Category: Daily Security Briefing
#1 Ogaden Freedom Fighter Who Completely Altered Somalis Fate in Ethiopia
Nairobi (HAN) November 23rd, 2020. The IGAD 2020 Regional Security Watch Nomination – Independent group for the regional stability and Human Rights advocate. As Somali National Regional State celebrates Annual Freedom Fighters this year 2020, most see it both as a welcome year and as a time to reflect back on the day in 1954 when the…
Ethiopia: Farmajo Denied “Reports Somali Military Fighting Inside Tigray”
Addis Ababa (HAN) November 28, 2020. Regional Security and Tigray conflict updates. There are growing reports that the Somali military (SNA) is fighting alongside Eritrean forces inside Tigray region, according to Bashir Hashi Yusuf @BashirHashiysf. “The Somali army has crossed the Eritrean-Ethiopian border and it has been confirmed that hundreds of Somali troops have been…
Somalia: Acting Defense Secretary makes first ever visit
Djibouti (HAN) November 27.2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller made an unannounced visit to Somalia Friday, the first by an American defense secretary and the last stop in a four country swing on his first trip abroad since being installed as part of President Donald…
‘Why now?’ Dismay as US considers troop pullout from Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — No country has been involved in Somalia’s future as much as the United States. Now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred U.S. military troops from the Horn of Africa nation at what some experts call the worst possible time. Three decades of chaos, from warlords to al-Qaida…
Eritrea: TPLF militants fire new wave of rockets deep into Eritrea
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) Novemeber 27.2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. At least one rocket fired from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region targeted neighbouring Eritrea Friday night, four regional diplomats told AFP, the second such attack since Ethiopia’s internal conflict broke out earlier this month. “There was one rocket coming from Tigray…
Israel’s Mossad spy chief visits Ethiopia for security talks
Addis Ababa, November 27, 2020 – Ethiopia’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) and the Israeli National Intelligence Agency (Mossad) have agreed to cooperate in areas of peace and security and jointly fighting terrorism. Temesgen Tiruneh, Director General of NISS and Special Envoy of Yossi Cohen, head of Mossad in Ethiopia and East Africa, as…
Eritrea: The New Zealand Labour MP Ibrahim Omer is from Saho Tribe
According to Eleanor Ainge Roy in Queenstown, the New Zealand’s first Eritrean, African member of parliament (MP) sparks tears as he recounts escape from Eritrea, the eritrean military oppression, like north Korean style military prison. New Zealand’s first African MP has reduced politicians to tears telling the story of his journey of “hope” from a…
Eritrea: Tigray government is a house divided leadership
Asmara (HAN) November 27, 2020. Public Diplomacy and regional security update. The Federal National defense forces and the army are now control vast tracts of territory in Tigray regional state, where they repeatedly attack even the regional Tigray capital Makelle and intensified the pressure Tigray region to replace the local leadership with new centrally imposed…
Ethiopia: Final Phase Of Rule Of Law Operations In Tigray
Addis Ababa, November 26, 2020 – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced the commencement of the final phase of the rule of law operations in Tigray regional state following the end of the 72-hour period granted to the criminal TPLF clique to surrender peacefully. Taking advantage of the 72-hour period, thousands of Tigray Special Forces…
Somalia: PM tours UK funded training base
BAIDOA – The Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble visited UK managed military training base for Somali armed forces in Baidoa on Tuesday. The premier accompanied by the senior regional officials including President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Lafta Garen witnessed a live training exercise by the recruits in the base. Mr. Roble thanked the trainers for their…
