Category: Djibouti
Djibouti: France's counter-terrorism combat force move to Mali
Djibouti: (HAN) August 4, 2014. Regional Defense and Security news. Regional security reporter reported that, the Operation Barkhane is essentially a French anti-terrorist combat force of 3000 men, permanently stationed in the African Sahel. It has a centralized command headquartered in Chad and includes heavy arms, notably about 40 planes for combat and intelligence operations,…
Djibouti: Obama tactics and American Strategical Military Bases in Africa
Djibouti (HAN) August 3, 2014 – Public diplomacy and regional strategic partnership news, edited by Nur Kafi, Managing Editor and Publisher. The security situation in Sub-Sahara Africa is as volatile and tenuous; militia groups and militants are in control of significant critical areas of territory and continue to exert pressure on the central government authorities. While…
Djibouti: IGAD Special Envoy welcomes Central State in Somalia
Djibouti (HAN) August 2, 2014 – Regional Governs and Security News. In a statement issued by IGAD on Thursday July 31, 2014, the IGAD Special Envoy to Somalia, Ambassador Mohamed Affey welcomed the signing of the agreement to set up a Central State in Somalia. Ambassador Mohamed Affey congratulated the Federal Government of Somalia for…
Djibouti: AFRICOM trained Gaashaan become a symbol Somalia's fledgling State
Djibouti (HAN) August 2nd, 2014. Regional defense and security. African Union troops and Somali National army (SNA) retook Southern Somali towns from the militant group Al-Shabaab. The capture of towns came relatively easy through Somali army tactics. When the Somali national army and AMISOM troops approached, Al-Shabab just retreated into the hinterland. But many Al-Shabaab…
Djibouti: Africom Gains New Perspective
Djibouti (HAN) July 30, 2014. Horn of Africa Defense and security news. An Air Force NCO recently had the opportunity to job shadow Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa’s top enlisted leader July 11, 2014, at Camp Lemonnier. U. S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Rohlfing, 870th Air Expeditionary Squadron Radar Advisory Unit watch supervisor,…
Djibouti: Internal security has been tightened to mitigate threats
Djibouti (HAN) July 21, 2014. Regional IGAD defense and Security news update. The threat of terror attacks in Somalia, Djbouti, Kenya and Ethiopia was underlined when national security agents in Mogadishu arrested five Al-Shabaab militants who had been driving a car with improvised explosive devices concealed inside their car towards International Airport. The Somali security…
Djibouti: Ambassador Tom Kelly, the first ambassadorial posting for the career civil servant
Nairobi (HAN) July 21, 2014 – Diplomacy & Diplomatic News: U.S. Ambassador Tom Kelly, It would be the first ambassadorial posting for the career civil servant. Thomas P. Kelly III appeared before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on May 13, 2014, as it considered his nomination, five weeks earlier, by President Barack Obama to be…
Somali Lemonade Horse wins the 2014 Diana at Saratoga
Saratoga (HAN) July 21, 2014 – Sports and Horse Race: Somali Lemonade rallied down the middle of the track and held off a late run from Stephanie’s Kitten to win the $500,000 Diana by a neck on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. Somali Lemonade is back on the same Keeneland turf course over which she…
Djibouti: unfairly Doraleh port agreement is Africa's largest container terminal
Addis Ababa (HAN) July 12, 2014. Regional Market news update. Djibouti’s $1.2 billion economy relies on services related to the country’s location on the Red Sea, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Transportation accounts for a third of gross domestic product in the nation, which is targeting increasing capacity at Doraleh to 3 million…
Somalia: Terror incident “validates“ to promote a stable and secure Africa
London (HAN) July 6, 2014. Part 2 – Energy and security research news edited by Dr.Abdulahi Mohamed: In a new article by David Andrew Weinberg is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote: While the world panics over the conquests of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Saudi Arabia,…
