G-15 News

Turkey's TİKA Supports Rohingya in the Fight against COVID19

<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9LqL5GZsNZTsTs07Uks9gTXBp-3P89dBGkQVL8m-hCe9YSguD1ns9q7wToDqTV5oGSW1uvJT7N38nlvF_FEdZ-yzyDAUXHsRKg3bhZRpKoDJxIX-cxpqq93xT-WdknOcWeC9IGWLza2O0/s1600/1596490798825109-0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
    <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9LqL5GZsNZTsTs07Uks9gTXBp-3P89dBGkQVL8m-hCe9YSguD1ns9q7wToDqTV5oGSW1uvJT7N38nlvF_FEdZ-yzyDAUXHsRKg3bhZRpKoDJxIX-cxpqq93xT-WdknOcWeC9IGWLza2O0/s1600/1596490798825109-0.png" width="400">
  </a>
</div>Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) distributed 5,000 hygiene parcels to Rohingya refugees who combat COVID-19 in refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Rohingya Muslims have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August 25, 2017, when the most recent act of violence took place. TİKA, which has carried out various assistance activities and built many facilities to meet the needs of these refugees such as food, healthcare, and shelter, distributed 5,000 parcels containing hygiene products to Rohingya Muslims to fight against the COVID-19 outbreak.</div><div><br></div><div>TİKA’s field assistants and volunteers from Rakhine participated in the distribution that took place in camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where 750,000 refugees live. The hygiene parcels contain hygiene products such as face masks, soap, antiseptic gel, laundry soap, laundry detergent, dish soap, toothpaste, and cleaning cloths.</div><div><br></div><div>From August 25 to September 15, 2017, TİKA delivered 150 tons of humanitarian assistance to authorities to be distributed to Rohingya Muslims by boats in the district of Maungdaw in Myanmar. It also directly distributed approximately 10 tons of humanitarian assistance to those in need by helicopters.</div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.tika.gov.tr/en/news/tika_supports_rohingya_muslims_in_the_fight_against_covid19-57325">Read More</a></u></b></div>

Turkey's TİKA Supports Rohingya in the Fight against COVID19

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) distributed 5,000 hygiene parcels to Rohingya refugees who combat COVID-19 in...

From Orphan to Airline Owner in Kenya

Admin 0 business, Kenya 07:19

<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZBqc8DzM4VrpOcbQZ6EpKHd3GTreVGgkfo48B-Fvm5qTiNPSW0obGWl93jPSrEC9oLIyT2X2L1FD8RrJ-DAEEOTMCZQxXkaGi8tbNgZUpXZMq7WRtE0lB0grZhxBTwjeqgHIaRPZqz_2/s1600/1596413947580215-0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
    <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZBqc8DzM4VrpOcbQZ6EpKHd3GTreVGgkfo48B-Fvm5qTiNPSW0obGWl93jPSrEC9oLIyT2X2L1FD8RrJ-DAEEOTMCZQxXkaGi8tbNgZUpXZMq7WRtE0lB0grZhxBTwjeqgHIaRPZqz_2/s1600/1596413947580215-0.png" width="400">
  </a>
</div><br></div><div> </div><div>By Samwel Kumba and Justus Ondari</div><div> </div><div>Seeing him seated in his spacious office along North Airport Road, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), one would be forgiven for assuming that Captain Musa Bulhan has had it easy in life. For Capt. Musa, the proprietor and chief executive of African Express Airways, is the first African to own an airline with landing rights in Europe.</div><div> </div><div>Besides, the 59 year-old was among the first Kenyans to acquire the highest pilot qualifications- an airline transport pilot license-in 1974. But behind the ‘firsts and accolades’, Capt. Musa’s life is one hit by tragedy at a tender age and littered by internecine ‘wars’ thrown at him by both nature and man. Robbed of parental love, first by the death of his mother when he was a toddler, and then his father at 15, the decorated career pilot was forced to start fending for himself literally before he was out of the diapers.</div><div> </div><div>Four years down the line, at an age when most of his playmates probably still believed that their fathers were the strongest people on earth, a gangling of a boy with intelligence beyond his age made a startling career choice- to become a pilot. Unbeknown to him, the knack to survive was to be implanted in the young Musa right from the very day he decided to be a pilot. Many of the industry players he approached dismissed him as a joker.</div><div> </div><div>“Many tried to frighten and discourage me from the profession but everything they threw at me made me even more enthusiastic. They would instruct me to wake up at 4.00 am and check the oil or tyres of an aircraft. They would give me tests on all sorts of jargon which I could not understand. Then they would call me names. If I were fainthearted and uninterested in the training, I would have dropped out. I survived the ordeal,” reminisces the captain. However, not all people were bad and many, including the government which gave him a scholarship, came to his rescue when the going got tough.</div><div> </div><div>“In fact, I did not have much of a problem because I got a lot of help.”</div><div>Musa was to undergo training in the United Kingdom and later in the United States after joining the defunct East African Airways. When it collapsed with the collapse of the then East African Community (EAC) in 1977, Kenya Airways (KQ) was formed. Obviously, there were too many pilots for the few airplanes the then nascent KQ had. “I felt it was high time for someone to give room. Unfortunately, I would not tell anyone else to get out. I told myself to give room with my meager Ksh 270,000 benefits,”</div><div> </div><div>Aviation business</div><div> </div><div>It was then that Capt. Musa decided to set up an airline. He floated the idea to the then ministry of Power and Communication but the ministry officials felt it could not work. Thinking they were getting rid of him, they gave him a temporary operating permit for him to set up the famous Pioneer Airlines at Wilson Airport in 1978.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="https://www.somaliaonline.com/community/topic/66893-somali-companies-and-bussiness-people-doing-it-big-in-africa/">Read more</a></b></div>

