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Somalia: Meet the Office of the President’s Team
Mogadishu (HAN) November 3rd, 2020. Public Diplomacy and International Relations. Editor’s note: Meet the Cabinet and the Presidents team. The Newly State Minister for Office of the President, Prof. Hassan Ma’alim Khalif hosted the Egyptian and German envoys in his villa Somalia (VS)office, Mogadishu. The Egyptian Ambassador, Mohamed Nasir, and his counterpart from the German…
Somalia Impact: The Pentagon’s Slush fund
Djibouti (HAN) 31 October 2020. Opinion and Public diplomacy observations: The U.S. Army’s fiscal 2021 wish list, also known as an unfunded requirements list, sent to Congress amounts to nearly $5 billion more than the service placed on its list last fiscal year, and it would give its multi-domain units in Europe and the Indo-Pacific…
Eritrea Sees Opportunity to Increase its Regional Role
Asmara (HAN) 30th October, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives. A senior advisor to the Eritrean leader says the reason behind the recent flare-up in violence is that Egypt has been emboldened by United States (President Trump Administration) support and now has military might it didn’t have previously. Those resources and the lack of…
Why Eritrea Shifts Course on Egypt?
Khartoum (HAN) October 16, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Energy Initiatives updates. Opinion Article “Eritrea shifts course on Egypt-Ethiopia dispute over Nile dam” By. Ayah Aman is a senior journalist based in Cairo, Egypt. She works for Al-Shorouk daily newspaper. The visit of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki to the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam…
President Trump wins Eritrea will Witness Peaceful Transitions Soon
Khartoum (HAN) October 28, 2020. Diplomacy and Regional Security updates. Eritrean rebel leader Isaias Afewerki’s divisive rule over the Eritrean people and its land is as strong as ever, over fifty years since taking power in 1975 as a rebel-EPLF. Eritrean leader Awerki surprised the statement last week from the leaders of America, Sudan and…
French Embassy Tells Citizens in Djibouti to stay on High Alert
Djibouti (HAN) October, 28, 2020. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security Alerts. French Embassy warned its citizens living or travelling in several IGAD countries, such as Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea and Somaliland to take extra security precautions as anger surged over the illegal religious cartoons published by the French paper in Paris to insult Prophet…
Kenya: Cuban Doctors Abducted In Kenya In 2019 are still in Custody
Nairobi (HAN) October 27, 2020. Regional Security Watch. AFP Sources and HAN Update: (Fale Information) Two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya’s northeast in April 2019 and taken over the border to Somalia by suspected Al-Shabaab militants are still in custody (It was false alarm that they have been released, a police official said…
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…
A Future Young MP with Mission in Somaliland
Barbara (HAN) October 27, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and Youth Initiatives. Omar Ali Meygag, told to the youth online forum, organized by Sahra Yar, “Standing up for women’s rights in Somaliland’ parliament 2025.” Daily Thoughts Are Just Thoughts:Thoughts Emerge From Consciousness “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” Geeska Afrika Online Editors…
