Category: USAFRICOM

  • Somalia: Security Experts Blindsided by Trump Assertion of US troops Pullout

    Somalia: Security Experts Blindsided by Trump Assertion of US troops Pullout

    Mogadishu (HAN) October 27, 2020. Regional Security and Stability Initiatives. Senior National and Regional Security officials blindsided by President Donald Trump’s assertion and announcement of US troop withdrawal from Somalia. The Trump administration has fallen prey to the pitfalls of ending Al-Shabaab killings in Somalia and kenya. Last week, Somali National Army (SNA) spokesman Major…

  • Kenya: Mombasa Bomber Attacks was an intelligence failures

    Kenya: Mombasa Bomber Attacks was an intelligence failures

    NAIROBI (HAN) January 31, 2019. Opinion Report by Reuters in Mombasa. “Kenya bomber’s journey offers cautionary tale of intel. failures” – The bomber who blew himself up outside a Nairobi hotel last week, launching an attack that killed 21 people, was already so well-known to Kenyan police that they had emblazoned his face across billboards…

  • World: Violent Extremism in the U.S.

    World: Violent Extremism in the U.S.

    White supremacist and other right-wing violence are currently the deadliest active domestic extremist movements in the U.S., according to data from several civil rights groups that track hate crimes and extremist violence. » Subscribe to NowThis World: http://go.nowth.is/World_Subscribe » Watch the Previous Episode: https://go.nowth.is/2yLM3Of Over the last decade, right-wing extremists committed more than 70% of…

  • Djibouti: Foreign Military Bases in Somalia

    Djibouti: Foreign Military Bases in Somalia

    Djibouti (HAN) November 3rd, 2017 Public Diplomacy & Regional Security Services. In the nineteenth century, it was a fort used by Italian And British forces (Mogadishu and Barbara). In the twentieth century, Soviet troops moved into the crumbling facilities in both Barbara and Kismayo. In December 2009, at this site in Bali-Doogle Airbase district of Southern…

  • Somalia: The surrender of Al-Shabaab Founder Means to Terror and Terrorism in Africa?

    Somalia: The surrender of Al-Shabaab Founder Means to Terror and Terrorism in Africa?

    Mogadishu (HAN) August 15th, 2017 – Public Diplomacy & Reginal Security. Opinion by Abdullahi Ali Ahmed. On Wednesday last week, we woke up while the headlines covered by a combat between Robow (formal Shabab Deputy leader) and his formal team in Abal, Bakool region-Somalia. The fight came after his formal group carried an offense against him…

  • Djibouti: Djibouti Port for trade and military access

    Djibouti: Djibouti Port for trade and military access

    Djibouti (HAN) May 15th, 2017 – Public Diplomacy & Regional investment. By. MARTIN SEEMUNGA for pbs. Djibouti, a tiny country in Northeast Africa, the former French Somali-Coast, is situated at the gateway to the Suez Canal -North of Somalia, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes. While its location is an economic commodity for a country…

  • Djibouti Naval Facility is a Much Needed ‘Chinese Military Base’

    Djibouti Naval Facility is a Much Needed ‘Chinese Military Base’

    Djibouti (HAN) May 15th, 2017 – Public Diplomacy & Regional Security for Maritime safety and Trade Investment. By. Kristin Huang for Chinese defence. Chinese military base in Djibouti necessary to protect key trade routes linking Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Jin Yinan, a former director of the strategic research institute at the PLA’s…

  • Djibouti: Why U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Did Not Visit Ethiopia

    Djibouti: Why U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Did Not Visit Ethiopia

    Djibouti (HAN) May 7th, 2017 – Public Diplomacy & Regional Security and defense Cooperation. Opinion article wrote by. Proffesor Alemayehu Mariam, “US doesn’t need Ethiopia in its war on terror in the Horn of Africa.” Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited the Middle East and Africa to “reaffirm key U.S. military alliances”…

  • Djibouti: U.S. special forces killed in Southern Somalia

    Djibouti: U.S. special forces killed in Southern Somalia

    Djibouti (HAN) May 6th, 2017 – Public Diplomacy & Regional Security. The U.S. special forces member has been killed in a Bubarak area, close to Afgoye districs during a a special commando style operation against Al-Shabab terrorist. According to Djibouti sources, a statement from the U.S. Africa Command said the service member was killed Thursday…

  • Ethiopia laughs, “When Eritrean President Isaias Pontificates”

    Ethiopia laughs, “When Eritrean President Isaias Pontificates”

    Asmara (HAN) 27 April, 2017 – Public Diplomacy & Regional Security for Stability. Ethiopia laughs, “When Eritrean President Isaias Pontificates” .. Opinion By Dilwenberu Nega. President Isaias Afewerk’s interview with OMN – one of the two satellite TV channels he funds to goad Oromos in Ethiopia to indulge in an insurrection against Ethiopia – was at best…

css.php