malabo Independence Avenue Admin Tel: 00240222657390 Email: ssgadmin@Ethiopianairlines.com CTO Tel: 00240333090588 Fax: 00240333090593, Email: ssgcto@ ethiopianairlines.com Area Manager Email: TeshomeGb@ ethiopianairlines.com Airport Email: ssgapt@ethiopianairlines.com ETHIOPIA Main City Ticket Office Churchill Road PO Box 1755, Addis Ababa Tel: 251 11 5517000/511931, 251 11 6656666 (Reservation), APT Tel: 251 11 5178320 Fax: 251 11 6611474
GERMANY Ethiopian Airlines, Kaiserstraße 77, 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Sales & Marketing: Tel: 0049 (0) 69 770 673 053, Fax: 0049 (0) 69 770 673 235 Email: salesET.germany@aviareps.com Reservations: Tel: (0180-5) 355 600 Fax: 0049 (0) 69 770 673 028 Email: reservationsET.germany@aviareps.com GHANA Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, Cocoa House, Ground Floor PO Box 3600, Accra CTO: Tel 233 302 664856/57/58 Fax: 233 302 673938 Mobile: 233 20 2011132 Email: GenetWl@ethiopianairlines.com APT Tel: 233 302 775168/778993/ 233 302 776171 ext. 1322/1324 Mobile: 233 20 2013588 Email: accapt@ethiopianairlines.com HONG KONG Ethiopian Airlines, Unit 1606,16/F, New East Ocean Center,9 Science Museum Road,Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: (852)3968 9030/2117 1863, Cell: (852) 63485863, Fax: (852)2117 1811, Email : MariamawitA@ethiopianairlines.com INDIA Ticket Office 2-5 Chintamani Plaza, Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri East, Mumbai 400 099 Email: bomres@ethiopianairlines.com Res: Toll-free 0008001007947 Mumbai Airport Office: E8 – 3060 Level 3, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport New Terminal 2B, Sahar Road, Andheri East, Mumbai 400 099 Tel: 66859410 or 66859411, Fax: 66859412 Tel: 28366700 Ext 3514 Email: narendrak@ethiopianairlines.com Mumbai Cargo Office: New Heavy Import Warehouse, 2nd Floor, Sahar Cargo Complex, Sahar, Andheri East, Mumbai 400 099 Tel: 26828415 or 26828416, Fax: 26828417 Email: bomcgo@ethiopianairlines.com Delhi Airport Office Room no -7, Ground level-IV, Terminal III, IGI Airport, New Delhi 110 037 Tel: 49638656/657/658, Fax :49638656; Duty Manager -9811412414 Email: Delapt@ethiopianairlines.com Cargo: 25653739/40 Email: Delcgo@ethiopianairlines.com ISRAEL 1 Ben Yehuda Street Room 2016, Tel Aviv CTO Tel: 972 3 797 1405 Fax: 972 3 516 0574 Email: TLVRES@ETHIOPIANAIRLINES.COM APT Tel: 972 3 9754096 APT Fax: 972 3 9754097 Email: TLVAPT@ETHIOPIANAIRLINES.COM Opensky-Cargo CGO Tel: 972-3-9724332 CGO Fax: 972-3-9731082 Email: david@opensky-cargo.co.il
FRANCE Ethiopian Airlines area office 66 Avenue des champs-Elysées 75008 Paris - France Phone: 33 1 53 892102 and 0 825 826 135 (ticketing), Fax: 33 1 53 771303 Email: Ethiopian-airlines.paris@wanadoo.fr
ITALY Piazza Barberini 52 00187 Rome, Italy CTO Tel: 39 06 42011199 Call center access Tel No: 06 45230459 Tel: 3906 4200 9220 Fax: 3906 481 9377 APT: 3906 6501 0621 APT Fax: 3906 6501 0621 CGO: 3906 65954113 Email: info.roma@ethiopianairlines.it romres@ethiopianairlines.it
Ethiopian Airlines CDG Airport office Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport – Terminal 2
Milan Address Via Albricci, 9 20122 Milan Tel: +39 02 8056562
Fax: +39 02 72010638 Email: milres@ethiopianairlines.com KENYA Bruce House Muindi Mbingu Street PO Box 42901-00100, Nairobi Tel: Res: +254 20311507/544; +254 723786649/734 666066 APT: 254 20 822236/822311 Fax: 254 20 2219007 Email: nbores@ethiopianairlines.com nboadm@ethiopianairlines.com Airport: nboapt@ethiopianairlines.com Cargo: Freight In Time JKIA Cargo village, 2nd Avenue Box 41852-00100 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: 254 20-827480/827044/827248 Email: etmanager@ethiopiancargo-kenya.com etoperations@ethiopiancargo-kenya.com TSS Tower, Nkrumah Road PO Box 94600-80115, Mombasa, Kenya Tel: Res: +254 41 2319977/78/79 APT: +254 41 2011199 Cel: +254 714 618989 Email: MBATSM@ethiopianairlines.com MBARES@ethiopianairlines.com MBAAPT@ethiopianairlines.com LEBANON Beirut Gefinor Center Bloc-B, Clemenceau St. Tel: 961 1 752846/7 Fax: 961 1 752846/7 Email: AmanuelY@ethiopianairlines.com APT Tel: 961 1 629814 Email: beyapt@ethiopianairlines.com MALAWI Kenyatta Drive, Bisnowaty Centre Tel: 00265 1771002/1308/6003/6001/20 31/6004 Fax: 01 772 013 ATO Fax: 01 700 782 Email: LLWCTO@ethiopianairlines.com LLWAPT@ethiopianairlines.com GodfreyL@ethiopianairlines.com W.Gondwe@sdvmalawi.com MALI Square Patrice Lumumba PO Box 1841, Bamako Tel: 00 223 20 22 2088 Fax: 00 223 20 22 6036 APT Mobile: 00 223 66 799 208 Email: DagnewM@ethiopianairlines.com MOZAMBIQUE Avenida 25 De Setembro No. 270, Edificio Time Squre, Bloc 4, First floor No. 6 Tel: +258 21 314421 NIGERIA CVC Building 3, Idowu Taylor, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria PO Box 1602 Tel: 234 1 7744711/2 Fax: 234 1 4616297 APT: 234 1 7744710/7751921/3 Email: SolomonY@ethaiopianairlines.com lossales@ethiopianairlines.com lossr@ethiopianairlines.com Airport Office, Aviation House Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos Tel: 234 1 7744710 Fax: 234 1 2711655 Email: losapt@ethiopianairlines.com Sheraton Abuja Hotel No. 1 Ladi Kwali Way, Maitema, Abuja Federal Capital Territory Suite No 173 Tel: 234 92906844/234 92904941 Email: ABVRES@Ethiopianairlines.com; ABVCTO@ Ethiopianairlines.com; ABVADMN@ Ethiopianairlines.com Airport Office -ABV: Ethiopian Airlines, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja-Nigeria Tel: 234 92903852, 234 92902761 Email: abvapt@ethiopianairlines.com; abvagt@ethiopianairlines.com; abvbag@ethiopianairlines.com Enugu CTO Polopark Mall, Polo Ground, Abakaliki Road,
Sales Offices and General Sales Agents | Enugu North, Enugu State, Nigeria Tel: 234 7033745716, Mobile: 234 8141543740 Ethiopian Cargo LOS-office Nahco Cargo Complex MMIA Ikeja Lagos Tel Mobile: 234 7034065669 OMAN Muscat, Ruwi, MBD Area, PO BOX 962, Muscat, Postal code 100 Sultanate of Oman Cell: +968 93891448 Tel: +968 24816565 Fax: +968 24815815 Email: samim@ethiopianairlines.com RWANDA Union trade center (UTC) building First floor, office No. 25 CTO Tel: 250252570440/42, 2502525755045, Fax: 252570441 Mobile: 250788562469 (Area Manager) Email: BrukE@ethiopianairlines.com kglsm@ethiopianairlines.com APT Tel: 2502525100000 Mobile: 250-788595536/788426164/ 788517905/788828865 Email: kglapt@ethiopianairlines.com kglagt@ethiopianairlines.com SAUDI ARABIA Medina Road, Adham Center PO Box 8913, Jeddah 21492 Tel: 9662 6512365/6614/9609 Fax: 9662 6516670 APT: 9662 6853064/196 APT Fax: 9662-685316 CGO Tel/Fax: 9662 6851041 Email: Jedcto@ethiopianairlines.com Jeddah Airport Fax: 966 2 6853196 Mobile: 966 504301358 Email: jedapt@ethiopianairlines.com Jeddah Cargo Office Tel: 966 2 6850756 / 6851041 Fax: 966 2 6851041 Email: jedcgo@ethiopianairlines.com Riyadh Ticket or Town Office Email: ruhcto@ethiopianairlines.com Mobile: 966 505217168 Dammam, Silver Tower Building, King Abdul Aziz Street, Al Khobar Tel: 966 (3) 8984696, Fax: 966 (3) 8991539 Cell: 966 0559540076 Email: YohannesB@ethiopianairlines.com SENEGAL Immeuble La Rotonde, Rue Dr. Theze PO Box 50800, CP 18524 DKR RP Tel: 221 33 823 5552/54 Fax: 221 33 823 5541 Apt Tel: 221 33 820 9396/5077 Email: Dkrres@ethiopianairlines.com SOMALI LAND CI Maarat al Khayr Building Tel: 252 2 520681/528445 Mobile: 252 2 4427575 Email: hgaet@hotmail.com SOUTH AFRICA 156 BRAM FISCHER DRIVE 2nd Floor Holiday House – Randburg CTO Tel: 27 11 7815950 CTO Fax: 27 11 7816040 APT Tel: 27 11 3903819 APT Fax: 27 11 3943438 CTO Email: YohannesTK@ethiopianairlines. com, ATO jnbapt@ethiopianairliness.com SOUTH KOREA #1004, Seoul Center Bldg, 116 Sogong-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea 100-070 CTO Tel: +82-2-771-1157 CTO Fax: +82-2-771-1157 Email: etkorea@sharp.co.kr Incheon International Airport Tel: 82327435698, Email: eticnpax@sharp.co.kr SWEDEN Kungsgatan 37, SE-11156 Stockholm Tel: 46 0 8 440 0060/ 46 0 8 440 2900 ATO: 46 8 59360170 CTO: 46 8 4402900/4400060 Fax: 46 0 8 206622 Cell: 0046 709556073 APT: 46 859360170
