Category: Events
Farmajo: How an American Bureaucrat Became President of Somalia
Buffalo, USA. By TAYLOR GEE February 19, 2017. He was a refugee who embraced U.S.-style democracy. Now’s he’s trying to bring it home. POLITICO Magazine. On the morning of February 8, 2017, a civil servant from Buffalo, New York—a Somali by birth but an American by choice—walked into a heavily guarded airplane hangar in the…
Eritrea: Eritrean Volunteers Come Forward to Offer Support Armenia
Asmara (HAN) 30th October, 2020. Regional Security updates. Eritreans condemned the humanitarian issues and shows it to assist efforts to ease tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but it fell short of expressing its full support for the Armenian just cause about the so called Artsakh statehood and failed to express explicit…
Somalia president visited Asmara, Denied Planned Meeting with Uhuru
Nairobi (HAN) October 27, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Security updates. Somalia has denied reports of a planned meeting in Nairobi between President Uhuru and his Somalia counterpart Farmajo. The Somalia president visited Asmara this month and there were reports in the Kenya and Eritrean free press that Farmajo would meet Uhuru and the Ugandan…
Somalia: Security Experts Blindsided by Trump Assertion of US troops Pullout
Mogadishu (HAN) October 27, 2020. Regional Security and Stability Initiatives. Senior National and Regional Security officials blindsided by President Donald Trump’s assertion and announcement of US troop withdrawal from Somalia. The Trump administration has fallen prey to the pitfalls of ending Al-Shabaab killings in Somalia and kenya. Last week, Somali National Army (SNA) spokesman Major…
Somalia: International Human Rights for Independent Journalist and Writers
Mogadishu (HAN) October 22, 2020 – Public Diplomacy and International Human Rights for Independent Journalist and Writers. Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) jointly welcome the release of Radio Kulmiye journalist, Abdullahi Kulmiye Addow who was arbitrary detained and held incommunicado since Saturday night 17 October 2020, by the National Intelligence and Security…
Somalia: Intelligence Chief May be Green Lighting Terrorism Against Americans
Djibouti (HAN) Regional Security Watch. Opinion By. Michael Rubin (Resident Scholar -American Enterprise Institute). Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute paid a courtesy visit to the President of the Republic of Somaliland, His Excellency Musa Bihi Abdi, last year. M. Rubin said “The US needs to recognize Somaliland before Russia does.” Another terror threat…
Eritrea: Diplomatic Corps Reception
Asmara (HAN) December 12, 2019. Diplomatic Corps Reception in London with the Horn of African diplomats attended. Eritrea’s elite diplomats were a pretty uniform representation. The top 20 diplomats from the Honor corps reception are chosen for the Precision Drill Diplomats. According to the POLITICO Playbook, the worst jailers are Eritrea, Vietnam, and Iran.” According…
Eritrea: Canadian Risk Coveting Support of Autocratic Nations
Asmara (HAN) December 12, 2019. Public Diplomacy and International Security. Canadian Feds risk coveting support of autocratic nations in UN Security Council bid. Canadian Prime Minister is strongly seeking to win the seat when the UN General Assembly takes up. Canada is now seeking one of the rotating two-year seats on the Security Council. It…
Ethiopia: Nobel 2019 “In Pursuit of Honour”
Oslo (HAN) December 11, 2019. Public Diplomacy and International Security. Ethiopian leader Abiy Ahmed Ali receives Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo December 10th, 2019, according to Geeska Afrika Online. It was historic, on July 9, 2018, following a historic meeting in Eritrea’s capital Asmara, Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki formally ended a 20-year-old stalemate…
Why Ethiopia Peace Deal is Failing?
Addis Ababa (HAN) December 10th, 2019. Public Diplomacy & International Security. The Ethiopian Nobel winner, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali could face a new challenger with Oromo, Ogaden and Amhara ellements intimating that his vision “Greater Ethiopian Unity,” could also have a shot at the upcoming Ethiopian leadership. He promised to address Ethiopia’s deteriorating ethnic…