From Orphan to Airline Owner in Kenya

By Samwel Kumba and Justus Ondari Seeing him seated in his spacious office along North Airport Road, Jomo Kenyatta Internat...

Kenya Jambojet to Fulfill Requirements for Direct Flight to Somalia

Admin 0 business, english, Kenya, somalia 20:22

<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH1gBgkyIyWOFag6D0-PMli4fC9b6jRwTadpJCiqY3A-hZwruyoOlAobrMAOZDppe8-N0ABV1hrnXK2M877aToJyQi4AWi0IuEEB4GtfrGuzgV_MY2fhwVMrmHryjcxa3eIeTfCsybDgCM/s1600/1596201715906069-0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
    <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH1gBgkyIyWOFag6D0-PMli4fC9b6jRwTadpJCiqY3A-hZwruyoOlAobrMAOZDppe8-N0ABV1hrnXK2M877aToJyQi4AWi0IuEEB4GtfrGuzgV_MY2fhwVMrmHryjcxa3eIeTfCsybDgCM/s1600/1596201715906069-0.png" width="400">
  </a>
</div>Jambojet has put on hold plans to launch direct flights from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta<span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;"> International Airport (JKIA) to Somali capital Mogadishu due to high insurance needed to ply the route.</span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><br></span></div><div>The budget carrier, a subsidiary on national carrier Kenya Airways, was to launch its direct flight to Aden Adde International Airport, Mogadishu this year in a move that was expected to boost trade with Somalia.</div><div><br></div><div>The airline’s acting managing director Karanja Ndegwa, said Mogadishu flights have been put on ice until the airline meets Somalia Aviation Authority’s insurance requirements.</div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/companies/Insurance-hurdle-to-slow-Jambojet-direct-Somalia/4003102-5595788-je4wg5/index.html">Read more</a></u></b></div>

Kenya Jambojet to Fulfill Requirements for Direct Flight to Somalia

Jambojet has put on hold plans to launch direct flights from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Somali cap...

Iran Opens a Supermarket in Venezuela With High-Tech Covid Defenses

Admin 0 business, english, Iran, Venezuela 10:00

<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKq_dmzEvG3lbRw-PAr0W8t36el6t-b3rtpDwp__6JXQVi-sLPHajvM24B982k_s-EoPjjEu5sEolNfFjo9JATAKYr7OU4kREbzzOQ1V42buEi-HPyY0uL3pMkArmJi2yRrTj_cCB6SjNG/s1600/1596164401517802-0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
    <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKq_dmzEvG3lbRw-PAr0W8t36el6t-b3rtpDwp__6JXQVi-sLPHajvM24B982k_s-EoPjjEu5sEolNfFjo9JATAKYr7OU4kREbzzOQ1V42buEi-HPyY0uL3pMkArmJi2yRrTj_cCB6SjNG/s1600/1596164401517802-0.png" width="400">
  </a>
</div><br></div><div><br></div><div>But it is the first one owned by a company in Iran, one of the few countries helping Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro evade U.S. sanctions. And it comes equipped with a kind of high-tech Covid shield -- an airport-scanner-like booth that measures shoppers’ temperatures and sprays them with disinfectant mist.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-30/backing-maduro-iran-opens-covid-proof-supermarket-in-venezuela">Read more</a></u></b></div>

