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TheCondorMan.....What is your agenda ?....Small window of opportunity now left to get in before news.....Stop your ridiculous attempts to scare people into selling....get in now before the news....You know it makes sense!....You know you want to!
All great to see. Counting down go the sign off. Ethiopian government need as many dollars as they can to service debts so they are working as hard as Harry to get TK on the road to generating billions of dollars of gold exports. Cant be much longer but 18th webinar should be a big one if this all falls into place. Happy to wait a week or so. gla
In Ethiopia, uncertainty is the word for 2024. The country continues to grapple with crises in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia and Somali region. It is also on the brink of another war with Eritrea over the Pretoria agreement and the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s brutal approach to Ethiopia’s need to secure access to the sea. The recent MoU with Somaliland has already created a crisis with Somalia.
Ethiopia is also facing an unprecedent economic crisis and religious tensions.
Regional tensions are also likely to continue between Ethiopia and Eritrea, with the risk of an open conflict following the declarations of PM Abiy that there were “historical and legal mistakes” that deprived Ethiopia of access to the sea. There are also reports that Eritrea has been training the Amhara militias known as the Fano.
theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/2024-comes-with-dangers-opportunities-in-greater-east-africa-4485232
Tut tut misleading headline and old news the bank which is not one of Kefis African banks (AFC and TDB) is withdrawing from Ethiopia its international staff not withdrawing totally from Ethiopia.
Clear you put the headline up to make people think one of the African banks involved with kefi was pulling out from kefi deal while the real situation is the bank had nothing to do with kefi and was only withdrawing its international staff.
Congratulations you have reached a new low TCM.
The Condor Clown who has stated before that he doesn't go on telegram and yet the same old article was posted there just minutes before he posted it here?
Karma will deal with you and all those who post with their hidden agendas!
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Because they were in a dark hole, not at some police station in Addis Ababa, there was an alarm once they couldn’t be traced. The beleaguered AfDB fellows called their chief, Akinwumi Adesina. He is a man who has direct lines to presidents, so he called Abiy (in photo Adesina and Abiy in Addis), and the two were released.
They were taken to a UN clinic for treatment and days later evacuated out of Addis Ababa. This latter story of their abduction, being blindfolded, and thrown into a dungeon is likely the truth, because it rises to the level of the traumatic experience that would lead the victims to want out of Addis on the next plane, and to scare the AfDB enough into withdrawing its international staff.
These pan-African institutions like AfDB, the African Union, and others, have a high pain threshold working on the continent. It is called the “This is Africa thick skin”. You have to work very hard to send them into flight.
The incident also gave an unexpected glimpse into PM Abiy’s fragility. That something like that could happen, and he could only intervene after the fact, suggests that he might not be the undisputed king of the Ethiopian hill.
-Charles Onyango-Obbo X@cobbo3
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One of the most revealing accounts of the incident was by .
@neby_G
. - “The arrest and attack was done by the security guards of the
@MoF_Ethiopia
after the 5.2 million dollars of Ethiopia’s yearly contribution to the bank was never deposited to the bank instead ended up in a bank account in Panama. When the Ethiopian director of .
@AfDB_Group
made it clear that the bank still hadn’t received the funds, he was arrested and physically attacked. When he decided to take all his foreign staff and leave the country out of safety concerns,
.
@AbiyAhmedAli
and the finance minister Ahmed Shide showed up at his house to convince to stay only for him to recognise the Finance minister’s security guards as the perpetrators of his arrest and attack. He refused to stay and has left the country. An “investigation” has been opened by the
@MoF_Ethiopia
to find the whereabouts of the 5.2 million dollars”, he wrote.
New information now suggests that Kamara and Bukenya committed the sin of being diligent and persistent. The two had been sending regular reminders to the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance to pay capital share contributions that Ethiopia had pledged in 2019.
However, the Ministry of Finance had been making the payments, except not to AfDB. It was making disbursements to an account listed in an email purported to be from the AfDB. It had wired $6 million (not $5.2 million) to that account. It turns out, according to these claims, that the account was somewhere in Mexico (not Panama). In any event, whether in Mexico or Panama, the money ended up in central/south America.
The beating of Kamara and Bukenya, therefore, wasn’t a result of an argument in the lift. It was premeditated. As the good folks of East Africa say, they had stepped on some big people’s plates, and needed to be discouraged from pursuing the matter further. It was, ultimately, a fool’s endeavour for the crooked Ethiopian officials, because the money wasn’t owed to Kamara and Bukenya’s private estates. Many fellows in Abidjan would see that it hadn’t landed on their account.
The latest accounts also allege that the incident didn’t happen at the Ministry of Finance. Kamara was reportedly waylaid at his gate in the dusk of Addis Ababa as he arrived home after work.