Email: res.ethiopian@telia.com info.ethiopian@telia.com SUDAN 2 Square 2b Khartoum east Parlaman street, El Sheikh Mustefa El Amin Bldg Khartoum, Sudan Tel: 249 1 83762063/88 Fax: 2491 83788428 APT: 2491 8790991 Email: krtres@ethiopianairlines.com krtsm@ethiopianairlines.com Juba South Sudan AirportMinistry Road, Panorama Building Cel: +211 956212301/ +211 955060355 Fax: 249 811 823600 Email: JUBCTO@ethiopianairlines.com JUBTSM@ethiopianairlines.com Malakal Ethiopian Airlines South Sudan Hotel Room No 02 Malkal Tel: 00249(0)955722506 Vivacell Fax: 00249(0)920698951 MTN TANZANIA T.D.F.L Building Ohio Street PO Box 3187, Dar-es-Salaam Tel: 255 22 2117063 65/2125443 Fax: 255 22 2115875 Mobile: 255 754 285 899 786 110 066 Area Manager: 255 786 285 899 Email: Milatm@ethiopianairlines.com darres@ethiopianairlines.com Dar APT Tel: 255-22 2844243 Mobile: 255 786285898 Email: darapt@ethiopianairlines.com Kilimanjaro Boma Road, PO Box 93 Arusha, Tanzania CTO: 255 27 2506167 - 2504231, 2509904 Manager mobile: 255-782-450224 Email: jrocto@ethiopianairlines.com, arkres@ ethiopianairlines.com Kilimanjaro Airport: 255 27 2554159 Email: jroapt@ethiopianairlines.com Zanzibar Malindi (opposite Ijimaa Mosque) Tel: 255 774417070, 777667665 Email: znzapt@ethiopianairlines.com, znzstation@ethiopianairlines.com THAILAND 140 One Pacific Bldg, Unit 1807 18th Floor, Sukhumvit Road Klongtoey, Bangkok CTO Tel: 66 0 26534366/7 Fax: 66 0 26534370 Email: bkkcto@ethiopianairlines.com bkkres@ethiopianairlines.com bkksm@ethiopianairlines.com Suvarnabhumi Airport 2nd Flr, Unit Z2-016, Airlines Operation Bldg (Airport Office) APT Tel: 66 0 21343062/3/4 APT Fax: 66 0 21343060 Email: bkkapt@ethiopianairlines.com General Sales Agent (Cargo Only) Tel: 66 0 22379207/8/9 Fax: 66 0 22379200 Email: bkkgsa@csloxinfo.com TOGO Hotel Palm Beach, 1 Rue Komore PO Box 12923 CTO Tel: 228 22 21 70 74/ 22 21 87 38 CTO Fax: 228 22 22 18 32 APT Tel: 228 22 26 30 39/22822361240 Ext. 4313/4517 Email: SeblewA@ethiopianairlines.com lfwcto@ethiopianairlines.com lfwapt@ethiopianairlines.com UGANDA Kampala PLOT 1 Kimathi Avenue, UAP Insurance Building Tel : +256414254796/7, +256414345577/8 Email: klares@ethiopianairlines.com, klacto@ ethiopianairlines.com, Entebbe Airport terminal, 1st floor Tel: +256414320570, +256752321130, Email: ebbapt@ethipianairlines.com, katusiimed@ethiopianairlines.com
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Flat 202, Pearl Bldg, Beniyas Street PO Box 7140, Dubai Tel: 9714 2237963/87, Fax: 9714 2273306 APT: 9714 2166833/1833/2161833 APT Fax: 9714 2244841/2822655 CGO: 9714 2822880/2163813 CGO Fax: 9714 2822655 CTO Email: dxbcto@ethiopianairlines.com APT Email: dxbapt@ethiopianairlines.com CGO Email: dxbcgo@ethiopianair-lines.com UNITED KINGDOM City office: 1 Dukes Gate, Action Lane London, W4 5DX Tel: 44-208 987 9086 (admin) 44-0800 635 0644 (reservations) Fax: 44-208 747 9339 Email: loners@ethiopianairlines.com Airport Office: Room 238, East Wing Terminal 3 London Heathrow, Airport Middlesex, TW6 1JT Tel: 44-208 745 4234/35 Fax: 44-208 745 7936 Email: lonapt@ethiopianairlines.com UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Airport Office Dulles International Airport PO Box 16855 Washington, DC 20041 Toll Free No: 800 4452733 Tel: 703 572 6809, 703 572 8740 Fax: 703 572 8738 Email: wasapt@ethiopianairlines.com Reservation, Ticketing and Customer Relations 277 South Washington St. Suite 120 Alexandria, VA 22314 Toll Free No: 800 445 2733 Tel: 703 682 0569 Fax: 703 682 0573 Email: etusa@ethiopianairlines.com ZAMBIA Lusaka CTO Address Indo Zambia Bank Building Off Cairo Road, Plot No. 6907, PO Box 38392, Lusaka Direct Tel: 260 211 236401/02/03 Fax: 260 211 235644 Mobile: 260 955 236401/260 979 821971 Email: SenaitN@ethiopianairlines.com LUNRES@ethiopianairlines.com LUNCTO@ethiopianairlines.com APT Address Lusaka International Airport PO Box 38392, Lusaka Zambia Tel: 260 211 271141 Email: LUNAPT@ethiopianairlines.com ZIMBABWE Cabs Center, 4th Floor CNR Jason Moyo Avenue 2nd St. PO Box 1332, Harare Tel: 263 4790705/6/700735 Fax: 263 4795216, APT: 263 4575191 Email: AlmazY@ethiopianairlines.com hreres@ethiopianairlines.com COUNTRY/ CALL CENTER NUMBERS Bahrain 973-16199205 Belgium 32 28948303 Egypt 800 000 0411/202-21600-006 France 0800901031 Germany 8001818982 Hong Kong 800905629 India 000 800 100 7947 Israel 972 3763 1052 Italy 39-0645230459 Lebanon 00961 142 7627 code 6247 North China 108007141635/864001589689 Saudi Arabia 800 814 0018 South Africa 0800984023 South China 108001401619/86-4001589689 Sweden 46-850513549 Thailand 18001562069708 United Arab Emirates (UAE) 8 000 3570 2401 United Kingdom 0800 016 3449 0800 635 0644 United States of America 1800 445 2733
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ANGOLA Reino Comercio Geral, Rue Marques Das Minas No.4, Luanda Angola Tel: 00244 222 445 713, Fax: 00244 222 335 713, Email: tchukombe@yahoo.com ARGENTINA Praca da Liberdade, 130-10th F Suite 10011002, Liberdade, Sao Paulo-Brazil, CEP 01503-010, Sao Paulo, Brazil Tel: 551131063295/551186328697 Aviareps AG, Landsberg, Str. 155,80687 Munich, Germany Tel: 49 89 55 25 33 73 , Fax: 49 89 54 50 68 42, Email: info@AVIAREPS.com AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND World Aviation System Mezannine Level, 403 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Tel: (02) 9244 2096, Fax: (02) 9290 3441 Email: info@aviareps.com Cargo: MCH Holding Australia Pty Ltd. Unit 6, MIAC Building, 1international Drive, Tullamarine, Vic. 3040. Fax: 03 9093 1377, Tel: 03 9093 1355 Email: hiran@mchholding.com.au AUSTRIA & HUNGARY Aviareps AG, Josephspitalstr, 15, 80331 Munchen, Germany AVIAREPS Airline Management Ges. Mbh, Argentinier Strasse 2/4, a-1040,Vienna, Austria AVIAREPS Hungary Ltd., Borbely utca 5-7, 1/104, 1132, Budapest, Hungary Tel: 49 89 55 25 33 73, Fax: 49 89 54 50 68 42 Email: xcheffel@aviareps.com Cargo: ATC Aviation ACC, Bldg. 262, Entr. 08, 3rd Fl, AT-1300 Vienna Tel: 43 1 7007 388 54, Fax: 43 1 7007 388 53 Email: vie@atc-aviation.com BAHRAIN Bahrain International, Chamber of Commerce Building Tel: 00973-17-224917 / +973-17223315 Fax: 973 17210175 Email: bitgsa@bahraintravel.com.bh BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG & NETHERLANDS Brussels Kales Airline Services, Park Hill, J.E. Mommaertslaan 18A, B - 1831 Diegem Tel: +32 2 716.00.60, Fax: +32 2 716.0086, Email: et.be@kales.com The Netherlands Kales Airline Services, Triport 1 Building, 6th floor, Evert Van de beekstraat 46, NL - 1118 CL Schiphol Tel: +31 20 655.36.36, Fax: +31 20 655.36.51, Email: airlines.nl@kales.com BENIN Vitesse Voyage M/S ABD Vitesse Voyages, Avenue Maro Militaire, Immeuble Toxi Labo Carre 404, Cotonou, Benin Tel: 22921320167/22964054232, Fax: 229 21320170, Email: abdvitessevoyage@yahoo.fr BRAZIL Praca da Liberdade, 130-10th F Suite 10011002, Liberdade, Sao Paulo-Brazil, CEP 01503010, Sao Paulo, Brazil Tel: 551131063295/551186328697 Aviareps AG, Landsberg Str. 155, 80687 Munich, Germany Tel: 49 89 55 25 33 73 , Fax: 49 89 54 50 68 42, Email: info@AVIAREPS.com Heavyweight Express LLC (Cargo GSA), Vinicius Curbi, Country Manager, Heavyweight Air Express Brazil Tel/Fax: +55 11 3192 3838 Email: henry.miller@heavy-weight.com
