Category: Daily Security Briefing
Somalia: Al-Shabaab commando style raid inside presidential palace
Mogadishu (HAN) July 8, 2014 – Brief new Security Updates. Somalia Prime minister fired the police and intelligence chiefs a day after Islamic militants attacked the heavily guarded presidential palace in the capital, Mogadishu, the information minister announced Wednesday. Government troops and African Union peacekeepers repelled the attack and no government official was hurt, Mustafa Dhuhulow said.…
Somalia: The Saudis had feared a dramatic shift in energy influence to Africa
London (HAN) July 6, 2014. Energy and security research news edited by Dr.Abdulahi Mohamed: Although the turmoil of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is good news for Saudi Arabia from an energy, economics, and external power perspective, it unfortunately spells bad news for Saudi-American relations towards the Horn of Africa new initiative energy policy,…
Ethiopia: Britain opposes death penalty of Ethiopian opposition leader
Addis Ababa (HAN) July 5, 2014 – the guardian and Geeska Afrika Online security reports. The Ethiopian opposition leader Andargachew Tsige, a doul British national and Ethiopian, is secretary general of an exiled Ethiopian opposition movement, Ginbot 7. He was arrested at Sana’a airport on 23 June by the Yemeni security services while in transit…
Somalia: U.S. Africa Command engaged Al-shabaab militants except in self-defense
Djibouti (HAN) Jul 5, 2014 – Edited and reported by Dr.Abdulahi Mohammad Aboubakar. In the politically charged aftermath of terror attacks in Somalia and Kenya, it emerged that something crucial was missing from the structure of U.S. Africa Command: a rapid reaction force in the Horn of Africa. The U.S. military has acknowledged having an…
Somalia: The third Parliamenterian assassinated this year
Mogadishu (HAN) Jul 3, 2014 – A Somali Federal member of Parliament assassinated today in Mogadishu. Mohammad Mohamoud Hayd was one of the longest serving members of Parliament having been a member from 2000, according to Geeska Afrika Online note received from Somali Parliamentarian HE Hosh. Somali lawmaker Mohamed Mohamud Heyd is the third…
Somalia: AFRICOM are working more directly with Somali forces
Mogadishu (HAN) July 3rd, 2014- As AFRICOM refocuses on its East African borders after South Sudan Crisis, the United States is quietly deploying more troops to train special forces in former Soviet bloc states of Somalia, Yemen, Ethiopia and Sudan. A US army Major exercises began last month in Poland, Slovakia and the Baltic states…
Djibouti displayed a retired M109Ls tank from Italian Army by Oto Malera
Djibouti (HAN) July 2, 2014 – This week Defense and Security, the Djibouti Armed Forces displayed its newly acquired M109 self-propelled howitzers and Puma armoured personnel carriers (APCs) for the first time during the country’s Independence Day celebrations on 27 June. Major Ali Dheere, Acting Contingent Commander said “we are gathered here today to mark…
Somalia: whether AMISOM Approach will Permanently Dismember Somalia
Mogadishu (HAN) July 1, 2014. Geeska Afrika Onlines looks at the tactics and the Idea behind Al-Shabaab and AMISOM’s Strategical differences; while, Puntland’s Vice president accuses Somaliland of being behind the recent events in Southern Somalia and Puntland, alleging “foreign meddling.” Let us read what Professor Abdi Ismail Samatar wrote about the current Issues: Two…
Eritrea: Israel's Migrant Crisis
Cairo (HAN) July 1, 2014 – Geeska Afrika Onlines look at the numbers behind Israel’s influx of asylum seekers and the elements who are behind detention center crisis. Eritreans with other Thousands of Sudanis migrants appeal for international support in fight against controversial policy towards migrants. Around 1,000 African migrant detainees, most of whom are Eritreans,…
Eritrea: President Isaias Afwerki Rejects UN Report on Eritrea
Asmara (HAN) June 30, 2014 – Presidential Press Release – Eritrean Leader rejects Alleged Destabilization Role in Eritrea, according to a note sent to Geeska Afrika Online mentioned that, his government has refused to cooperate with Keetharuth and denies it has committed any human rights violations in Eritrea. The UN report of the Special Rapporteur…
