Category: Daily Security Briefing
Kenya: A New PM Selection Won't Change Somali's Challenges or Its Response
Nairobi (HAN) December 14, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. Somali’s most significant challenges will not go away, regardless of who holds office in Mogadishu, according to security expert in Nairobi, Kenya told Geeska Afrika Online. He added his statement, A new Prime minister selections today only, without changing constitutional challenges, is unlikely to…
Djibouti: Turkey Seeks Behind-the-scenes role in NATO Coalition
Djibouti (HAN) December 14, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by Desmond Butler. Turkey’s defense of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the tears of Recep Tayyip Erdogan when the Egyptian security forces attempted to storm the sit-in of Rabaa al-Adawiya, proved Erdogan’s ties with the Muslim Brotherhood’s international organization and…
Eritrea is Not Willing to Negotiate Diplomatically
Khartoum (HAN) December 13, 2014 – Public Diplomacy and Regional safety and Security news. While regional security experts say the near miss between Eritrean diplomats and President Ismail Omar Ghelle of Djibouti at the United Nations General Assembly last September means little to the ultimate fate of negotiations with Eritrea over its border claim issues and other…
Somaliland: The UK Foreign Office "Terrorist attacks could be indiscriminate"
London (HAN) December 11, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. The high threat from terrorism still current at: 11 December 2014, according to The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland except for the cities of Hargeisa and Berbera to…
Kenya: Ethiopia Replaced Ambassador Shemsedin Ahmed for security reasons
Nairobi (HAN) December 10, 2014 – Public Diplomacy, safety and Regional Security news. Ambassador Shemsedin Ahmed (Somali-Ethiopian) said conflict between border communities of Somali origin has also contributed to border insecurity, between Kenya-Somalia and Ethiopia-Somalia. Ethiopian Ambassador Shemsedin Ahmed added his statement, without a long term strategy – Somali border conflict and Somali plights in…
Djibouti: Expeditionary force tailored in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility
Djibouti (HAN) December 9, 2014 – Regional defense and Security news. Marines with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), offload equipment from CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163 (Reinforced), 11th MEU, during sustainment training in D’Arta Plage, Djibouti. The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the embarked 11th MEU provide a…
Somalia: Somali-Canadian Women's Activist Received German Human Rights Award 2014
Berlin (HAN) December 9, 2014 – Public safety and Regional Humanitarian Award news. Somali-Canadian Women’s Rights Activist Receives Germany’s FES Human Rights Award 2014, according to Deutsche Welle in Germany. According to Geeska Afrika Online reporter in Mogadishu, Fartuun Adan has spent decades campaigning for the rights of traumatized women in war-torn Somalia. Germany’s Friedrich Ebert Foundation…
Kenya: Nairobi Security police admit to “eliminating” suspected Muslim radicals
Nairobi (HAN) December 8, 2014 – Public safety and Regional Security news. For the first time members of Kenya’s counter-terrorism police admit to “eliminating” suspected Muslim radicals. They have received training and intelligence from Britain’s military and other officials as part of their counter-terrorism efforts to eliminate Muslims and Muslim leaders in Kenya. INSIDE KENYA’S DEATH…
Djibouti: John Maguire's ISIS video urges attacks on Canadian soil
Djibouti (HAN) December 8, 2014 – Public safety and Regional Security news. The so called ISIS has released a warning video featuring an Ottawa man known in Iraq Abu Anwar al-Canadi, calling on his fellow Muslim countrymen to carry out lone-wolf attacks on Canadian targets. John Maguire (Abu Anwar al-Canadi), who was already reportedly under investigation…
Somali: Aden’s church alleged killing of Abdisamad treating as hate crime
Kansas City (HAN) December 8, 2014 – Public safety and Regional Security news. Ahmed Haji Aden, a 34-year-old Kansas City, is a Somali Christian, also is the target of a federal civil rights investigation, under the the federal response to hate crime. According to IAN LOVETT article of hate crimes in Kansas city dated, April…
