Category: Opinion
This is how terrible Europe’s migration crisis has become
Djibouti (HAN) May 9,2015 Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian News By: Hanna Kozlowska. The passenger was female, her suitcase was fuchsia, and the eight-year-old Ivory Coast boy who Spanish authorities found curled up inside is now the latest symbol of Europe’s rapidly worsening migration crisis. The boy was discovered this week in an x-ray scan at a border…
Who Owns The Nile?
Djibouti (HAN) May 5,2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. By:Ludger Schadomsky Who owns the Nile? After years of conflict about control over the Nile, Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have now apparently chosen the path of co-operation over open dispute. Politicians are demonstrating unity, but observers warn that not all differences have been resolved. Many…
Somalia: The New Somali Studies
Djibouti (HAN) May 3, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News.By SAFIA AIDID What would a decolonized Somali Studies look like? I Since #CadaanStudies was launched on Twitter, the tweet that has received the most circulation has been something that British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton wrote in his 1856 travelogue First Footsteps in East Africa:…
Africa: 6 Myths About Travelling Africa
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 29, 2015 –Geeska Life Style. By:Valerie Bowden After the spate of xenophobic attacks, the warnings to South Africans in ‘foreign’ African countries and the general anxiety expressed about travel in Africa I thought this newsletter written by Valerie Bowden who traveled from Cape Town to Cairo, on her own, using only public…
Mediterranean migrants: No one makes this journey just to pick up benefits
Djibouti (HAN) April 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. By: Gary Younge While travelling up the US-Mexican border several years ago, I met an anti-immigration campaigner in Columbus, New Mexico who went by the name of Quasimodo and who had carried a .38 pistol around with him ever since he went into an abandoned…
Somali Shopkeeper "why Mandela spent 27 years in prison for?"
Mogadishu (HAN) April 17, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. Xenophobic Attack in South Africa against black African Migrants. A group of migrants, including a child, are rounded up and burned alive. Malawi says it will repatriate its nationals from South Africa. burnt alive and it is the silence from the South African government…
Eritrea Has a History of Anti-Terrorism
Asmara (HAN) April 17, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report says the allegation that Eritrea has funded or armed Al-Shabaab is ridiculous; the Eritrean government is probably the most scrupulously secular state on the Sub-Sahan African continent. According to the director of the President’s Office and presidential…
Djibouti: The Houthis Doctrine Must Be Stopped
Djibouti (HAN) April 14, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Maritime security News. A Djibouti Diplomat told Geeska Afrika Online that, the Hezbollah style sister in Yemen, “Houthis” has already created a complete system of Shia’a in the region and assaulting the stability of the Horn of Africa and must be stop in all…
Somalia: Amazing poetry by a young 17 year old girl in Puntland
Bossaso (HAN) April 13, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional security News. This poem is to motivate the Somali community to unite for the sake of our future. Recorded and edited by Yasminah. Yasminah said “My niece once told me, she knows of a girl who is a poet, like me. I begged her to…
Can Djibouti handle the proxy war in Yemen?
Djibouti (HAN) April 8, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional Humanitarian security News. American staff killed in Yemen as US government and navy in Djibouti advises others to leave. Yemen says Saudi airstrikes hit school, injuring students in Sana’a. The Hizbullah style Houthi Shia rise in Yemen and raises security alarm in Horn of Africa. The strain…