He was roughed up there, blindfolded, and thrown into a car full of armed men. They drove away with him, and after about 30 minutes, dumped him in a dungeon. Shortly after, Bukenya, who had been subjected to the same treatment, was also brought to the dungeon. Bukenya would likely have recognised it quickly as what Ugandan official torturers euphemistically and contradictorily call a “safe house” back home.
Bukenya was allegedly later taken to his home, where his captors carried out a thorough search, and confiscated laptops and phones. All the receipts, as it were.
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AfDB ‘Crisis’ Reveals Danger of Chasing Crooks in Ethiopia – and Abiy’s Achilles Heel
(A news version was published as “$6m Fraud Enquiry at Centre of AfDB Staff Assault in Addis Ababa” in THE EAST AFRCAN yesterday: theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/-6m-fraud-enquiry-at-centre-of-afdb-staff-assault-in-addis-ababa-4472938)
Pan-African premier lender African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday announced it was pulling out all international staff from Ethiopia, following a "serious diplomatic incident" in which its staff were attacked by security officers.
The Abidjan-headquartered lender said that existing Ethiopian staff will continue working under its employment contracts and their Ethiopian office manned by an officer-in-charge. International staff will work remotely in the meantime.
The AfDB's decision followed what it called a "breach of diplomatic protocol and assault" by Ethiopian security officers on two of its international members of staff, who have diplomatic immunity, in Addis Ababa on October 31, 2023. In addition to the assault, they were arrested, and detained for hours without charge or any official explanation, the bank said. The assault was carried out by security officers at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Finance, during a visit there by the AFDB’s Deputy Director General of the East Africa region also Country Manager Dr Abdul Kamara (in photo, before and after the assault), and another bank staffer.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had to personally intervene to have the two freed. Various reports say the attacks were engineered by a senior government official at the Ministry of Finance, who was annoyed with the nagging of the AfDB staff over accountability for some disbursed funds.
Many aspects of the incident remain shrouded in mystery. With snooping around, more details are beginning to emerge. The second AfDB official who was beaten up, is John Bosco Bukenya, who was Principal Country Programme Officer.
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Step up from the usual kefi presentation and good to see the emphasis on the local community.
Thanks Bear.
From telegram group MattD.. " Satellite image of the TKGM site taken on the 4th January 2024..
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=16&lat=9.07854&lng=35.55818&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Fbd86bcc0-f318-402b-a145-015f85b9427e&datasetId=S2L2A&fromTime=2024-01-04T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2024-01-04T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=1_TRUE_COLOR&demSource3D=%22MAPZEN%22#x3d=3958348&y3d=1014585.5&z3d=3458.3&h3d=0&v3d=10
Manu as a non shareholder you surely have more important things to do rather than post your rubbish here……..
That is the best presentation I have ever seen from a mining company!!! (or exploration and dev company at the moment lol).
Excellent!
Anyone invested in Kefi (not you manu rocketman) should take a look - it's very impressive and might resolve any fears you have about resttlement
Yes. I can feel the vibe as well lol.
For the better. We all need this.
Bunion I’m off to golf ⛳️ soon maybe you need some recreational time off 😎
He keeps just saying
“ This message has been filtered, please adjust your filters to view”
🤷🏻♂️
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bunion go and put a plaster on it. 😂
Any money come in yet ?
Manu it’s time your ten years plus of totally unhelpful comments came to an end…..with no shares to your name maybe you should go back to bed !
Exactly can the team get a late late late goal. Mind you now they add on minutes for everything in a match those Fergie time games are shorter than normal games today.
Rob
Good post , we are on Fergie time !
Https://www.tradearabia.com/news/IND_417537.html
FMF will see the participation of more than 26,000 people (13,000 in-person and 13,000 virtual), from across 145 countries. This includes the participation of more than 21 international development organisations, 300 CEOs from leading organisations (minerals and metal value chain), over 250 international and regional speakers, and 100 sponsors and exhibitors, 60 government minister and country delegations. – TradeArabia News Service
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2438061/business-economy Saudi mining
RIYADH: The Saudi capital is set to host ministers from over 45 countries on Jan. 9 for a roundtable meeting at the Future Minerals Forum 2024 to discuss the future of the global mining sector.
The world’s premier gathering on minerals seeks to address the challenges in the mining and metals sector, especially the heightened demand for energy transition minerals.
https://www.futuremineralsforum.com/
https://www.zawya.com/en/markets/equities/saudi-amak-to-pay-1529mln-dividends-for-h2-23-bjt9zt2k (Saudi mining)
https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/what-is-fergie-time-manchester-uniteds-history-of-late-goals/iqs4qho529891hykg171hhtbc (off topic)
Let us see.