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BURKINA FASO EUROWORLD SARL, EURO WORLD (Burkina Faso), 01BP4883 OUAGADOUGOU, KWAME N’NKRUMAH, Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso Tel: 226 50 30 16 52/16 85, Fax: 226 50 30 18 86, Email: a_chandirani@satgurutravel.com CAIRO Cargo: Tiffany Cargo Systems, 79, El- Moltaka El- Araby District Sheraton Heliopolis, Cairo Tel: +2 02 22667820, +2 02 22674066, Fax: +2 02 22667821, +2 02 22692121, Email: Mohsen.Hussein@tiffanycargo.com CAMBODIA Cargo: LG International Aviation, G/F Hong Kong Center 108-112 St Sothearos, Sangkat Chaktomok Khan Daun Pneh, Kingdom of Cambodia Tel: +66 0 2 126 8026, Fax: +66 0 2 126 8080 Email: hiran.s@aviation.ilgintl.org CANADA Cargo: Airlines Service International (ASI), 5160 Explorer Drive, Unit 4, Suite F, Mississauga, Ontario 4W 4T7 Tel: 905629 4522, Fax: 905 629 4651 Email: asi@airlineservices.com CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Africa Discovery, Avenue B. Boganda, PO Box 1182, Bangui, Central African Republic Tel: 23675501260/70551136 Fax: 49-69-26952940 Email: dorothee@africa-discovery.net CHILE Praca da Liberdade, 130-10th F Suite 10011002, Liberdade, Sao Paulo-Brazil, CEP 01503010, Sao Paulo, Brazil Aviareps AG, Landsberg Str. 155, 80687 Munich, Germany Tel: 49 89 55 25 33 73, Fax:49 89 54 50 68 42 info@AVIAREPS.com CHINA Beijing Megacap Logistics International Co. Ltd. Room 704, SK Tower, A6 Jianguomenwai Avenue, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100022, China Reservation Tel.: +86 010 65050315 Email : bjssup@ethiopianairlines.com, etbjscto@ethiopianairlines.com.cn Call Center (China) Tel: 4008 071 787 Email: callcenter@ethiopianairlines.com.cn Cargo Megacap Logistics International Co. Ltd F225 Complex Business Office Building, No. 56616 Shunping Road, Shunyi District, Beijing China Tel.: +86 010 64556409/+86 010 64558536 Email: etpek@megacap.com.cn Guangzhou Megacap Logistics International Co. Ltd Room 502, 5th Floor, Podium Building of Guangdong Int’l Hotel, 339 East Huanshi Zhong Road, GuangZhou, 510098, China Reservation Tel.: +86 020 87621101, Fax : +86 020 87620837, Email: cancto@ethiopianairlines.com, canres@ethiopianairlines. com, etcancto@ethiopianairlines.com.cn Call Center (China) Tel: 4008 071 787, Email: callcenter@ethiopianairlines.com.cn Cargo Sino-Eth Logistics International Co. Ltd., Room 1615, Main Tower,Guangdong Int’l Bldg, No. 339, Huan Shi Road, East Gunagnzhou Tel.: 0086 020 36066253, Fax: 0086 020 36050345, Email: tim.shen@sino-eth.com Shanghai Megacap Logistics International Co. Ltd. Room 2110, 21st Floor, Ciro’s Plaza, No.388 NanJing West Road, HuangPu District, ShangHai, 200003, China Reservation Tel.: +86 021 60509685, Email: etshacto@ethiopianairlines.com.cn Call Center (China) Tel: 4008 071 787 Email: callcenter@ethiopianairlines.com.cn Cargo Megacap Logistics International Co. Ltd. 325A No. 168 Suhang Road Pudong Int’l Airport, Shanghai, China Tel. : +86 021 6835 4523, Faz: +86 021 68356537, Email: eric.fei@megacap.com.cn
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Hangzhou Cargo Megacap Logistics International Co. Ltd. Room 1809 Building 2, Qiangjiang Int’l Times Plaza, No. 111 Chengxing Road, Hangzhou, China Tel: +86 571 87960600 Fax +86 571 87960677 Email: Jeff.jiang@megacap.com.cn Yiwu Cargo Megacap Logistics International Co. Ltd. 497-2, Chouzhou North Road, Yiwu, Zhejiang, 32200 Tel & Fax: +86 579 85336515, Mobile: +86 182 1777 9264, Email: Jeff.jiang@megacap.com.cn COLOMBIA Aviareps AG, Landsberg Str. 155,80687 Munich, Germany Tel: 49 89 55 25 33 73, Fax: 49 89 54 50 68 42, Email: info@AVIAREPS.com COMOROS Matembezi Travel & Tourism, Itsambouni, Moroni Tel: 2697730422/330400, Fax: 2697730075 Email: agence.matembezi@comorestelecom.com CONGO REPUBLIC Euro World Sarl, Immeuble Arc-En face chambre de Commerce, 1st floor-Centre Ville, Brazzaville Tel: 242 6712020/6713037 Cel: 971505589504, Fax: 31 020 655 3686 Email: a_chandirani@satgurutravel.com/ vinu.abraham@satgurutravel.com CARGO: Bollore Africa Logistics Ltd. @ Congo BZV Tel: +242 05 115 0003, Email: Regis. OUEDRAOGO@bollore.com CARGO: Bollore Africa Logistic, Pointe Noire Tel: +242 05 675 08 87 (mobile) Email: Beni.KIAKOUAMA@bollore.com CONGO DRC Lubumbashi Alamdar Tour & Travels, PO Box: 2976 Lubumbashi Tel: 243 818113377, Fax : 243 1801751933 Email: vazir@jefferytravels.com Kinshasa Cargo: Bollore Africa Logistic, Kinshasa Mobile: (+) 243 995 901 899, (+) 243 991 004 890, (+) 243 995 901 859 Email: kevin.degraeve@bollore.com, richard. panzu@bollore.com, dede.mbevo@bollore.com CYPRUS Orthodoxou Aviation Ltd., Orthodoxou Aviation Ltd, United Nations Street 44, 6042, Larmaca, Cyprus Tel: 357 24 841 150, Fax: 357 24 841 005 Email: aorthodoxou@orthodoxou.com.cy CZECH & SLOVAK REPUBLICS, POLAND Tal Aviation Poland, UL Ujazdowskie, 20 Street, 00478 Warsaw Tel: 48-22-6250467, Fax: 48-22-6253146 Email: rgrabski&tal.pl Tal Aviation Poland Ltd. Tel: 48 22 627 2259, Fax: 48 22 625 3146 Email: ethiopian@tal.pl DENMARK, NORWAY, LITHUANIA & LATVIA Khyber International, Vester Farimagsagade 3, DK-1606 Copenhagen V Denmark Tel: 45 33121188, Fax: 4533933799 Email: sales@khyber.dk, SITA: CPHZZET Cargo: Kales Airline Services DK - 7190 Billund Denmark Tel: 45 75354511, Fax: 45 75354569 DJIBOUTI Globe Travel, Angle de la Place du 27 Juin et de la rue Ras Makonen, PO BOX 1181, Republic de Djibouti Tel: 0025377804783, Fax: 00253 21354848 Email: globe_ethiopianair@intnet.dj FINLAND & ESTONIA Cargo: Kales Airline Services oy Perintötie 2D, 01510 Vantaa, Finland Tel: 358 9 8700 350, Fax: 358 9 8700 3515 FRANCE Air promotion group (APG) 66 Avenue des Champs-Elysées75008 Paris - France Tel: 33 153 771316, Fax: 33 1 53 77 13 05 Email: ethiopianairlines@apg.fr Cargo: Paris Cargo World France SARL PO Box 69003, Roissy CDG Cedex France Tel: 33 1 49 38 90 57, Fax: 33 1 49.38 90 63 Email: cecile@cargoworld.fr, Jhon.sloot@etcargo.fr, paul@cargoworld.fr
GERMANY Frankfurt Ethiopian Airlines, Kaiserstraße 77, 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Sales & Marketing: Tel: 0049 (0) 69 770 673 053, Fax: 0049 (0) 69 770 673 235, Email: salesET.germany@ aviareps.com Reservations: Tel: (0180-5) 355 600 Fax: 0049 (0) 69 770 673 028 Email: reservationsET.germany@aviareps.com Cargo: ATC Aviation, Cargo City Süd, Geb.641, 60549 Frankfurt/Germany Tel: 49 0 69 698053 47, Fax: 49 0 69 698053 20 Email: fra@atc-aviation.com Munchen Aviareps AG, Josephspitalstr, 15, 80331 Munchen, Germany Tel: 49 89 55 25 33 73/ 49 89 54 50 68 42 Email: info@aviareps.com GREECE Gold Star Ltd., 3 Nikodimou & 33 Nikis Str. 10557, Athens, Greece Tel: 30 211 1002030, Fax: 30 210 3246723 Email: sales@goldstar.gr GUINEA GUINEE-VOYAGES, EI CISSE Amacif Bldg Conakrey Guinea, P.O.Box 5842 Tel: 0022463260554/62650181/64260554 (Mobile: 00 224-60260554/ 60340144/60212320), Fax: 224-30478063/22430012611 Email: guineevoyages@yahoo.fr EI CISSE Amacif Bldg Conakrey Guinea Tel: 22460212320/340144 Fax: 224-30478063/22430012611/ 0022430477734, Email: guineevoyages@yahoo.fr HONG KONG Pacific Air (HK) Limited 1608 New East Ocean Center, 9 Science Museum Road, Tsim, Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: 852 39689088, Fax: 852 23012127 Email: anthony.lau@pacificair.com.hkse Cargo: Pacific Air (HK) Limited Tel: 852 2759 4578, Fax: 852 2759 4316 Email: cargoeth@pacificair.com.hk INDIA STIC TRAVELS PVT. LTD., Alps Building, 1st floor, 56 Janpath, New Delhi – 110001 Tel: (011) 23312304 / 23320845, Fax: (011) 23329235, Contact: Ms. Kalpana Ganju, etreservation.del@sticgroup.com STIC TRAVELS PVT. LTD., No 