Category: Daily Security Briefing
Ethiopia: What the EU and the US can do, Audio Programme
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) December 12.2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, ordered a military offensive against regional forces in Tigray. Since then, the situation has been spiralling out of control, with increasing international concern over access to the Tigray region…
Ethiopia: Zenawi Was Indeed a Ruthless Killer and Patron of Terror
ASMARA (HAN) December 12.2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has shaped Ethiopia’s terror history for decades and Geeska Afrika Online has a good news and bad news for its readers this month, December 2020. 1- The bad news is it’s the 2020 holiday season and…
Ethiopia: Special Forces Takes Measures Against 370 OLF-Shene Members
Addis Ababa, December 10, 2020 –The Oromia special police force has taken measures against 370 members of the OLF-Shene group during a month-long operation. Some 176 members of the group were captured during the operation, in addition to 154 arrested by the public, according to office of the Oromia Prosperity Party. Moreover, 183 members of…
Eritrean troops not fighting in Ethiopia: UN chief
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 9 – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that there is no proof of Eritrean troops inside Ethiopia, where government forces are fighting rebels in the northernmost region of Tigray. “We have no proof of the presence of Eritrean troops inside Ethiopia. I confronted the (Ethiopian) prime minister with that question, and…
5 militants killed by Somali army in southern region
Somali National Army (SNA) on Monday killed five al-Shabab fighters in a security operation in Gedo region in the southern part of the country, a military officer confirmed. The army conducted a planned operation targeting bases run by al-Shabab militants along the road linking Luq and Garbaharey towns, said Osman Abdi Qorah, commander of SNA’s…
Ethiopia: Top Military Officers Discuss Ways To Arrest Criminal TPLF Junta
Addis Ababa, December 9, 2020 –Deputy Chief of Staff of the National Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Abebaw Tadesse held discussion with military officers in the city of Mekelle, Tigray regional state. The discussion mainly focused on ways of hunting down and arresting the criminal TPLF clique, said the Ministry of Defense on its official Facebook…
Ethiopia: Sudan Sends Military in border areas after 25 years
December 5, 2020 – The Sudanese army deployed its troops in the border agricultural areas of Gadaref which had been controlled for more than two decades by Ethiopian militias. Several days ago, the Sudanese army took control of the Khor Yabiscamp inside Al-Fashga Al-Saghra after 25 years. Military sources say still half of the internationally…
Somalia: Local Peace Aspirations and International Perceptions of Peacebuilding
MOGADISHU (HAN) December 6.2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY: Nicolas Verbeek. The political situation in Somalia after the Somali Civil War (1988-1991) seems increasingly intractable from the perspective of the international community. Somali elites have a significant interest in maintaining a status quo of relative instability, since they benefit…
Somalia: US Military Experts Pull-out
MOGADISHU (HAN) December 6.2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. By Mohamed Mohamud Adde. Somalia is a very strategic location in the world and that is what attracts the world powers to seek influence over Somali peninsula over the years. In 1970s and 1980s the former Soviet Union competed with US…
Muse Bihi Favours Maintaining Regional US forces Presence in Somaliland
Hargeisa (HAN), December 6th, 2020. Regional Security and maritime initiates for the Red Sea.The government of Somaliland promptly welcomes the opportunity to strengthen partnership with upcoming United States administration, since US President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of nearly all US troops from Somalia by 15 January, 2021, while also President Trump has issued similar orders to…
