Category: Daily Security Briefing
Somalia: Expert on Somalia’s Political and Regional Security Crisis
Mogadishu (HAN) October 19, 2014. Public diplomacy and Regional security and safety news. An Interview with the view of Somalia’s political and regional security crisis: An interview with Dr. Abdurahman Abdullahi Baadiyow, Leader of Somalia’s National Unity Party. In recent weeks, Somali security forces working in unison with troops of the African Union Mission in…
Eritrea: Comprehensive proposal to Trafficking and Smuggling in Africa
Asmara (HAN) October 18, 2014 – Public diplomacy, National safety and Security News. According to Geeska Afrika Online archives, It is common practice for a growing number of conferenses on human trafficking and smuggling to attempt to quantify the size and nature of the problem. The most often cited figure, in reports and Geeska Afrika Online…
Eritrea: UN Monitor's Scandal “Regime Change” Letter Resigned
Asmara (HAN) October 17, 2014. Regional security and corruption Scandal news. The UN’s Somali-Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG) is not only shrouded in corruption that needs to be tackled at the UN level but the SEMG abuses its mandate as a body overseeing UN sanctions on Somalia and Eritrea such as, among other things, embargo of…
Kenya: No AMISOM troops from Ebola affected West Africa in Somalia
Nairobi (HAN) October 16, 2014 – Public diplomacy, National safety and Security News. The federal Somali Minister of health Ali Mohamed Mohamoud dismissed reports that troops from the Ebola-hit West African states of Sierra Leone and others will be deployed in Somalia, he added that it had an earlier agreement with the African union mission…
Somalia: President Blames Security Breach on Arms Trafficking
Mogadishu (HAN) October 15, 2014. Public Diplomacy and National security news. The UN Security Council Investigators have accused an advisor to Somalia’s President of involvement in the unauthorized diversion of government weapons to Islamist militants with ties to al-Qaeda, according to a confidential new report. The accusation by the Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group, an eight-member panel…
Ethiopia: Japan facilitated Security training in conflict prevention
Addis Ababa (HAN) October 15, 2014. Public Diplomacy and National security news.In Mogadis. A ten-day training course in conflict prevention for senior military officers from nine East African countries started on Monday (October 13) at AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa. The training is organized by the Ethiopian International Peacekeeping Training Center (EIPKTC) which funded and…
Somalia: The security situation remains fragile
Mogadishu (HAN) October 12, 2014. Public Diplomacy and National security news.In Mogadishu, Unknown Gunmen shot and seriously wounded a Somali journalist working for a London-based television channel in an attack outside his home in Mogadishu on Sunday, colleagues said. Abdirisak Jama, Mogadishu bureau chief for Somali Channel Television, received several bullets to the stomach in the…
Somalia: collective commitment to listen Puntland security concerns
Mogadishu (HAN) October 10, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. Presidential briefing note received by Geeska Afrika Online. The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia is visiting Puntland which is a part of the Federal Republic of Somalia. President Hassan said, “I believe very strongly, as does the Prime Minister, a united,…
Eritrea: National legislative measures to eliminate terrorism
Asmara (HAN) October 10, 2014. Public diplomacy and International security news. various strategy pertaining to eliminating international terrorism. Eritrea’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Girma Asmerom, has underscored that Eritrea reaffirms its unequivocal condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestation. He made the remarks at the Sixth Committee of the 69th…
Ethiopia briefed Swiss Secretary on the current security in Somalia
Addis Ababa (HAN) October 8, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. Ethiopia State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Berhane Gebre-Christos held discussions with Swiss State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Yves Rossier, on various issues of bilateral and multilateral relations. State Minister Ambassador Berhane noted that Ethiopia and Switzerland have long standing friendly relations at…
