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Kenya: Hundreds Leave Kenyan University Fearing Extremist Attack.
ELDORET (HAN) October 31, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional food Security Initiatives News. Hundreds of students at Moi University in western Kenya are fleeing the school’s dorms, fearing a deadly extremist attack by some of their previous colleagues, a student leader said Friday. Students were seeking accommodation outside the campus in the town of Eldoret…
Why African polls have a method to their madness
Dar es Salaam (HAN) October 31, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. By Charles Onyango-Obbo. This past week, there were two elections in East Africa. There were the bigger and more headline-making presidential and parliamentary elections in Tanzania. And then there were the primary elections of Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement, ahead of the…
Ethiopia arrests ISIS-linked cell intending to announce Islamic emirate
Djibouti (HAN) October 31, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional food Security Initiatives News. by: Ahmed Shiwesh Ethiopian authorities have arrested a group of suspects belonging to the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS), who apparently sought to declare an ISIS-linked province in Ethiopia, an official told reporters on Wednesday. This is the first time Ethiopians…
Tony Blair asked me to 'help invade Zimbabwe', says Thabo Mbeki
London (HAN) November 27, 2013 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. South Africa’s former president claims that his country was asked to help Britain topple Robert Mugabe. 27 Nov 2013 Tony Blair’s Government asked South Africa to help Britain invade Zimbabwe and topple Robert Mugabe by force, Thabo Mbeki, the former president, has claimed. When Zimbabwe began…
Representative of the Swiss Government makes her remarks as the IGAD and IOM counterparts listen keenly
Djibouti (HAN) October 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional food Security Initiatives News. Member States of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development resolved today to redouble their efforts to combat trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants during the 6th Meeting of the Regional Consultative Process on Migration held in Djibouti. Making a statement on behalf of…
Djibouti: Regional consultative meeting to review the IGAD biodiversity policy draft
Djibouti (HAN) October 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional food Security Initiatives News. A two day regional consultative meeting to review the IGAD Biodiversity Policy draft was done yesterday morning officiated by H.E Mr. Mohamed Moussa Ibrahim, the Minister of Habitat, Urbanisation, and Environment of the Republic of Djibouti in the presence of the IGAD Executive…
Ethiopia Presents its best Practices in Energy Sector
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) October 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional food Security Initiatives News. In an event held at sidelines of the World Energy Council Executive summit, which is being held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia presented its best practices in energy sector on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at UNECA. Minister of Water, Irrigation and…
Ethiopia: Dr. Tedros opens the Ethio-India Business Forum
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) October 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional food Security Initiatives News.On October 28, 2015, Foreign Minister Dr. Tedros opened the Ethio-India Business Forum at the Sidelines of The Third India-Africa Forum Summit,during which he said Ethiopia and India enjoyed long-lasting relations, one that is historic. Despite such historic relationship, Dr. Tedros…
Somali Thinker to Deliver Media & Politics Lecture 2015
Nairobi (HAN) October 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional food Security Initiatives News. African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) announces the second annual lecture under the theme “Media and Politics in Africa”. The overarching purpose of the lecture series is to explore the relationship between media and politics in Africa amidst ever-changing circumstances — technological and…
Somalia: Neighbourhood Watch in Somalia to Fight Terrorists
MOGADISHU (HAN) October 29, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional food Security Initiatives News. Mogadishu City has offered to reward people who turn in Al Shabaab members making the neighbourhood watch programme more effective. Officials believe that it is only through the public that the security forces can win the fight against terrorism. Abdulhakim Sh Mohamed…