3-5-874/A, Ground floor, Vipanchi Estate, Hyderguda, Hyderabad – 500029, Andhra Pradesh Contact: Mr. Unni Ashok Kumar Tel: (040) 66618755 / 23231451 / 23210131 Fax: (040) 66612966, Email: ashok.kumar@ sticgroup.com, hyderabad@sticgroup.com STIC TRAVELS PVT. LTD., G-5, Imperial Court, 33/1 Cunningham Road, Bangalore – 560052, Karnataka Contact: Mr.Vinod / Mr. Shankar, Tel: (080) 22267613/22202408/22256194 Fax: (080) 22202409, Email: bangalore@sticgroup.com STIC TRAVELS PVT. LTD., Room No 53, 5th floor, Chitrakoot Building, 230A, A.J.C. Bose Road, Kolkata – 700020, West Bengal Contact: Ms. Sudeshna, Tel: (033) 22890440, 22890441, 22890442 Fax: (033) 22890443, Email: kolkata@sticgroup.com STIC TRAVELS PVT. LTD., Temple Tower, 672, Anna Salai Nandanam, Mount Road, Chennai – 600035 Contact: Mr. Rajesh Pandian, Email: rajesh.pandian@sticgroup.com, Mobile: 9840105460 Tel: (044) 24330211/24351829/24330659/ 24330098, Fax: (044) 24330170 BENZY HOLIDAYS PVT LTD, 101 Crystal Arcade, C. G. Road, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 006 Tel: (079) 26403525, 30013430/32 Fax: 26403414, Email: rajesh@benzyethiopian. com, Rajesh Bhatia, Sales Manager Explore Himalaya Travel Inc., Amrit Marg, Bhagawan Bahal, Thamel Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: 00977 1 4423370 (Direct), Mobile: 00977 9851074314, Mr. Rajendra Adhikari LEONARD TRAVELS PVT LTD, Tej House, 5 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Pune 411 001 Tel: (020) 26056451, 26131647 Fax: (020) 2613782 Manager: Vandana Hasabnis 9960231082 or 9623346382, Email: ethiopian@leonardtravels.com MAAS TRAVELS & TOURS LTD, 101 R. M. Center, 5th Floor, Gulshan Avenue, Gulshan 2, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh Tel: (8802) 8835802, 03, 8835460, 8837484 Fax: (8802) 8826678, Email: maas@agni.com, managersalesmaas@gmail.com, amin.maas@ gmail.com, 88028837474 Resi: Azad: 8821569, Mobile: 0171524097 Azad Direct: (8802) 9887711 Resi: Amin: (8802) 9338548 (mobile), +8801819257221 VMS AVIATION AIR SERVICES PVT LTD, 48 A Sir Lester James Peiries Mawatha, Colombo 5, Srilanka Tel: 0094112502149, 011252209 Fax: 0112580737, Email: vikky@eureka.lk Mobile: 0094777752328 SHARAF CARGO PVT LTD (Cargo), Acme Centre, 2nd Floor, Opp Vadilal House, Mithakali Six Roads, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009 Tel: 079 65454080, 65454081/82/83 Fax: 079 66133503 INDONESIA (M/S PT. Ayuberga) Menara Imperium, JI.H.R.Rasima Saidn Kav.1, Jakarta 12980, Indonesia Tel: 62 021 8356214, Fax: 62 021 8363937 Email: Ayubjkt@ayaberga.co.id Cargo: PT global Sarana Angkasa Wisma Soewarna Suit 2k, Soewarna Business Park, Soekarno Hatta International Airport, Jakarta 19110 Indonesia Tel: 62 21 5591 1428, Fax: 62 21 5591 1427 Email: ade@gsa.indonesia.com IRELAND PremAir Marketing Services Ltd, 7 Herbert Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland Tel: 00353-1-663 3933, Fax: 353-1-661-0752 Email: info@premair.ie/eamon.flanagan@ premair.ie Cargo: Heavyweight Air Express Ltd Tel: 353 -1-811-8693, Fax: 353-1-811-8901 Email: hae.ie@heavy-weight.ie ISRAEL Opensky Cargo Ltd Tel: 972 3 972 4338, CTO Tel: 972 3 7971405 Central Reservation Office Tel: 972 3 7971400/1403/1404 Reservation Agent Tel: 972 3 7971407, ShebaMiles & Group desk Email: david@opensky-cargo.co.il ITALY Cargo: ATC Tel: 39 02 506791, Fax: 39 02 55400116 Email: INFO@ATCMIL.IT, SITA: MILGSET/ CRT/CMIZZET, Tel: 39 06 65010715, Fax: 39 06 65010242, Email: INFO@ATCFCO.IT, SITA: ROMGSET JAPAN Tokyo Air System Inc, Toranomon TBL Bldg., 8F, 1-19-9, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001 Japan Tel: 81 3 3593 6730, Fax: 81 3 3593 6534, Email: asipaxtyo@airsystem.jp Osaka Air System Inc., Huwa Tong Bldg., 5F, 4-5-16, Hommachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 541-0053 Japan Tel: 81 6 6265 2158, Fax: 81 6 6265 2501, Email: asipaxosa@airsystem.jp JORDAN Passenger & Cargo: Al Karmel Travel & Tourism Trading, Jabal Ei Hussin Khaleed Bin Waleed St. PO Box 926497 Tel: 962 6 5688301, Fax: 962 6 5688302 Email: alkarmel@alkarmel.com.jo KENYA Cargo: Freight In Time PO Box 41852-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
General Sales Agents | Email: etmanager@ethiopiancargo-kenya.com Tel: 254 020-827044/827248 Fax: 254 020-822709, Cell: 254 721 217141 KUWAIT Al-Sawan Co. W.L.L., M/S Al-Sawan Company W.L.L, Al Ghazali St (Al Rai), Kuwait Tel: 00965-4745190; Fax: 00965-4765661, Email: ceo@alsawan.com MALAYSIA Abadi Aviation Services S/B, Suite 1603, Level 16 Central Plaza, Jalan Sultan Ismail, 50250 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel: (+603) 21412190/21420581/8, Fax : (+603) 21410429, Email: etkul@abadi.com.my Cargo: Abadi Aviation Services S/B, Lot GFM-5D Malaysia Airlines Advanced Cargo Centre, Free Commercial Zone, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, 64000 Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia. Tel: (+603) 87871198/1179, Fax: (+603) 87871108, Email: albertyeoh@abadi.com.my MALTA Discover Momentum, L.L.C, 14350 North 87th Street Suite 265, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85260 USA Tel: 480 707 5566, Fax: 480 707 5575 Email: Jenny-Adams@discovertheworld.com MAURITIUS & MADAGASCAR Agence Megrebine de Voyages, IRELAND BLYTH LTD, Aviation Pole, 5th floor, IBL House, Caudan, Port Louis Mauritius Tel: 230-203-2000/2082, Fax: 230-2124050, Email: Ivedwards@iblgroup.com MEXICO Praca da Liberdade, 130-10th F Suite 10011002, Liberdade, Sao Paulo-Brazil, CEP 01503010, Sao Paulo, Brazil Tel: 551131063295/551186328697 Aviareps AG, Landsberg Str.155,80687 Munich, Germany Tel: 49 89 55 25 33 73, Fax: 49 89 54 50 68 42, Email: info@AVIAREPS.com MOZAMBIQUE Lusoglobo Tours, GSA Ethiopian Airlines, Av. 25 De Setembro nº 270 Edificio Time Square Bloc 4, first floor office no. 6 Tel: 21 314421, Mobile: 82 3144211 /84507 2366, Email: Lusoglobotours@tvcabo.co.mz MAYNAMAR ILG International Aviation, No 126 1st Floor, Bogalayzay Road, Botataung Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar Tel: +66 0 2 126 8026, Fax: +66 0 2126 8080 Email: hiran.s@aviation.ilgintl.org NETHERLANDS Cargo: Global Airlines Services BV Amsterdam Airport Columbus Gebouw 1 Folkstoneweg 34 NL-1118 LM Amsterdam Airport Tel: 0031 20 653 71 00, Fax: 0031 20 653 55 04 Email: info@globalairline.nl NEPAL Explore Himalaya Travel Inc., 745 Amnt March, Bhagbanbahal Thamel, Kathmandu Nepal Tel: 977 1 4418100 NIGER Horizon Distribution (Satguru Travel and Tourism) BP 1114, Rond Point Maourey RCCM: NIA-NI2008-B-1889, Niamey, Niger Tel: 20735255, Fax: 20736934, Email: ssoni@ satguruun.com NIGERIA Cargo: Bollore Africa Logistics Ltd., 2nd Floor NAHCO Building, Muritala Mohammed Int’l. Airport, Ikeja, Lagos Tel: +2348099914944, Mobile: 234 809 555 7905, Email: imma.jemihe@bollore.com OMAN National Travel & Tourism, Postal Code 100 Sultanate of Oman Tel: 00968-246 60300, Fax: 968 24566125 Email: nttoman@omantel.net.om PAKISTAN Trade Winds Associates Pvt. Ltd., 33-Hotel Metropole, MerewetherRoad, Islamabad Tel: 009221-5661712-14, Fax: 009221-5661715 Email: aviation@tradewind.com.pk Karachi Tel: 9221 3566 1712-13-14 & 16 Fax: 9221 3566 1715
