Category: Opinion
Eritrea: Diplomacy through Danish Immigration Service's "flimsy and harmful report"
Denmark (HAN) December 6, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by Habtom Yohannes is a Dutch journalist of Eritrean origin, the Local news Denmark. The Danish Immigration Service’s “flimsy and harmful report” on Eritrea is playing right into the regime’s hands. “This is the answer we want – we…
Eritrea: The Eritrean Opposition “The North Korea of Africa”
Washington (HAN) December 5, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by. Makhate Berhane. We’ve all seen this ridiculous statement littered in articles on Eritrean opposition websites and it’s even been used to describe the current situation in Eritrea by major international news organizations such as the BBC, Reuters, and The New…
SOMALIA: Squeezing Blood Out of a Turnip
Mogadishu (HAN) December 4, 2014. November 30, 2014. Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by Sheiknor Abucar Qassim. Somalia is a mess with little or no hope for a positive change in the near future. As a close observer of the Somali politics, it is apparent that the difficulties in the…
Ethiopia: Harnessing Water to Power Africa – Bigger Solutions for Bigger Problems
Addis Ababa (HAN) December 3, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by. Zerihun Abebe Yigzaw. Looking at the earth during a night flight across the continent Africa tells all the grim story of a darker and invisible continent; face it, it is not as illuminated as many continents are…
Kenya: Is Kenya Facing A Security Meltdown?
Nairobi (HAN) December 3, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by. Jeremy Lind. Turkana, Kenya’s poorest county, is once again experiencing a spate of violence. The situation in Turkana, and Kenya more widely has become so bad, that John Githongo, a highly esteemed whistle-blower of regime malfeasance, has called it…
Ethiopia: Scandal at the Ethiopian Embassies
Rome (HAN) November 30, 2014. Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by. Binyam Kedir Abdu, Re-Published request from readers and Public diplomacy and Regional Security and safety news. Binyam Kedir Abdu, former first secretary at the Ethiopian Embassy in Kuwait Political scandals of all sorts pervade Ethiopian embassies around the world. What…
Eritrea: Memorial To The Victims of Mengistu Hailemariam
Asmara (HAN) November 30, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page By Tecola W. Hagos . In 1977–1978), was a violent political campaign in Ethiopia and Eritrea that most visibly took place after Communist Mengistu Haile Mariam achieved control of the Derg, the military junta, on 3 February 1977. The Derg unleashed…
Somalia: Study on targeted killings
Mogadishu (HAN) November 27, 2014 – Crime diplomacy and Regional Security and safety news. In recent months, a few States have adopted policies that permit the use of targeted killings, including in the territories of other States. Such policies are often justified as a necessary and legitimate response to “terrorism” and “asymmetric warfare”, but have had…
Djibouti: Customary laws under Trees never Accepted Foreign Mediation
Djibouti (HAN) November 26, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page, by Abdi Gutale. The solution to the current stalemate is dismissing the parliament and calling for selections of new parliament by a representative constituency. The parliament’s first law should be to choose between parliamentary or presidential and select PM…
Somalia: American Pilot Project to combat the root causes of extremism
Minneapolis (HAN) November 25, 2014 – Public diplomacy and Regional Security and safety News. By Paul Mcenroe (Star Tribune) and Geeska Africa Online security Editor. The American Muslim leaders have been advocating a concerted public effort, others worry about a backlash to a high-profile approach. The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that the it is…
