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Hana Fasil

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Name: Hana Fasil

Education: BA Management

Company name: Optical electronics

Title: Owner

Founded in: 2020

What it does: Sell different kinds of electronics

HQ: Addis Ababa

Number of employees: 1

Startup Capital: 50,000 birr

Current Capital: growing

Reasons for starting the business: To become financially sustainable

Biggest perk of ownership: Commitment

Biggest strength: Good communication

Biggest challenging: To start an export standard trading

Plan: Sales

First career: Sales

Most interested in meeting: Maria angelo

Most admired person: My mother

Stress reducer: Time with friends

Favorite past time: Painting

Favorite book: Bible

Favorite destination: Madagascar

Favorite automobile: Toyota CHR

Exponential growth possible for Africa’s automotive industry

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The development of regional value chains could see new vehicle sales increase from 1 million to 5 million units a year across Africa, according to Afreximbank.
Speaking at a recent online seminar to promote the African continent’s premier trade event, the Intra-African Trade Fair, to be held in Kigali, Rwanda, from 6 – 12 September 2021, senior trade facilitator Gainmore Zanamwe, said there were bright prospects for the sector.
The Automotive Tradeshow and African Association of Automotive Manufacturers (AAAM) Automotive Forum at IATF under the theme “Building Bridges for a successful AfCFTA”, would be a critical base from which to drive growth through the development of intra-African partnerships, Zanamwe said.
The value of collaboration around automotive manufacturing in Africa was highlighted as the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the African Union, concluded a string of virtual events raising awareness of IATF2021 and its intent.

Eight migrants drown, more injured off the horn of Africa

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Staff from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) assisted Djiboutian authorities as they attended to the grim task of recovering and burying eight drowning victims whose remains washed ashore after a lethal journey from Yemen over the weekend.
The victims—from a total of 34 mainly Ethiopian and Somali migrants seeking to return to Africa after attempting to find work in the Arabian Gulf—make even more tragic a recent wave of Africans arriving in Djibouti.
“It was at night and the smugglers turned off all the lights on the boat, claiming we were being followed the Coast Guard. But they were lying,” 19-year-old survivor Galgalou Haji Wacho from Oromo, Ethiopia, told IOM. “There was no Coast Guard. They started hitting us with sticks and iron bars.”
Haji Wacho said he was in the water for nearly two hours, struggling to make out the coastline ahead. “I could not see anything,” he recalled. “It was pitch black. I did not know whether I was dead or alive.”

Africa Data Leadership Initiative

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The Economic Commission for Africa raised the flag on data governance by jointly launching the Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) with Future State and Smart Africa, creating safe space for policymakers, digital rights experts and entrepreneurs to learn together.
The ADLI is a peer network designed for and by African policymakers, consumer rights advocates, and private sector stakeholders to ensure the data economy drives equitable growth and social progress across the continent.
The tripartite partnership is creating a peer learning and exchange network in pursuit of three interrelated and interdependent goals; creating a dynamic “safe space”; building a strong base of expertise; and contributing to broader initiatives.
Leveraging Smart Africa’s and ECA’s existing platforms, the organisations will promote the peer network among their constituents and solicit input to the data governance issues interrogated through the peer network.