Lahore Tel: 9242-3630-5229, 9242-3636-5165 Fax: 9242-3631-4051, Tel: 2823040/2823350, Fax: 2824030 Tel: 6305229/6365165, Fax: 6314051 Cargo: Inter-Fret Consolidators (Pvt.) Ltd. (Pakistan), Suite No. 814-815, 8th floor, Park Avenue, Shahra-e-Faisal, PECHS, Karachi-74500, Pakistan Tel: +92 21 111 111 432, +92 21 3432 6658 Fax: +92 21 345 405 94 Email: shahbaz@mnsaviators.com PERU Praca da Liberdade, 130-10th F Suite 10011002, Liberdade, Sao Paulo-Brazil, CEP 01503010, Sao Paulo, Brazil Tel: 551131063295/551186328697 Aviareps AG, Landsberg Str.155, 80687 Munich, Germany Tel: 49 89 55 25 33 73, Fax: 49 89 54 50 68 42, Email: info@AVIAREPS.com PHILIPPINES Travel Wide Assoc. Sales Phils., Inc 8/F, Unit 817 Peninsula Court Bldg, 8735 Paseo de Roxas Ave, Makati City 1226, Philippines Tel: 63-2-5195014, Fax: 63-2-5198789 Web: www.twasp.com QATAR Fahd Travels, Doha, Qatar Tel: 00974-4432233, Fax: 00974-4432266 Email: fahd-travels@qatar.net.qa Cargo: Fahd Cargo Dar Al kotob area, Diamond Hotel Building, Doha, Qatar Fax: 00974 4431 1010, Tel: 00974 4441 4928 Email: fahdtravels@gmail.com RUSSIA Aviareps, Olympic Plaza, 39, Prospect Mira Bldg. 2, 129110 Moscow, Russia Tel: 7 495 937 59 50, 07 812 740 3820 Fax: 7 495 937 59 51, 07 812 740 3821 Email: info@aviareps.com Cargo: GSA Russia Global Services Ltd. Amathuntos Avenue 8, Marina Complex Block A, No. 2, 4531 Limassol Cyprus Tel: 7 495 7953838, Mobile: 7 905 7801893 Email: Olga.Polyanskaya@aircargopro.com RWANDA Euro World Sarl, Kigali, Satguru International Tel: 250 570440/570442, Fax: 250 570441 Email: a_chandirani@satgurutravel.com Cargo: Cathy Kayitesi Tel: +250 788 46 8120 Email: Cathy.kayitesi@bollore.com www.bollore-africa-logistics.com SAUDI ARABIA Al Zouman Aviation, Jeddah Tel: 966 2 6531222, Fax: 966 2 6517501 Email: aviation@alzouman.com.sa Alkhobar Tel: 966 3 8649000, Fax: 966 3 8941205 SERBIA, SLOVENIA, CROATIA CAT Aviation, Knez Mihajlova 30 Tel: 381 641135735, Email: qat@yubc.net SEYCHELLES Mason’s Travel Pty. Ltd. Revolutgion Avenue PO Box 459 Victoria Mahe Seychelles Tel: 0024 4288888 Fax: 248 4225273/248 4288820 Email: amason@masonstravel.com SIERRA LEONE IPC Tours, 22 Siaka Stevens Street, P.O. Box 1434, Freetown, Sierra Leone Tel: 00 232-221481, Fax: 232 22 227 470 Email: info@ipctravel.com, Email: ipc@sierratel.si SINGAPORE CitiAir & Holidays Pte. Ltd. 48 133 New Bridge Road #14-05 China Town Point, Singapore 059413 Tel: (65) 6538 6860/ 3787/ 2678, Fax: (65) 6538 3183, Email: maplesin@singnet.com.sg Orient Air Pte. Ltd, 05-22,Cargo Agt Bldg D 9 Airline road, Changi Airfreight Center Singapore 819827 Tel: 65 6214 2193/6 or 65 6214 2192, Fax: 65 6214 2199
SOMALIA Safeway Travel, Tourism and Cargo Agency, Maka Al-Mukarama street, Area number 4, Mogadishu Tel: 618304444 Email: safewayagency@hotmail.com SOMALILAND Nobel Travel Agency, 26 Jun Main Road, Emarat Alkhayrm Building, 1st floor office No. 14, Hargiessa, Somaliland Tel: 252 2 528445/4 427575 Email: ntahga@hotmail.com SOUTH AFRICA Cargo: Aero-Link Consulting Warehouse 34, Cargo, Section, P.O Box 1307, O.R. Tambo International Airport, Gauteng, 1627 Tel: +27 11 390 3132/3366, Fax: +27 11 390 3139/3149 Email: jeremy@aero-link.co.za
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TOGO Cargo: Bollore Africa Logistic” @ Togo, Zone Portuaire, Bp 34, Lome Evelyne AGOUDAVI Tel: +228 90054603 Fax: 228 22 27 5878 Email: Evelyne.agoudavi@bollore.com TUNISIA Atlantis International LTD, S.A., 29, Ave Du Japon, Immueble Fatma, 1073 Montplaisir, Tunis, Tunisia Tel: 216 71 908 999/216 906 000, Fax: 216 71 904 110, Email: atlantis@atlantis.tn TURKEY Panorama Havacilik Ve Turizm Ltd., Cumhuriyet Cad. Apt. 185/1, Harbiye 34373, Istanbul, Turkey Tel: 90 212 2315919, Fax: 90 212 2344999 Email: Ethiopian@arartur.com.tr, mdogan@ arartur.com.tr/info@panoramaglobal.net
156 Bram Fischer Drive, Randburg, 2194, South Africa Tel: 27112898264, Fax: 27112898164 Email: g.simpson@holidayholdings.co.2a
Cargo: Airmark GSA Tas. Ltd. Sti.Omar Avni mah, Dumen Sok., No: 11/4 34437, Taksim, Istanbul, Turkey Tel: 90 212 444 1 472, Fax: 90 212 249 474 8 Email: management@air-mark.com
SOUTH KOREA Sharp Aviation K Inc 8th floor, Injo Building, 111-1 Seorin-dong, Jongno-gu Seoul, 110-110, Korea Tel: 82-2-722-1567, Fax: 82 2 7342813 Email: sspaik@sharp.co.kr/www.co.kr
UGANDA Cargo: Freight In Time Ltd., PO Box 70942 Kampala, Uganda Tel: 256 0774 898075, Fax: 256 414 223996 Email: amit@freight-in-time.com
Cargo: Sharp Inc Tel: 82 2 7221567, Fax: 82 2 7342813 Email: sspaik@sharp.co.kr SPAIN & PORTUGAL AirTravel Management: Calle Diego de leone, 69 40A-28006, Madrid, Spain Tel: 34 91 4022718, Fax: 34 91 4015239 Email: airmat@airlinesairmat.com
UNITED KINGDOM Cargo: Air Liaison Ltd - Heavyweight Air Express Group Tel: 44-1753 210 008, Fax: 44-208 831 9309, Email: ethiopianops@air-liaison.net
Cargo: CRS Airline’s Representatives Conchita Supervia, 15–Local 08028 BARCELONA (SPAIN) Tel: 34 931888690, Fax: 34 93409251
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ABU DHABI Salem Travel Agency, bun Dhabi, UAE Tel: 97126273333/6218000, Fax: 009712-6211155, Email: info@salemtravelagency.com
SRI LANKA VMS Aviation Air Services PVT LTD 07-3 81183 (HO) RG, Galadari Hotel 64 Lotus Road, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Hussien: 0094 777590100, Tel: 94 1 447370 / Fax: 94 1 437249, Email: vmstrv@eureka.lk, hussein@vmstravels.net
DUBAI Passenger & Cargo: Asian Air Travel & Tour Agency, N.R.L Group bldg.AlGharhoud, Dubai, UAE Tel: 009714 2826322, Fax: 009714 2825727, Email: hnrml@nrlgroup.ae
SWEDEN Cargo: Kales Airline Services Tel: 46 40 36 38 10, Fax 46 40 36 38 19
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Cargo: Heavy Weight Air Express (HW) Toll Free No: 800 445 2733, Tel: 630 595 2323/571 480 5200, Fax: 630 595 3232, Email: hea.us@heavy-uweight.com
Cargo: Kales Airline Services Tel: 46 8 594 411 90, Fax: 46 8 594 42244 SWITZERLAND Airline center/AVIAREPS, AIRLINECENTER, Badenerstresse, Zurich,Switzerland Tel: 4122 91 98999, Fax: 4122 91 98900 Email: twelti@aviareps.com AIRNAUTIC AG, Peter Merian Str.2 CH-4002, Cargo: Basel Switzerland Basel Tel: 41 61 227 9797 Fax: 41 61 227 9780 Email: info@airnautic.ch SYRIA Passenger & Cargo: Al Tarek Travel & Tourism Fardous St, PO Box 30185 Tel: 963 11 2235225, Fax: 963 11 2211941 Email: moutaz2728@yahoo.com TAIWAN Apex Travel Services Ltd., 6F-3 No. 57, Fi Shin N. Rd Taipei, Taiwan Tel: 886 2 2740 7722, Fax: 886 2 2740 5570 Email: tpetorg@1b.hinet.net Cargo: Global Aviation Service (Taiwan) Inc. Tel: 886 2 2658 0255, Fax: 886 2 2659 7610 Email: cgo@gastwn.com gastwn@ms12.hinet.et TANZANIA Cargo: Bollore Africa Logistic PO Box 1683, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Tel: +(255) 22 2842 850, Mobile: +(255) 784 784 144, Fax: +(255) 22 2 842 181 THAILAND Cargo: Oriole Travel & Tour Tel: 662 2379201 9, Fax: 662 2379200 Email: ealbkket@loxinfo.co.th
VENEZUELA Praca da Liberdade, 130-10th F Suite 10011002, Liberdade, Sao Paulo-Brazil, CEP 01503010, Sao Paulo, Brazil Tel: 551131063295/551186328697 Aviareps AG, Landsberg Str.155,80687 Munich, Germany Tel: 49 89 55 25 33 73, Fax: 49 89 54 50 68 42, Email: info@AVIAREPS.com VIETNAM Hai Au Building (11th Floor) 39b Truong Son Str., Tan Banh Dist Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tel: 84835472481-86, Fax: 84835472487 Email: quangdx@vector-aviation.com.vn Vector Aviation Co. Ltd Hai Au Building (11th Floor), 39B Truong Son Str.,Tan Binh Dist,HO CHI MINH City,Veitnam Tel: 848 3547 2487, Fax: 848 3547 2481-86 YEMEN Marib Travel & Tourism, Beirut Street (Next to Sudanese Embassy Sanaa, Yemen) Tel: 00971-426833, Fax: 009671-426836 Email: manager@marib-tours.com ZAMBIA Cargo: EAS Zambia Ltd Bid Air Cargo, Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, PO Box 37287 Lusaka Tel: 27 11230460021, Fax: 27865910066 ZANZIBAR Passenger & Cargo: Marhaba Hotels Travels & Tours Ltd Tel: 255 24 2231527-28, Fax: Fax: 255 24 2231526, Email: marhaba@zanzinet.com
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JULY-AUGUST MOVIES See descriptions on pages 88-89.
