Category: Daily Security Briefing

  • Uganda: Busoga chiefs, "I urge you to unite", Not like Somalia

    Uganda: Busoga chiefs, "I urge you to unite", Not like Somalia

    KaMPALA (HAN) October 8, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news.   President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has called upon Busoga chiefs in Uganda to unite for the good of the Kingdom and Uganda at large. “I commend the unity among chiefs while electing the Kyabazinga. However, some chiefs are not here, I urge you…

  • Ethiopia: Tedros, &International community should urge Eritrea to stop supporting Al-Shabaab

    Ethiopia: Tedros, &International community should urge Eritrea to stop supporting Al-Shabaab

    New York (HAN) October 4, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. The Ethiopian foreign minister Tedros met with Jeffrey D. Feltman United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs  in New York. Geeska Afrika Online received a diplomatic note and the two diplomat’s discussions covered regional and specifically the Horn of African security and peacekeeping operations…

  • Somalia: Somali Foreign Minister sees "the future is bright – Coming Soon"

    Somalia: Somali Foreign Minister sees "the future is bright – Coming Soon"

    Mogadishu (HAN) October 3, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. Somalia’s Foreign Minister Abdirahman Duale Beileh has said that he sees a bright future for Somalia and believes his country will be in a better position come 2016. He said that his country is slowly recovering from years of civil war and chaos and…

  • Somaliland: Ethiopian aviation security and terror alerts

    Somaliland: Ethiopian aviation security and terror alerts

    Hargeisa (HAN) October 2, 2014. Public diplomacy and aviation security news. According to Jamal Abiib, Geeska Afrika Online security reporter, Somaliland security and aviation experts offers,  thorough review of recent aviation-related terrorist plots, subsequent mitigation strategies, and current terrorist intentions and capabilities dealing with commercial aviation in the Horn of Africa. It concludes by offering…

  • Ethiopia: Italy is keen to work strategically with Ethiopia

    Ethiopia: Italy is keen to work strategically with Ethiopia

    Addis Ababa (HAN) September 30, 2014 – Investment and National security news. The Ethiopian Foriegn minister  Tedros met with Mr. Pestilli, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Italy, on Friday  in New York, on the margins of the 69th UN General Assembly. Mr. Pestilli said that Italy was keen…

  • Ethiopia Shared $5 billion counterterrorism Partnerships fund

    Ethiopia Shared $5 billion counterterrorism Partnerships fund

    New York (HAN)September 26, 2014, Public Diplomacy and Regional strateic defense and Security news. President Obama meets with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailermariam Desalegn. Presdent Obama has spent much of the week discussing his counterterrorism plans, including airstrikes in Syria, Somalia and Iraq against the jihadist group known as the Islamic State and Islamic…

  • Ethiopia: Norwegian Envoy to Somalia exchanged views on regional issues

    Ethiopia: Norwegian Envoy to Somalia exchanged views on regional issues

    Addis Ababa (HAN) September 25, 2014 – Defense and National security news. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dewano Kedir, met Jens Mjaugedal, Norwegian Special Envoy to Somalia. Discussions focused on the need to strengthen the innovative cooperative partnership with the view to elevate bilateral ties to a new level, working in concert for the creation…

  • Somaliland:  Norway will assist the fight against regional piracy projects

    Somaliland: Norway will assist the fight against regional piracy projects

    Hargeisa (HAN) September 24, 2014 – Public diplomacy and National security news. President Ahmed Silanyo received at the presidential palace Norway’s Special Envoy to Somalia Mr. Jens Mjaugel who arrived in the country on official working visit to Hargeisa. During the meeting they exchanged views on number of issues ranging from Norway providing assistance to…

  • Eritrea: Ethiopian Ginbot 7 members are suffering debilitating illnesses

    Eritrea: Ethiopian Ginbot 7 members are suffering debilitating illnesses

    Asmara (HAN) September, 23. 2014 – Defense and National security news. The few remaining Ginbot 7 members in Eritrea are suffering from malnutrition and debilitating illnesses. The Ethiopian Amara Ginbot 7’s former head of training in Eritrea, Masresha Badenga, says that the organization has less than 20 members in the field and most of them…

  • Somalia: National Intelligence officers are screening Al-Shabaab defectors

    Somalia: National Intelligence officers are screening Al-Shabaab defectors

    Mogadishu (HAN) September, 23. 2014 – Defense and National security news. The number of Al-shabaab defectors who have surrendered to the government security continue to increase as the joint forces plan to move on the second major military offensive. Lower Shabelle Governor Abdukadir Nur Siidii has mentioned that 41 newly defected Al-shabaab members have surrendered…

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