Category: Somalia
Djibouti: Africom Units credited for Somalia Security
Djibouti (HAN) December 19, 2014 – Public safety and Regional Security news. More than 200 units ranging in size from detachments to groups and brigades have been officially credited for participation in Operations Restore Hope and United Shield, the 2½-year relief and evacuation campaign in Somalia. Soldiers who were assigned to these units and who participated…
Somalia: President Nominated Puntland political Heavyweight as Prime Minister
Mogadishu (HAN) December 17, 2014 – Public Dipolomacy and Regional Security news. The Geeska Afrika Online reporter , reported last week and saw the selection of former Prime Minister of Somalia Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke. Officially today, Somali president selected and nominated the Somalia’s ambassador to the United States, HE Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, on Wednesday…
Somalia: Omar Abdirashid Appointed by the President of the Republic
Mogadishu (HAN) December 15, 2014 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security news. Source who is close to Geeska Afrika online news desk told the New Prime Minister is Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke who arrived in Mogadishu earlier to replacement for the outgoing Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikkh Ahmed. Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke was Prime Minister…
Somalia: Tribalism and Extremism Hinder Security
Istanbul (HAN) December 13, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by Yusuf Selman İnanç. Turkey’s continued involvement could lead Somalia to prosperity and act as a catalyst for expanding Turkey’s soft power in the Horn of Africa. According to Geeska Afrika Online archives about the closer inspection of Turkey’s broad…
Somalia: UN Security Council Alerted swiftly to Appoint new Prime Minister
New York (HAN) December 11, 2014 – Public diplomacy and Regional Security and safety news. UN Security Council alerted the president of Somalia to swiftly appoint new Prime Minister. The members of UN Security Council reiterated their support for fast implementation of “Vision 2016.” “In that context they underlined the importance of the president swiftly…
Somalia: The CIA's Secret Sites in Mogadishu
Washington (HAN) December 10, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by. Jeremy Scahill . Renditions, an underground prison and a new CIA base are elements of an intensifying US war, according to a Nation investigation in Mogadishu, (This article appeared in the August 1-8, edition of The Nation). Obama discussed…
Somalia: Somali-Canadian Women's Activist Received German Human Rights Award 2014
Berlin (HAN) December 9, 2014 – Public safety and Regional Humanitarian Award news. Somali-Canadian Women’s Rights Activist Receives Germany’s FES Human Rights Award 2014, according to Deutsche Welle in Germany. According to Geeska Afrika Online reporter in Mogadishu, Fartuun Adan has spent decades campaigning for the rights of traumatized women in war-torn Somalia. Germany’s Friedrich Ebert Foundation…
Somali: Aden’s church alleged killing of Abdisamad treating as hate crime
Kansas City (HAN) December 8, 2014 – Public safety and Regional Security news. Ahmed Haji Aden, a 34-year-old Kansas City, is a Somali Christian, also is the target of a federal civil rights investigation, under the the federal response to hate crime. According to IAN LOVETT article of hate crimes in Kansas city dated, April…
Somali: New UN Position to empower political process in Somalia
New York (HAN) December 7, 2014 – Public diplomacy and Regional Security and safety news. Ambassador Raisedon Zenenga, Zimbabwean appointed UN deputy envoy to Somalia, to empower political process and re-contruction for Somalia. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment Zimbabwe’s Raisedon Zenenga as his deputy special representative of the UN assistance mission in…
Somalia: It was instinct mixed with desperation
Mogadishu (HAN) December 6, 2014 – Public diplomacy and Regional Security and safety news. The Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed lost Saturday’s vote of confidence. Ahmed had held his post for just under a year after the parliament voted out his predecessor, Abdi Farah Shirdon, who, likewise, had argued about the composition of the…