BLOCKBUSTERS WINTER’S TALE ROMANCE PG-13 / 108 minutes MUPPETS MOST WANTED COMEDY PG / 112 minutes WINNIE MANDELA BIOGRAPHY R / 107 minutes VERONICA MARS ACTION PG-13 / 107 minutes ROBOCOP (2014) ACTION PG-13 / 118 minutes THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL COMEDY R / 99 minutes THE ART OF THE STEAL ACTION PG-13 / 90 minutes RIO 2 FAMILY PG / 101 minutes A LONG WAY DOWN DRAMA PG-13 / 96 minutes CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER ACTION PG-13 / 136 minutes THE LEGEND OF HERCULES ACTION PG-13 / 99 minutes
300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE ACTION R / 103 HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS AUSTRALIA DRAMA PG - 13 / 165 minutes DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY COMEDY PG - 13 / 93 minutes INCEPTION ACTION PG - 13 / 148 minutes INVICTUS DRAMA PG - 13 / 134 minutes FRENCH CONNECTION ACTION R / 104 minutes THE DEPARTED CRIME R / 151 minutes
THE DESCENDANTS COMEDY R / 115 minutes TRAINING DAY ACTION R / 122 minutes GULLIVER’S TRAVELS ADVENTURE PG / 88 minutes GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES COMEDY NR / 91 minutes THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING ACTION PG-13 / 178 minutes THE LORD OF THE RINGS 2: THE TWO TOWERS ACTION PG-13 / 179 minutes THE LORD OF THE RINGS 3: RETURN OF THE KING ACTION PG-13 / 201 minutes
THE FUGITIVE ACTION PG - 13 / 130 minutes THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY DRAMA PG-1 3 / 135 minutes THE DARJEELING LIMITED DRAMA R / 92 minutes
KIDS CLASSICS RIO COMEDY PG / 96 minutes NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN COMEDY PG / 105 minutes EPIC FAMILY PG / 102 minutes
ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS ADVENTURE PG / 94 minutes ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED COMEDY PG / 87 minutes AFRICAN MOVIES AFTER THE PROPOSAL FAMILY NR / 104 minutes MARRIED BUT LIVING SINGLE DRAMA NR / TBC minutes UNDER YOUR SKIN DRAMA NR / 109 minutes HORIZON BEAUTIFUL COMEDY NR / 90 minutes ALDEWELEM COMEDY NR / 120 minutes YETEKEFELEBET DRAMA / NR / 105 minutes HINDI MOVIES CHENNAI EXPRESS COMEDY PG / 135 minutes
THE LUNCHBOX ROMANCE PG / 104 minutes GHANCHAKKAR ACTION PG-13 / 129 minutes ASIAN MOVIES FIRESTORM ADVENTURE PG-13 / 109 minutes DIVA DRAMA PG / 102 minutes THE VIRAL FACTOR ACTION PG-13 / 122 minutes THE WAY WE DANCE DRAMA G / 110 minutes EUROPEAN MOVIES QUAI D’ORSAY COMEDY R / 117 minutes BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN FAMILY G / 104 minutes 100% CACHEMIRE DRAMA PG-13 / 93 minutes UN BEAU DIMANCHE DRAMA G / 98 minutes
SATYAGRAHA DRAMA PG-13 / 146 minutes
JULY-AUGUST TELEVISION See descriptions on pages 90-92. KIDS GOOD LUCK CHARLIE Dance Off / 30 mins THE A.N.T FARM / Some EnchANTed Evening / 30 mins SHAKE IT UP / Give It Up / 30 mins DOC MCSTUFFINS / The New Girl/Wrap It Up / 30 mins PHINEAS AND FERB / The Lake Nose Monster, Parts 1 & 2 / 30 mins FISH HOOKS / Bea Becomes an Adult Fish/Doggonit / 30 mins COMEDY
FRIENDS / The One After Ross Says Rachel / 30 mins DRAMA GREY’S ANATOMY / Change Is Gonna Come, Love Addiction / 60 mins THE MENTALIST / Red Bulls, His Red Right Hand / 60 mins FRINGE / Liberty / 60 mins DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES / Back in Business / 60 mins BONES / The Body in the Bag, The Bullet in the Brain, The Sin in the Sisterhood / 60 mins
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER / Weekend at Barney’s / 30 mins
TOUCH / Broken, Ghosts, Reunions / 60 mins
NEW GIRL / Chicago, First Date, Bachelorette Party / 30 mins
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS / Moments Later / 60 mins
TWO AND A HALF MEN / A Good Time in Central Africa / 30 mins
SUPERNATURAL / Pilot / 60 mins
PLANET HOMEBUDDIES / The Sisters Here! / 30 mins THE BIG BANG THEORY / The Vengeance Formulation, The Gorilla Experiment, The Maternal Congruence / 30 mins LONGMEN EXPRESS / Episode 1 / 50 mins 86
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WHITE COLLAR / Pilot / 60 mins THE CLOSER / Pilot / 60 mins DISCOVERY FOOTBALL’S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL TEAMS / Spain 2010s, France 1998–2000 / 30 mins
ANCIENT MEGASTRUCTURES / Angkor Wat / 30 mins
STARS OF BRAZIL / Neymar / 30 mins
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NAKED PLANET / Kilimanjaro / 60 mins
VIDEOFASHION DESIGNERS / Louis Vuitton / 30 mins
SHAVE IT / 5 mins
CHINA’S MEGA PROJECTS / N/A / 60 mins
FOOTBALL’S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL TEAMS / Christiano Ronaldo / 30 mins
HANDICRAFT / N/A / 60 mins WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE / John Hurt / 60 mins ENGINEERING CONNECTIONS / Super Tanker / 60 mins AMERICAN PICKERS / Traders of the Last Parts / 60 mins BRAZIL - A NATION EXPECTS / N/A / 60 mins HISTORY OF FOOTBALL - THE BEAUTIFUL GAME / Africa, Football Cultures / 60 mins LIFESTYLE FABULOUS BAKER BROTHERS / Season 1, Episode 6 / 30 mins JOURNEY INTO WINE - SPAIN & PORTUGAL / Riberia del Duero / 30 minss STORAGE WARS / Orange You Glad Dan Sold it Again? / 30 mins
JAMIE’S 30 MINUTE MEALS / Roast Beef / 30 mins
MILK, NO SUGAR / 4 mins DR. KNOWGOOD: LION’S PRIDE / 4 mins HISTORY OF PETS / 6 mins MUSHROOM MONSTER / 7 mins
ROAD TO RIO / Latest Episode / 30 mins
THE BLACK HOLE / 3 mins
HOME / N/A / 30 mins
HEARTSTRINGS / 3 mins
LEGEND OF MAGIC / N/A / 30 mins
FOREVER MIME / 6 mins
THE FOOD HUNTER / The Foodhunter In Northern India / 30 mins TECH TOYS 360 / Porsche 911 Carrera and Williams Warns Personal Brewery / 30 mins COUNTING CARS / Episode 3 / 30 mins GRAND DESIGNS / Kennington / 30 mins AMERICAN RESTORATION / Vacuum Daze / 30 mins SUPERHOMES / Quest for Perfection / 30 mins
ROB ‘N’ RON / 4 mins THE BARBERLESS BARBER / 6mins DESTINATION GUIDES PARIS / 30 mins GHANA / 30 mins MADRID / 30 mins VIENNA / 30 mins NIGERIA / 30 mins ADDIS ABABA / 30 mins
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JULY/AUGUST MOVIES BLOCKBUSTERS WINNIE MANDELA BIOGRAPHY R / 107 minutes AFRICAN MOVIES AFTER THE PROPOSAL* FAMILY NR / 104 minutes
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JULY/AUGUST MOVIES BLOCKBUSTERS WINTER’S TALE ROMANCE PG-13 / 108 minutes EUROPEAN MOVIES QUAI D’ORSAY* COMEDY R / 117 minutes
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JULY/AUGUST MOVIES BLOCKBUSTERS WINTER’S TALE ROMANCE PG-13 / 108 minutes HINDI MOVIES CHENNAI EXPRESS* COMEDY PG / 135 minutes
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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER / 30 mins FABULOUS BAKER BROTHERS / 30 mins HISTORY OF FOOTBALL - THE BEAUTIFUL GAME / 60 mins
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WINTER’S TALE ROMANCE PG-13 / 108 minutes
WINTER’S TALE ROMANCE PG-13 / 108 minutes
WINNIE MANDELA BIOGRAPHY R / 107 minutes
WINNIE MANDELA BIOGRAPHY R / 107 minutes
ASIAN MOVIES FIRESTORM* ADVENTURE PG-13 / 109 minutes
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CLASSIC MOVIES INVICTUS* DRAMA PG - 13 / 134 minutes
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THE BIG BANG THEORY / 30 mins
THE BIG BANG THEORY / 30 mins
THE BIG BANG THEORY / 30 mins
THE BIG BANG THEORY / 30 mins
FOOTBALL’S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL TEAMS / 30 mins
FOOTBALL’S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL TEAMS / 30 mins
FOOTBALL’S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL TEAMS / 30 mins
FOOTBALL’S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL TEAMS / 30 mins
AMERICAN PICKERS / 60 mins
AMERICAN PICKERS / 60 mins
AMERICAN PICKERS / 60 mins
AMERICAN PICKERS / 60 mins
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AFRICA/WEST ASIA to ADDIS
JULY/AUGUST MOVIES BLOCKBUSTERS VERONICA MARS ACTION PG-13 / 107 minutes AFRICAN MOVIES MARRIED BUT LIVING SINGLE* DRAMA NR / TBC minutes
EUROPE to ADDIS
JULY/AUGUST MOVIES BLOCKBUSTERS MUPPETS MOST WANTED COMEDY PG / 112 minutes EUROPEAN MOVIES BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN* FAMILY G / 104 minutes
INDIA to ADDIS
JULY/AUGUST MOVIES BLOCKBUSTERS MUPPETS MOST WANTED COMEDY PG / 112 minutes HINDI MOVIES SATYAGRAHAV* DRAMA PG-13 / 146 minutes
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MUPPETS MOST WANTED COMEDY PG / 112 minutes
MUPPETS MOST WANTED COMEDY PG / 112 minutes
VERONICA MARS ACTION PG-13 / 107 minutes
VERONICA MARS ACTION PG-13 / 107 minutes
ASIAN MOVIES DIVA* DRAMA PG / 102 minutes
CLASSIC MOVIES NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN COMEDY PG / 105 minutes
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NEW GIRL / 30 mins
TWO AND A HALF MEN / 30 mins
TWO AND A HALF MEN / 30 mins
TWO AND A HALF MEN / 30 mins
TWO AND A HALF MEN / 30 mins
JAMIE’S 30 MINUTE MEALS / 30 mins
STARS OF BRAZIL / 30 mins
STARS OF BRAZIL / 30 mins
STARS OF BRAZIL / 30 mins
STARS OF BRAZIL / 30 mins
ENGINEERING CONNECTIONS / 60 mins
ENGINEERING CONNECTIONS / 60 mins
ENGINEERING CONNECTIONS / 60 mins
ENGINEERING CONNECTIONS / 60 mins
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BLOCKBUSTERS 300: Rise of an Empire The Greek general Themistocles battles an invading army of Persians led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, commander of the Persian navy. A Long Way Down Four people meet on New Year’s Eve and form a surrogate family to help one another weather the difficulties of their lives. Captain America: The Winter Soldier Steve Rogers teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C. Muppets Most Wanted While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped up in a European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit-the-Frog lookalike and his dastardly sidekick. Rio 2 It’s a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they’re hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. RoboCop (2014) In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy — a loving husband and father, and a good cop — is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees its chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.
The Art of the Steal Crunch Calhoun, a semi-reformed art thief, agrees to get his old gang back together to pull off one last heist. The Grand Budapest Hotel The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The Legend of Hercules The origin story of the the mythical Greek hero. Betrayed by his stepfather, the king, and exiled and sold into slavery because of a forbidden love, Hercules must use his formidable powers to fight his way back to his rightful kingdom. Veronica Mars Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown — just in time for her high-school reunion — in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who’s embroiled in a murder mystery. Winnie Mandela A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela, from her childhood through her marriage and her husband’s incarceration. Winter’s Tale A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her
Inception A skilled extractor is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible.
CLASSIC MOVIES Australia Australia centers on an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. Reluctantly, she joins forces with a cattle driver to drive 2,000 heads of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story A small local gym is threatened with extinction by a gleaming sportsand-fitness palace unless a group of social rejects can rise to victory in the ultimate dodgeball competition. French Connection William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Together with her best friend, Dorothy, showgirl Lorelei embarks on a boat trip to Paris, where she intends to marry millionaire Gus Esmond. En route, the girls are bedeviled by private detective Malone, hired by Esmond’s father to make certain that Lorelei isn’t just another golddigger. Gulliver’s Travels Jack Black is Lemuel Gulliver, a lowly mailroom clerk at a New York newspaper. After Gulliver bluffs his way into an assignment writing about the Bermuda Triangle, he goes there only to be transported to an undiscovered land: Lilliput.
Invictus Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African president, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: to enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The Bridges of Madison County Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s. The Darjeeling Limited The Darjeeling Limited is an emotional comedy about three brothers reforging family bonds after the death of their father. The eldest son, played by Owen Wilson, hopes to reconnect with his two younger siblings by taking them on a train trip across the vibrant and sensual landscape of India. The Departed An undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat. The Descendants The Descendants is set in Hawaii and follows the unpredictable journey of an American family at a crossroads. Matt King, a husband and father
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of two girls, must re-examine his past and navigate his future when his wife is in a boating accident off Waikiki. The Fugitive Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring A meek hobbit of The Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring and the dark lord Sauron. The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron’s new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. The Lord of the Rings 3: Return of the King Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron’s army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. Training Day On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes on a 24-hour training course with a rogue detective who isn’t what he appears. KIDS CLASSICS Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked On vacation aboard a luxury cruise ship, Alvin, Simon, Theodore and the Chipettes are up to their usual antics, turning the ship into their personal playground, until they become ‘chipwrecked’ on a desert island. Epic A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group of characters in order to save their world — and ours. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs When Sid’s attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother and sent to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him. Rio When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with this bird of his dreams. Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake.
