Tag: war
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: 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…
Somalia: Following the money “ARM TRADE”
MOGADISHU (HAN) September 20. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. The ubiquity of small arms and light weapons (SALW) in Yemen, as well as centuries-old cultural and commercial ties with Somalia, has made Yemen the primary source for illicit arms among Somali importers. Consignments of small arms and ammunition from Yemen…
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…
Mozambique Might Require Foreign Military Assistance To Clean Up Its Hybrid War Mess
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 17. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues.BY: Andrew Korybko. Chronically impoverished and formerly civil war-torn Mozambique has the potential to become the world’s fourth-largest natural gas exporter due to its vast offshore reserves in the extreme northeastern part of the country, but this Southern African state’s…
Ethiopia: 120 Killed in Ethiopian Ethnic Clashes
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 17. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Intercommunal fighting in Ethiopia left at least 120 people dead this month and forced hundreds more to flee their homes, according to the opposition National Movement of Amhara. The killings in Ethiopia’s western region of Benishangul-Gumuz started on Sept.…
Abiy Ahmed on the threats to Ethiopia’s democratic transition
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 17. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY:BY ABIY AHMED. A STABLE DEMOCRACY is built on the rule of law; if there is no law there is no freedom. With this core belief, Ethiopia is working tirelessly to realise its constitution’s promise of a democratic and…
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…
Somalia: NISA Troops are protesting and blocking main roads
MOGADISHU (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Some of the roads leading to the Somali presidential palace in Mogadishu have been taken over by Somali National Security and Intelligence Forces for hours today. The troops, armed with small arms and 90 vehicles, complained of lack pay for…
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…
