Category: Daily Security Briefing
The 10th Panel Discussion For Somalia Election 2021: Challenges and Predictions
Mogadishu (HAN), November 25th, 2020. The AGAD2020 Regional Security Watch & Geeska Afrika Online are happy to announce its 10th webinar, a panel discussion on Good Governance and Political Processes in the Horn of Africa. Foreign election influence operations that capitalize on moments of regional uncertainty aren’t new in Somali tactical disinformation and corruption led…
Ethiopia: Congratulations to Thomas-Greenfield the New U.N. Ambassador
Linda Thomas-Greenfield For U.N. Ambassador Geeska Afrika Online Message on behalf of the Horn of African People: Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and the regional peacekeeping forces, we all wishing you lots of success and happiness for your new appointment. Welcome back to the region again. Your appointment signals the return of the United States diplomatic…
Somalia: Tropical Cyclone Gati made landfall left Death and Destruction
Bosaso (HAN) November 24, 2020. The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Trucker updates. Gati is the first hurricane-strength system to hit Somalia in recorded history. The strongest tropical cyclone ever measured in the northern Indian Ocean (Somalia and yemen) has made landfall in Northern Somalia regions, where it is poised to drop two years’ worth of rain in the…
Somalia: No shortcuts to negotiating with Al-Shabaab
Since the United States and the Taliban inked a deal in Doha in February, debate has abounded over the wisdom of negotiations with other terrorist groups. At the top of that list is al-Shabaab. That debate has been renewed by the appointment of now-Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, who as the director of the…
Somalia: Justice Minister Said “Justice Before Security Sector Reforms”
Mogadishu (HAN) November 23rd, 2020. The IGAD2020 Regional Security Sector Reforms & Intelligence updates. The Minister of Justice of the Federal government of Somalia, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nour, has reiterated the importance of improving the judicial system of Somalia, especially one that can bring successful security, stability and progress ahead, the Somali national news agency (SONNA)…
Somalia: Minister Appointed the Director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency
Mogadishu (HAN) 20th February, 2018. Public Diplomacy and Regional security initiatives. The former minister and member of federal Somali parliament was appointed the newly Director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), HE. Hussein Osman Hussein officially takes over the agency, according to the HAN reporter in Mogadishu. The official ceremony was held at…
Sudan: Comrade Debretsion, the man at the heart of the Tigray conflict
Khartoum (HAN) NOvember 23rd. 2020. IGAD2020 Regional Security and Defense Watch. A former Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) guerrilla fighter who used to jam the communication network of Ethiopian troops, Debretsion Gebremichael is now leading the fight against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government for control of the northern Tigray region. I told him Mr Abiy:…
Somalia: NISA chief controls current government
MOGADISHU – The Director of Somalia’s intelligence agency’s meddling the country’s politics would destroy the political system, former Somali president warned. Addressing audience during a Q&A session on Saturday in Mogadishu, former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud accused Fahad Yasin of disintegrating the agency and paralysing police saying ‘Fahad poisoned the security sector by disbanding…
Roundtable Meeting Led by UAE on Tolerance In Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) August 15th, 2019. Regional Religious Cooperation and Tolerance initiatives. The UAE Embassy in Addis Ababa hosted a roundtable meeting on tolerance, as part of its activities for the Year of Tolerance 2019. The meeting was attended by Suood Ibrahim Alamash, Acting Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy, Cardinal Burhan Yossus Surafil, Archbishop of the Catholic Church, Father Samuel, Chairman…
Ethiopia: The Battle and Fall of Mekelle
Addis Ababa (HAN) November 22nd 2020. Regional Defense and Security Watch. The federal National Defense Force (ENDF) which is engaged in a law enforcement operation in Tigray is marching to Mekelle winning in all fronts, according to Defense Forces Operation Main Department. Representative of the Main Head of Defense Forces Operation Main Department, Brigadier General Tesfaye…