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Firestorm A storm is heading to the city, and with it comes another occurrence so destructive, it vows to bring down everything it touches. The Viral Factor IDC Agent Jon is mortally wounded when he is ambushed while escorting a witness from Jordan to the Netherlands. He is told he has only two weeks left before he becomes paralyzed. Jon decides to spend his final days with his ill mother in Beijing. The Way We Dance High-school graduate Fleur lives for dance. Every moment she’s awake she is plugged into her music, planning out new hip-hop moves in her head. Unfortunately, she is trapped . . . working at the family restaurant scooping tofu all day long. But when her university application is accepted, her prayers are answered. WINNIE MANDELA
AFRICAN MOVIES After the Proposal The meddling mother of three unmarried daughters puts immense pressure on them to find husbands. When a suitor does finally propose to the oldest daughter, it looks like the family’s unreasonable demands will drive him away. Aldewelem Tihut is set up to make a fool out of her best friend’s cousin, Melhik, who is desperately seeking a sweetheart. Thinking that she has no idea about his identity, Melhik tries to charm the young girl he only knows as Lily into falling for him. Horizon Beautiful A soccer magnate on a promotion tour in Addis Ababa gets mixed up in a fake kidnapping. His supposed liberator is a 12-year old street kid with a plan — to have the Godfather
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of soccer take him to ballplayer’s heaven. Married but Living Single A career woman is at loggerheads with her husband, who feels neglected after she is promoted at work. Under pressure she takes leave from work but still the couple remains in conflict. Under Your Skin A man confined to a wheelchair after a road accident is intrigued rather than put-off by his forthright neighbor, who vehemently curses him out one day for causing too much noise in their building. They soon become close, but circumstances beyond their control tear them apart. Yetekefelebet A man getting confused between his wife and his secretary, meanwhile his wife is trying to save her marriage.
HINDI MOVIES Chennai Express The story of a Mumbai boy who embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu, only to fulfil the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a South Indian girl hailing from an orthodox family.
EUROPEAN MOVIES 100% Cachemire Aleksandra has a fantastic husband, Cyrille, a fantastic riverside apartment in Paris, a fantastic lover and a fantastic job. In short, she’s got BELLE ET SEBASTIEN it all . . . except the ultimate accessory: a child. Belle et Sébastien It’s the story of a lonely boy and a wild dog. It’s the adventure of an indestructible friendship. It’s the extraordinary tale of a resourceful and appealing child in the middle of World War II.
Ghanchakkar Sanju, Pandit and Idris plan to rob a bank and share the money. After executing the robbery successfully, the trio decide that Sanju will keep the money until the heat has died down. But problems arise when Sanju forgets where he put the money, and when his partners return for their share.
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SHORT MOVIES Dr. Knowgood: Lion’s Pride A lion has lost his voice. Now even the birds seem to laugh at him. Perhaps a case for the monkey doctor? Forever Mime Two mimes fight over the romantic affection of the girl who runs the house of horror. They get caught up in their act so much it comes to an epic battle. Heartstrings Falling in love only lasts as long as a piece of string. History Of Pets A man looks back at his life, at the various pets he’s had and why none of them lasted particularly long. Milk, No Sugar An elegant ginger cat takes his tea on a rooftop but is persistently bothered by a loathsome greenfl. Mushroom Monster If you were a little, hairy Mushroom Monster, how far would you go to get your paws on the biggest mushroom ever? Rob ‘n’ Ron In a miniature spaghetti Western live two outlaw brothers: Rob and Ron. Rob is planning their biggest heist yet. Shave It In the wilderness of the forests where giant bulldozers are tearing apart the woods there is a monkey
Satyagraha Dwarka, an idealistic retired teacher, is imprisoned after he reprimands an arrogant government employee. In order to get him out of jail, Manav, an ambitious capitalist, starts a campaign using social media and is backed by the press. As the movement gathers strength, politicians and bureaucrats start to panic. Will this revolution defeat corruption? The Lunchbox A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life. Together, they build a fantasy world through notes in the lunchbox. ASIAN MOVIES Diva Ten years ago in Hong Kong, musicindustry executive Man Kin-sun took wannabe singer J Yim under his wing and built her into a modern diva, giving sold-out concerts at Hong Kong’s Coliseum. Now, Kin-sun wants to expand J’s career into film.
Quai d’Orsay Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is tall and impressive — a man with style, attractive to women. He also happens to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the land of enlightenment: France.
that accidentally finds a shaving machine and decides to use it.
Un Beau Dimanche Baptiste is an inspiring primaryschool teacher who finds himself looking after Mathias, one of his students for a weekend. When Baptiste takes Mathias back to his mother — the radiant, impulsive Sandra — he is instantly enchanted
The Black Hole A sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole — and then greed gets the better of him.
The Barberless Barber A scruffy man tries desperately to clean up for a job interview, ending up at “The Barberless Barbers.”
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KIDS Doc McStuffins The New Girl/Wrap It Up Doc gets a doll from Japan called Kiko, and she wonders why her legs are so weak. Niles, Donny’s toy crane, refuses to have his bandage removed. Fish Hooks Bea Becomes an Adult Fish/Doggonit Bea decides to grow up and get a job working for Fish Flakes, Inc., but realizes she misses her old carefree life. Meanwhile, Oscar and Milo get mistaken for her children at her office and get sent to daycare with a bunch of baby fish. Good Luck Charlie Dance Off Teddy and Ivy go on a double date. Gabe tries to get out of homework. Phineas and Ferb The Lake Nose Monster, Parts 1 & 2 The family goes camping on a lake and the pair has to step in to stop the evil Dr. Doofenschmirtz, helping out the famed Lake Nose Monster. The A.N.T Farm Some EnchANTed Evening Fletcher asks Chyna out on a date, but she lies and says she already has a boyfriend. This forces Fletcher to pretend to have a girlfriend to try to make Chyna jealous. Shake It Up Give It Up Rocky and CeCe participate in a dance marathon on Shake It Up, Chicago! COMEDY Friends The One After Ross Says Rachel Everyone is shocked to hear Ross
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say Rachel’s name instead of Emily’s, but they continue with the ceremony. Emily is really mad at Ross and says she hates him at the party. How I Met Your Mother Bad Crazy Ted’s attempt to break up with his crazy new girlfriend does not go as planned, and Robin’s fear of holding Marvin leads to an adventure with Mike Tyson. How I Met Your Mother The Ashtray
When Ted receives an unexpected call from The Captain, the gang reminisces about their last awkward encounter with him. How I Met Your Mother Weekend at Barney’s Barney is forced to break out “The Playbook” one final time to keep Ted from getting back together with Jeanette and taking her to his wedding. Longmen Express Episode 1 “Longman Express” is a kung-fu comedy. Watch as owner Lu San Jin overcomes the hilarious dayto-day problems of running his express business. New Girl Chicago Nick’s father dies and the friends travel to Chicago. Nick’s family views him as the responsible one and has him plan an Elvis-themed funeral. New Girl First Date Jess and Nick go on their first official date but try to decide if it is really a date or not. Wilson and Schmidt are left to themselves and realize Nick is the glue that holds them together. New Girl Bachelorette Party Jess hosts a bachelorette party for Cece. Cece shows up with her fiancé’s aunt and things turn Grated. The guys throw Shivrang a bachelor party. Planet Homebuddies The Sisters Here!
“Planet Homebuddies” follows the lives of six 20- and 30-somethings — three guys and three girls — who because of various circumstances gather together in a large loft. The Big Bang Theory The Vengeance Formulation Sheldon plans revenge after Kripke humiliates him on the radio. Howard has doubts about his relationship with Bernadette. The Big Bang Theory The Gorilla Experiment Sheldon attempts to help Penny understand physics to impress Leonard, while Howard becomes jealous when Bernadette takes an interest in Leonard’s research. The Big Bang Theory The Maternal Congruence Leonard’s mother makes a visit, to his dismay and Sheldon’s delight. Two and a Half Men A Good Time in Central Africa Charlie gets a replacement housekeeper while Berta is out for the weekend, and Lyndsey’s ex-husband begins scaring Alan when Alan and Lyndsey begin dating again. DRAMA Bones The Body in the Bag Paisly Johnston’s fiancée finds a body in her shower. The body had been in the running water for three days and is identified as her missing Facebook friend, Jenny Yang.
Bones The Bullet in the Brain The city anxiously anticipates the arrival of Heather Taffet, more notoriously known as “The Gravedigger,” for her final appeal after being sentenced to death for a kidnap-murder. Bones The Sin in the Sisterhood A body disguised as a scarecrow is found with a bullet wound in a remote cornfield, and the team is forced to work against the clock to avoid a storm and potential complications that would affect the evidence. Booth and Brennan interrogate the victim’s three wives. Desperate Housewives Back in Business Bree’s new cookbook and entrepreneurial success has the women of Wisteria Lane feeling jealous — especially Lynette, who’s longing for a taste of her breadwinning days as an ad executive. Fringe Liberty As the Observers evaluate Michael and begin to learn of his abilities and potential, Olivia embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue him. Grey’s Anatomy Change Is Gonna Come The interns, now residents, deal with their own crops of interns. Callie struggles with her new position, and Burke makes a decision. Grey’s Anatomy Love Addiction Lexie persists in trying to get to know Meredith, and Mama Burke descends once more.
Pretty Little Liars Moments Later Moments after Hanna is hit by a car, the girls’ world is turned upside down. “A” is no longer content playing a game of cat and mouse with the Pretty Little Liars. Supernatural Pilot Sam and Dean Winchester were trained by their father to hunt the creatures of the supernatural. Now, their father has mysteriously disappeared while hunting the demon that killed their mother 22 years ago. The Closer Pilot Brenda Johnson arrives in L.A., where she faces resentment during her first investigation involving a woman beaten to death whose suspected murderer has disappeared, along with all evidence of his existence. The Mentalist Red Bulls Patrick and the rest of the CBI team are forced to work together with Patrick’s nemesis in the office in order to find a kidnapping victim. The Mentalist His Red Right Hand Red John strikes again, this time in the CBI office — leaving three agents dead and Sam Bosco in critical condition. Touch Broken Off-screen, Jake reflects on radio waves. Later he turns radios to a frequency that delivers static. Desperation sends Lucy on a solo expedition to find Calvin. Touch Ghosts There is torrential rainstorm passing over Los Angeles. It coincides with the arrival of Dutch, an old Special Forces friend of Martin and Trevor’s who Martin has called to the Breakwire offices to help protect Jake and find Amelia.
