Category: Opinion

  • The Somalia Kenya Conundrum

    The Somalia Kenya Conundrum

    OTTAWA (HAN) May 15. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. OPINON BY: Dr. Suleiman Walhad. Kenya was a creation of the British Empire, when it became a colony in 1920, gaining independence in 1963, while Somalia is a creation of the Somali people when the two parts of ex-British Somaliland and…

  • Perspective On The Horn of Africa Past to Present: The challenges Ahead in 2021

    Perspective On The Horn of Africa Past to Present: The challenges Ahead in 2021

    OTTAWA (HAN) May 15. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. OPINION By: Dr. Suleiman Walhad. The Horn of Africa was and is a region of utmost importance throughout the ages from time immemorial. It is where man first crossed from Africa to other parts of the world and it has…

  • What Ethiopia needs is less, not more, ethno-nationalism

    What Ethiopia needs is less, not more, ethno-nationalism

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 11. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. On November 29 of last year, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the end of his administration’s military offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the country’s northern Tigray region. This announcement has since proved premature. Tigray’s…

  • Ethiopia: The many faces of PM Abiy Ahmed: Opinion

    Ethiopia: The many faces of PM Abiy Ahmed: Opinion

    In the summer of 2018, only a few months after Abiy Ahmed had been swept into power, I began to have a gut feeling that something was not quite right with a leader widely considered as Africa’s brightest hope for the future. At the time, you had to be mad to doubt Abiy Ahmed. In…

  • Ethiopia: Why Egypt’s and Sudan’s “Fears” Over GERD Are Exaggerated!

    Ethiopia: Why Egypt’s and Sudan’s “Fears” Over GERD Are Exaggerated!

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. OPINION By Eyob Belachew. Ethiopia is working to correct a century of injustice in the Nile politics, which has overwhelmingly favored Egypt’s development over Ethiopia’s, by constructing Africa’s colossal dam since April 2011. Plans to fill the mega dam…

  • Eritrea: The Horn of Africa – Challenges & Opportunities

    Eritrea: The Horn of Africa – Challenges & Opportunities

    ASMARA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. OPINION BY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Eritrea. As it will be recalled, the end of the Cold War thirty years ago had engendered much hope and optimism in the Horn of Africa. The opportunities that loomed in the horizon were…

  • Violence in Ethiopia, Instability, and the Need for Law and Order

    Violence in Ethiopia, Instability, and the Need for Law and Order

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. OPINION by Graham Peebles. An unresolved war in the north of the country; ethnic based violence some are describing as genocide in the West; random explosions of aggression in various regions: Ethiopia is trembling. With around 117 million people,…

  • Ethiopia: An Angry Prime Minister Who Makes a Fetish of an Election: OPINION

    Ethiopia: An Angry Prime Minister Who Makes a Fetish of an Election: OPINION

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. OPINION By Alex Bekele. Nothing is more irritating and disappointing to most Ethiopians than to listen to the recent angry diatribe of Prime Minister Abiy in response to the all too human pleading of the Amhara people for protection from sudden…

  • Somalia: What to Expect From a “Head of State” Who is Arrogant & Naive

    Somalia: What to Expect From a “Head of State” Who is Arrogant & Naive

    MOGADISHU (HAN) April 28. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Opinion By: Former Minister of Commerce H.E Khadra Dualeh. I had a couple of meetings with President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaago when I was the Minister of Commerce and Industry. He is never rude –  you may even call him “gracious”-…

  • Somalia: Another set back For Farmaajo’s shuttle diplomacy for term extension

    Somalia: Another set back For Farmaajo’s shuttle diplomacy for term extension

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 22. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. By. Professor Hussein. H. Hussein. Africa Union led by International community and UNSC briefings have rejected his two years extension in Somalia. They have also stated only Sept.17th agreement with stakeholders are  practically the only path to resolve this…

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