Tag: africa
Ethiopia: A moral dilemma for Ethiopia’s Professor Andreas Eshete
Professor Andreas Eshehe has been a controversial public intellectual in contemporary Ethiopia. Some admire him so highly while others consider him a morally corrupt person who should not be recognized as an intellectual. Those who condemn Andreas as a corrupt intellectual who does not deserve to be recognized as an intellectual offer a standard for…
Eritrea: Somali Leader arrived in Asmara, discuss progress of bilateral ties
ASMARA (HAN) October 4. 2020. Public Diplomacy, Monitoring Regional Issues. The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohammed A. Mohammed, arrived in Asmara in mid-morning hours today for 2-day working visit. President Mohammed & his delegation were accorded warm welcome by President Isaias Afwerki on arrival at Asmara International Airport. The two Heads…
Ethiopia Huge Supporter of the UN
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 22. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed said Ethiopia will remain committed to the ideals of the United Nations (UN). He made the remark at the High-level meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UN held under the theme, ‘The…
Ethiopia: Political Violence Could Derail Democratic Transition
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 20. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY TOM GARDNER, LULE ESTIFANOS According to his wife, the late Gen. Seare Mekonnen, Ethiopia’s former army chief of staff, was assassinated by a bodyguard shortly after 9 p.m. on June 22, 2019. The general was rushed to a hospital, where…
Ethiopia files terrorism charges against leading opposition Leader
Ethiopia has filed terrorism charges against a prominent media mogul and opposition politician from the Oromo ethnic group, Jawar Mohammed, the attorney general’s office said on Saturday. Jawar, founder of the Oromiya Media Network and a member of the Oromo Federalist Congress party, was arrested in June amid the widespread unrest that followed the assassination…
Ethiopia: Genuine Dialogue Creates Ground to Reconcile Polarized Views
Ethiopia- ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 19. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Ethiopia needs an all-inclusive national dialogue to navigate through fundamental issues as a ‘tragedy of the commons’ complicate the reform process, Scholars argued adding, for the proper deployment of successful dialogue, lessons should be taken from the experiences…
Eritrea: Reflections on the International Day of Peace 2020
Eritrea-ASMARA (HAN) September 19. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. In several days the world will observe the International Day of Peace (IDP). The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) set 21 September as the IDP in 1981 a unanimous resolution. Two decades later, in 2001, the UNGA would unanimously vote…
Ethiopia’s democratic transition is in peril
Freedom is not a gift doled out to people by a government,” Abiy Ahmed said in his inaugural address as Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018. “Rather [it is] a gift of nature to everyone that emanates from our human dignity.” His words marked a remarkable turn for a country that over tethhe past five decades had…
Eritrea: The ‘Israeli’-Emirati Alliance Will Be Felt In Africa
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 17. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. By Andrew Korybko American political analyst. The misleadingly described “peace” deal between “Israel” and the UAE will enable the self-professed “Jewish State” to use the latter’s military and civilian port infrastructure in the Gulf of Aden, thus challenging recent…
Djibouti: Why foreign countries are scrambling to set up bases in Africa
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY:Theo Neethling. Recent media reports claim that a covert Kenyan paramilitary team is responsible for the unconstitutional killing of terror suspects in nighttime raids. The reports are based on interviews with US and Kenyan diplomatic and intelligence officials. The…
