Category: Daily Security Briefing
Ethiopia: 71 People Arrested Over Planned Terrorist Attacks
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 11. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Police in collaboration with Joint Peace and Security Task Force arrested 71 people over planned terrorist attacks in Addis Ababa and other towns and cities across the nation. In a press release it sent to FBC, the the joint Peace…
Djibouti thrives in ‘return to COLD WAR’
On the high of a lighthouse in a abandoned headland, Ali Hassan Ali factors throughout the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, to war-ravaged Yemen. Then, behind him, to war-torn Ethiopia. Then, to his proper, at troubled Somalia. Lastly, to his left at Eritrea, a dictatorship engaged within the Tigray battle subsequent door. “This can be a level…
Largest US pipeline halts all operations after cyber-attack
Colonial Pipeline, the largest refined products pipeline company in the US, says it has experienced a major cyber-attack. The incident has prompted the company to halt all its pipeline operations. “We proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT system,” the company said in…
General Stephen Townsend: China’s Africa outreach poses threat from Atlantic
WASHINGTON —By LOLITA C. BALDOR The top U.S general for Africa is warning that a growing threat from China may come not just from the waters of the Pacific but from the Atlantic as well. U.S. Gen. Stephen Townsend, in an interview with The Associated Press, said Beijing is looking to establish a large navy…
Ethiopia: Govt Foils Extremists’ Plan to Throw Election Into Chaos
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 7. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY HAFTU GEBREZGABIHER. The Joint Task Force for Intelligence and Security said that it has foiled the ill intent of disrupting the 6th Ethiopian general elections by some extremist members of the Diaspora residing in various countries and locally organized…
Somalia: Security & Elections, Roadmap For the Next month
MOGADISHU (HAN) May 6. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Mogadishu briefing: The notes of the C6+ meeting with PM today at the Hangar (Xalane) Mogadishu, Somalia. Demilitarization of SNA troops in different parts of Mogadishu is first priority- Quick resolution to the crisis in Mogadishu The September 17th Deal…
Somalia: Young MP Candidate Against Farmajo Administration Killed last night
MOGADISHU (HAN) May 6. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Aweis Omar Salad an upcoming young candidate for MP has been killed by gunmen in Wadajir district in Mogadishu. Aweis Omar was a campaigner for an opposition presidential candidate Dahir Mohamud Gelle. Tonight Somali gov says all pro-opposition forces, who entered…
Ethiopia: Naval Ambitions, New logo & Uniform
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 4. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Ethiopia‘s Naval Force has unveiled new logo & uniform today in an occasion graced by the ENDF Chief of Staff, Gen. Berhanu Jula. The Naval Force was disestablished in 1996 after independence of Eritrea in 1991. Ethiopia is gradually…
Somalia: Farmajo is Building Tribal Military to Survive
HARGEISA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Opinion: By: Prof. hussein. Hussein. Somalia is now marred with tribal tug war camouflaged as good will for the country and it’s people. Farmaajo is a man hungry for power. He has been building tribal military for some time. Now…
Somalia AU Troops to remain neutral in Mogadishu crisis
ADDIS ABABA – Troops working under the framework of African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) have been asked to remain neutral in order to effectively facilitate the demilitarisation of Mogadishu and environs. Meeting of the Coordination Committee (MOCC) chaired by Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security (C-PAPS) has warned Amisom…
