Category: Daily Security Briefing
Somalia: The assassination of three top aviation and transport officials
Mogadishu (HAN) February 17, 2015- Public Diplomacy and Regional Aviation security news. A three top senior Somali aviation and transport officials were killed in a drive-by shooting in Mogadishu. A Somali militant Al-shabaab group were travelling in a car have sprayed bullets on a car carrying three senior civil aviation officials at Mogadishu’s landmark KM4…
Eritrea: The Mediterranean route is extremely treacherous
Tripoli (HAN) February 16, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Humanitarian news. The Eritrean opposition leader warned that Asmara is at a crossroads between “Humanitarian crisis and youth Disintegration,” while U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned, “Eritrea youth influx has tripled compared with last year”. The 22 per cent of the people arriving by boat in to…
Djibouti: Yemen's successful counter-terrorism is "total disaster"
Djibouti (HAN) February 14, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Maritime security News. The U.S. Embassy’s closure has also forced the CIA to pull out dozens of personnel, including senior operatives who were working with Yemen’s government against Arabian terrorist groups in the region. Yemen’s government by Shiite rebels last month caught U.S. intelligence off guard.…
Djibouti: After Somalia 'Yemen's Growing Regional Threat'
Djibouti (HAN) February 12, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional political news. The Yemeni Houthi group, a Hezbollah style Shiia militia group ‘seizes US embassy vehicles’ chanting death to America. When Yemen’s Houthi fighters scaled the rooftops surrounding former president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s home, killed his guards and put him under house arrest, they left no…
Somalia: Where does the Western Diplomats currently stand?
Mogadishu (HAN) February 12, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional political news. An International joint statement released by the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union, IGAD, the UK and the US welcomed Parliament’s approval, and reiterated their call for Somalia’s leaders and institutions to work together to accelerate delivery of the milestones of the…
Ethiopia: Puntland Leader Attended a Security Briefing in Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (HAN) February 10, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional security news. Puntland regional President Dr. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas along with a regional delegation has been warmly welcomed in Addis Ababa by Senior Ethiopian leaders including foreign minister Dr. Tedros have received President of Puntland Abdiweli at the Bole International airport in Addis…
Eritrea: Afwerki "vows never to steal public funds"
Khartoum (HAN) February 10, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional security news. President Isyas Afwerki told Eritrean people in 1992, “his government officials and EPLF leaders has vowed never to embezzle public funds”. The freedom fighter-politician told his EPLF followers that Eritrea deserved honest men like him and his team who would not squander African…
Ethiopia signed Mega Gas Pipeline Project
Djibouti (HAN) February 9, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Infrastructure investment news. Ethiopia and Djibouti signed Ministerial meeting on Mineral Sector Cooperation and also Protocol on Mega Gas Pipeline Project to be built parallel to the Ethio-Djibouti Railway which is expected to be operational on 2016. The Geeska Afrika Online is Free government-funded. HAN (Horn…
Somalia: Killers Assassinated Member of Parliament in Mogadishu
Mogadishu (HAN) February 9, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional security news. Somalia Al-Shabaab militant again shot dead a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu, just hours before a scheduled vote of confidence in the new council of ministers. Al-Shabaab militant gunmen in a car opened fire on Abdullahi Qayad Barre after he left his house in the…
Somalia: 191 Parliamenterian Approved the Cabinet
Mogadishu (HAN) February 9, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional political news. Somalia has a new cabinet after the parliament approved it with a 191 parliamentarians approved the new cabinet and 22 parliamentarians voted no. This will be the end of months of Socio-political crisis in Somalia. Somali parliament has endorsed the new cabinet after prime minister was forced to…
