Category: Djibouti

  • Djibouti: Concerns about Al-Shabaab's  British Connection

    Djibouti: Concerns about Al-Shabaab's British Connection

    Djibouti (HAN) September 14, 2014 – Defense and national security news. A British intelligence assessment by the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism analysis shows that the British intelligence have already arrested 69 people this year for “Syria related terrorist offences” that include terrorist financing, preparing an act of terrorism, and attending a terrorist training camp. British…

  • Djibouti: Arab League “demanded Eritrea to release Djibouti soldier immediately”

    Djibouti: Arab League “demanded Eritrea to release Djibouti soldier immediately”

    Djibouti (HAN) September 11, 2014 – Regional defense and security news.  The Arab League released a press statement after  meeting on Sept. 7, 2014,  held at the level of Arab foreign ministers condemned Eritrea for “the kidnapping of a Djiboutian soldier from the demilitarized zone” on the border between Eritrea and Djibouti. The Arab League “demanded…

  • Djibouti: Global coalition to defeat Islamist extremists

    Djibouti: Global coalition to defeat Islamist extremists

    Djibouti (HAN) September 10, 2014 – Regional defense and diplomatic news. The United States is taking the lead in an international coalition aimed at repelling and defeating the Islamist extremists marauding across parts of Iraq and Syria, according to  Al-Ahram sources. Jihadists from the so-called “Islamic State,” still referred to by US officials by their former…

  • Djibouti: U.S. Marine helicopter crashed again

    Djibouti: U.S. Marine helicopter crashed again

    Djibouti (HAN) September 2nd, 2014 – Regional Defense and security news. The U.S. Marine helicopter crashed into the Arabian Sea Monday following training exercises in Djibouti, the U.S. Navy said. The UN navy helicopter were carrying 25 military members, 17 marines and eight sailors, aboard the Super Stallion chopper were safely recovered from the Gulf of…

  • Somali: British radical Khadijah wanted to carry out a copycat killing

    Somali: British radical Khadijah wanted to carry out a copycat killing

    London (HAN) August 30, 2014 – Regional safety and security news. Militants from Islamic State (Isis) claimed to have killed an American journalist long held captive in Syria in retaliation for ongoing US air strikes against its forces in Iraq. Somali clerics, Sheikh Nur Barud, say they are wworriedabout Somali youth who are leaving their…

  • Djibouti: Launched Offensive to remove Al-Shabaab out of Southern Somalia

    Djibouti: Launched Offensive to remove Al-Shabaab out of Southern Somalia

    Djibouti (HAN) August 26, 2014 – Regional safety and security monitoring news. The central command of AMISOM has said, it will resume this week an offensive against Al Shabaab militant group to remove a remaining villeges in Southern Somalia. The African union forces spokesman of Djibouti Col. Ali Hamud has said the final offensive which will…

  • Djibouti: The crew Leader of US-owned anti-pirate leader arrested

    Djibouti: The crew Leader of US-owned anti-pirate leader arrested

    Djibouti  (HAN) August 19, 2014 – Regional security and marine safety news. The Indian navy is not yet  convinced the story of US security firm called AdvanFort, who use to station in Somali waters to protect Ships. “The simple explanation that the vessel was providing security to other merchant vessels from pirates cannot be taken at…

  • Somalia: Turkey's Erdogan presidency will increase regional business and investment

    Somalia: Turkey's Erdogan presidency will increase regional business and investment

    Djibouti (HAN) August 13, 2014 – Regional defense and security news. The regional Voices from the Horn of African capitals: The Turkish election and Erdogan presidency. It’s true that Erdogan leadership has been successful on the Somali capitals peace process and Somalia diaspora hope to return Somali soil through Turkish Airlines direct flight from Europe…

  • Djibouti: Diaspora trust, the key outcomes from the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit

    Djibouti: Diaspora trust, the key outcomes from the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit

    Washington (HAN) August 8, 2014- Diaspora Investment news. Through African Diaspora, western aid, philanthropy and investments have been seen as the drivers of development, especially funding, in Africa, Specialy in Somalia, kenya, and Ethiopia. With improving economic indicators in many IGAD countries and an increasing number of middle-class and wealthy individuals, there is now recognition…

  • Djibouti: The Somali American Community are Hosting Ismail Omar

    Djibouti: The Somali American Community are Hosting Ismail Omar

    Minnesota (HAN) August 5, 2014 – Community and Public Diplomacy Event for IGAD Countries. The Somali American Community of Mannisota Is Hosting this week, the president of Djibouti Ismail Omar Geele. There is so much the people of Somalia owe Djibouti and its people as you all remember in 2000 Djibouti organized the first all-inclusive…

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