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General Austin: A threat or an opportunity for the Horn of African security?
Mogadishu (HAN) 13th December, 2020. Regional security and Drone operation in Somalia. The new re-engagement of an African military command 2021 by the United States reflects the growing focus of the United States on Africa in the US National Security Strategy, which appears to be continuing under new US President Joe Biden. The appointment of Gen.…
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 Earns Close To $770M: EXPORT BOOM
Addis Ababa December 9, 2020 –The Ministry of Finance announced that the country has earned $769.9 million from export during the first quarter of this Ethiopian fiscal. The revenue has shown $46.9 million increase compared to the same period last fiscal year. Finance State Minister, Eyob Tekalign today presented a three-month performance report of the…
Ethiopia PM start a two-day visit to Kenya
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will on Wednesday start a two-day visit to neighbouring Kenya, his first foreign trip since he announced the completion of a military operation in the northern Tigray region. He will be received by his host President Uhuru Kenyatta in Moyale, a border town in north-eastern Kenya. The two leaders are…
Ethiopia: Post-TPLF Part I “Militarily Defeated”
by Worku Aberra. Now that the military operation against the TPLF’s rebellion has successfully concluded, Ethiopia must embark on a democratic order free from the vestiges of the TPLF. The first order of business in creating the new Ethiopia is outlawing the TPLF as a terrorist organization. The government has the legal, moral, and political obligation…
Somalia: Apolitical Somali Security Force
The Somali Security forces have been receiving training, funding and military equipment from US, Turkey and other friendly countries. The work of rebuilding professional security is getting compromised by senior figures in the government, who don’t understand the function of security forces as specified in the draft constitution of Somalia. These officials do not have…
Eritrea Frees Religious Prisoners Jailed for a Quarter Century
Eritrea released 28 Jehovah’s Witnesses who spent between five and 26 years in prison without trial, the religious group said. The detainees were freed on Dec. 4, while 24 others still remain in prison, according to a statement on its website. Seven of the group’s followers have died in Eritrea, either in prison or shortly after being…
Ethiopia pushes telecoms privatisation “Multibillion-dollar Deal”
Ethiopia is pressing ahead with what it said would be a multibillion-dollar privatisation of its telecoms sector in spite of a recent military conflict in the northern Tigray region and a slowing economy because of Covid-19. The minister in charge of the privatisation called it “a once-in-a-century reform” in a country of 110m people that…
Ethiopia: Why the Western democracies back Meles Zenawi
NARIOBI (HAN) 21 August 2012. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has died at the age of 57, was rightly described as an important Western ally in the Horn of Africa. Yet, he is an unlikely partner for Western democracies. A hardline Marxist-Leninist, who once…