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Touch Reunions Following the Ortiz incident at Breakwire, Martin, Jake and Lucy either have to go on the run or go into hiding because of the detailed information that was inadvertently provided to the authorities.
state of preservation, is unrivaled. Its mightiness and magnificence bespeak a pomp and a luxury surpassing that of a pharaoh or a shah jahan, an impressiveness greater than that of the pyramids, an artistic distinctiveness as fine as that of the Taj Mahal.
White Collar Pilot With a few months of his four-year sentence left, criminal mastermind Neal Caffrey escapes from maximum-security prison to save his relationship with his girlfriend.
Brazil - A Nation Expects N/A “Brazil - A Nation Expects” offers unique access and insight into Brazil’s preparations for the biggest sporting event of 2014: the World Cup. The programme follows the players behind the scenes as they train, travel, relax in the hotel and bond as a squad.
DISCOVERY American Pickers Traders of the Last Parts With Civil War relics and bargain basement prices, the guys scour an extraordinary New Jersey collection. After years of searching, Mike finally zeroes in on a rare 1911 Harley motor he needs to complete a restoration project, but there’s a catch.
China’s Mega Projects N/A At an incredible pace and scale, China is developing megaprojecs that could shape the country and the Greater China region’s future. In Beijing, the largest underground train network in history is being built to solve the city’s traffic congestion.
Ancient Megastructures Angkor Wat Angkor Wat, in its beauty and
Engineering Connections Super Tanker Richard Hammond reveals the ingenious engineering required
to transport one of the most potentially hazardous cargoes in the world in some of the biggest vessels afloat. Ethiopian Wildlife Discover the Simien Mountains, the Great Rift Valley and the Bale Mountains. This show explores the natural heritage and many spectacular species and that inhabit this wildlife paradise. Football’s Greatest International Teams Spain 2010s From the flamboyant World Cup– winning side of Brazil in 1970 to the untouchable reigning world and European champions, Spain, this series take an in-depth look at 16 of the most well-regarded international teams of past and present generations.
economics in America and politics in Spain and Ghana. Naked Planet Kilimanjaro The award-winning “Naked Planet” climbs and explores Africa’s highest peak: Mount Kilimanjaro. Standing at 5,895 meters and comprising three volcanic cones, Kilmanjaro towers over Tanzania. Who Do You Think You Are John Hurt Series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past. In this episode, actor John Hurt dscovers something unexpected about his Irish heritage and the country he considers home. LIFESTYLE
Football’s Greatest International Teams France 1998–2000 In this episode, we join the incredible 1998 French international squad, featuring Zinedane Zidane and Emanuel Petit, whose last-minute goal led the squad to win that year’s World Cup tournament.
American Restoration Vacuum Daze Rick gets a chill when a beat-up 50s Bevador beverage cooler comes in for a fix-up. Then, when a rare 40s Rexair vacuum/air filter arrives in pieces, Rick wonders if he’ll ever be able to puzzle it all back together.
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want to convert and extend a landmark 150-year-old water tower in central London. Grade II listed, but utterly derelict — with 6-foot-thick walls and crowned by a huge steel tank — it’s an almighty task. Home N/A “Home” looks at traditional dwellings in Singapore, China, India, Japan and Korea. It explores how architecture and furnishings reflect the local geography, climate and customs. It witnesses how a resident’s way of living embodies notions about homes and the hopes and ideals that people hold. Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals Roast Beef Thought that roast beef took a whole afternoon? Jamie finds a clever way to cook a filet of beef in under 30 minutes, along with Yorkshire puddings, carrots and a watercress salad. Journey Into Wine - Spain & Portugal Riberia del Duero “Journey into Wine” sets the infectious personality and formidable wine knowledge of French wine expert Isabelle Legeron amongst the world’s vineyards. Isabelle’s honest, simple approach to wine creates a valuable insight to what is all too often a rarefied and obscure world. Legend of Magic N/A Watch a showcase of magic as Liu Qian invites internationally recognized performers to utilize ordinary, everyday objects to create illusions of the finest. In addition to dazzling displays from these masters of illusionary arts, celebrity guests also take to the stage to participate in extraordinary entertainment.
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famous for giving us some of the most talented players to ever grace the field. These players include the likes of Pelé, Ronaldo, Socrates and Garrincha. Storage Wars Orange You Glad Dan Sold It Again? The buyers head to Burbank, California. A new buyer challenges both Barry and Jarrod and makes off with a packed locker. Barry finds a
trunk, and it gives him a reason to visit his cobbler. Superhomes Quest for Perfection This jam-packed episode features a three-story super-yacht and a British developer who is planning an Indonesian-style home in Barbados. Tech Toys 360 Porsche 911 Carrera and Williams Warns Personal Brewery “Tech Toys 360” travels to Stuttgart, Germany, to experience the build of one of the greatest automobiles to grace the earth: the Porsche 911 Carrera. The Food Hunter The Foodhunter in Northern India In the desert of Rajasthan, Mark Brownstein is looking for the Kerbush that thrives at the border of the sand dunes. In Udaipur he comes upon the “elephant apple,” a fruit with an enormously hard shell that is delicious but long forgotten, even in India. Videofashion Designers Louis Vuitton At one time known solely for its luxurious luggage, the house of Louis Vuitton has since made a name for itself on the international ready-to-wear scene. In 1997, Marc Jacobs was appointed creative director, securing the house as a must-see at Paris Fashion Week.
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DESTINATION GUIDES Addis Ababa Welcome to Ethiopia’s stunning capital city. With a population of more than 2 million, Addis Ababa is the cosmopolitan center of this beautiful country. Madrid Madrid is the political, economic and cultural center of Spain. While it possesses modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of its historic neighborhoods. Nigeria The most populous country on the African continent, Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa and boasts some of the most beautiful landscapes in the Southern Equator. Ghana With a warm local atmosphere and much to see, Ghana is fast becoming the gateway to Africa for international visitors. Visit Accra in the dry season for a trip you will not forget. Paris Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It is situated on the Seine River, in the north of the country, at the heart of the Île-deFrance region. Vienna Austria’s capital city and former home to the Habsburg Court, with imperial architecture and historical history that make it a must-see for any travel enthusiast.
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JULY-AUGUST ALBUM COMPILATIONS ETHIOPIAN AFRICAN Enjoy a selection of albums brimming with sounds from the heart of Africa. Listen to collections from Yabba Funk, Victor Deme, Angelique Kidjo and many more.
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ETHIOPIAN INSTRUMENTAL Ethiopian Instrumental is an elaborate and expressive collection of instrumental pieces. Theodros Mitiku, Tilaye Gebre and The Express Band, among others, will soothe you completely through a mixture of their delicate and energetic sounds.
ALL THAT JAZZ All That Jazz is a concoction of every character within jazz. A handful of artists, such as Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole and Donald Byrd, give warming performances in this mix. From old classics to smooth contemporary, All That Jazz is sure to cover all corners of this nonchalant musical style. EASY LISTENING Easy Listening allows you to switch off and recline, as a very laid-back medley of tunes sing you into total serenity. Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and Lisa Hannigan perform their most soothing songs to help you completely repose.
Enjoy collections from some of the greatest artists in Ethiopia today. Artist like Jamboo Joote, Tikue Weldu and Mohammed Tawil. Sit back and appreciate.
ETHIOPIAN CLASSIC Here, enjoy albums full of world-renowned performers, orchestras and soloists, performing major works from some of history’s greatest composers: Bach, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and many more.
ETHIOPIAN COUNTRY Here, a fusion of Country albums for you to enjoy. A range of artists, from Buddy Miller to Sara Evans, are here to share a collection of their hits with you.
ETHIOPIAN HIP HOP/R&B A melodic mix of Hip-Hop tunes and R&B hits, with a large selection of albums for you to listen to. This includes artists such as Snoop Dogg, Tinie Tempah and Jennifer Hudson.
CHART HITS Chart Hits is a channel solely dedicated to the latest chart-toppers in pop and rock. If you want to be up-to-speed with the most current hits in music today, then tune into Chart Hits, where Gotye, Lana Del Rey and Beyoncé will definitely activate your musical taste buds. COUNTRY This channel offers a blend of cooling Country sounds. With hits from both classic and modern artists, you are sure to experience the refreshing flavors of authentic country music. Jeff Bridges, Emmylou Harris and Lady Antebellum perform some of their best works for you today.
ETHIOPIAN INSTRUMENTAL Here, we offer an expressive and inspiring collection of Instrumental albums for you to enjoy.
ETHIOPIAN JAZZ From old classics to smooth contemporary, here you will find an excellent collection of Jazz albums. You’ll find every great Jazz musician, from Miles Davis to Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong.
ETHIOPIAN KIDS WORLD HITS World Hits is an eclectic collection of music from all over the globe. This channel allows you to experience all ranges of talent in all ranges of music. Artists such as Salah Al Zadjali, Destra and Axelle Red take this opportunity to introduce you to their own personal worlds, through the medium of music. CLASSICAL COLLECTION Classical Collection showcases world-renowned performers, orchestras and soloists, performing major works from some of the best composers in history. The London Symphony Orchestra with Josef Krips, Walter Klien and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra provide a classical assortment. CLASSIC ROCK Rife with roaring riffs and smooth bass lines, Classic Rock is a channel wholly dedicated to true rock n’ roll. Here, Pink Floyd, T. Rex and Jimi Hendrix play a handful of the greatest rock songs in history.
Here, a cheerful compilation of albums, full of upbeat songs for all your little ones to enjoy.
ETHIOPIAN OLDIES Enjoy taking a trip down memory lane through this extensive collection of nostalgic albums. This includes some of the greats, such as Al Green, Elvis Presley and Fleetwood Mac.
ETHIOPIAN POP If you’re looking for the latest hits, then enjoy this medley of the most current Pop albums out now. This includes albums from Beyonce, Lady Gaga and David Guetta.
ETHIOPIAN ROCK Relish in a sea of Rock, with albums from legendary rock n’ rollers to the latest stars — Bob Dylan, The Strokes and The Black Keys.
GOLDEN OLDIES Take a walk down memory lane with a compilation of nostalgic hits. Golden Oldies presents R.E.M., Tina Turner and Duran Duran, who lead the way with a string of classics, taking you right back to when they were No. 1.
ETHIOPIAN WORLD Here, enjoy a diverse collection of hit albums from all over the globe! Amplify your cultural consciousness through sounds from Ely Guerra, Ocean Hai and Oliver Haidt.
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