Iran Opens a Supermarket in Venezuela With High-Tech Covid Defenses

But it is the first one owned by a company in Iran, one of the few countries helping Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro evade U....

The Rise of Syrian Entrepreneurship

Admin 0 english 17:29

<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj308Ecu3yVvKewS4TtalPi7EyhO6BF-ronHP7phAuJcfUzZ7TKrYx4m93PEXPni46Z2cx0CILXU-lu__kLLOhqFM3MoHgHc-ZGDU7Bbv1gUrhCK99-_d9NE0vmO4OIHliSC8BsVkfP1G2K/s1600/1595845786011232-0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
    <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj308Ecu3yVvKewS4TtalPi7EyhO6BF-ronHP7phAuJcfUzZ7TKrYx4m93PEXPni46Z2cx0CILXU-lu__kLLOhqFM3MoHgHc-ZGDU7Bbv1gUrhCK99-_d9NE0vmO4OIHliSC8BsVkfP1G2K/s1600/1595845786011232-0.png" width="400">
  </a>
</div>Think of the Syrian economy and the first issues that come to mind are sanctions, hyperinflation, unemployment and poverty — but not entrepreneurship.</div><div><br></div><div>Surprisingly, however, although the war has taken a toll on business, entrepreneurs are thriving. And even more surprisingly, many of them are women.</div><div><br></div><div>A report this year suggests that 17.6 percent of entrepreneurs tried to work on new startup ideas in 2015, and the figure climbed to 31.2 percent in 2016. In addition, women now comprise 22.4 percent of entrepreneurs in Syria, compared with only 4.4 percent in 2009.</div><div><br></div><div>“This increase was triggered by the growing role that Syrian women have been playing in society as breadwinners and supporters of their families, while many of the men have been forced to either flee or join the armed conflict,” said Ahmad Sufyan Bayram, a Syrian researcher and social entrepreneur who compiled the report from interviews with 268 experts and Syrian entrepreneurs.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/1208666/middle-east">Read more</a></u></b></div>

The Rise of Syrian Entrepreneurship

Think of the Syrian economy and the first issues that come to mind are sanctions, hyperinflation, unemployment and poverty — but...

Nominations Open for Hamdan-ICESCO Prize for Distinguished Academic

Admin 0 english 16:22

<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikb11pQlwmq-uO2mQKO2-3ILzgzCn5AMkBI3td3ycfg9TxXFhIY44H-HEkC1zO2OMZP8JKdcP6sm4GFAw-8YLNPZfrAOe3ZClDVTk9VRN0qpJTprKPV3Dk8TmVlHA6GwMvSBXkvT_XBKxu/s1600/1595755324120566-0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
    <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikb11pQlwmq-uO2mQKO2-3ILzgzCn5AMkBI3td3ycfg9TxXFhIY44H-HEkC1zO2OMZP8JKdcP6sm4GFAw-8YLNPZfrAOe3ZClDVTk9VRN0qpJTprKPV3Dk8TmVlHA6GwMvSBXkvT_XBKxu/s1600/1595755324120566-0.png" width="400">
  </a>
</div>The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) and Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Distinguished Academic Performance announced the call for nomination for the 2nd Edition of Hamdan– ICESCO Prize for Voluntary Development of Education Facilities in the Islamic World Countries (2020-2021), dedicated to countering the COVID-19 pandemic.</div><div><br></div><div>On this occasion, Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, ICESCO Director-General, reaffirmed ICESCO’s support to the projects and programmes which contribute to countering the repercussions of this crisis and its significant impact on the educational system by gearing efforts towards the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and promotion of innovation to serve education.</div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div>https://www.icesco.org/en/2020/07/08/nominations-open-for-hamdan-icesco-prize-for-distinguished-academic/<br></div>