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Somali and Afghanistan Refugees killed in Macedonia
Djibouti (HAN) ) April 25, 2015 – Humanitarian Security News. At least 14 migrants from Somalia and Afghanistan were killed in central Macedonia when they were hit by an international passenger train, officials said on Friday. The tragedy is the latest loss of life involving migrants seeking a new life in Europe after around 750 people…
Kenya: China is Providing Over $120Million for Nation's Youth to Attain New Skills.
Nairobi (HAN) April 24, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Security New. China is providing Kenya over 120 million U.S. dollars in concessional loans to help the East African nation’s youth to attain new job skills. China has provided assistance to revamp Kenya’s National Youth Service (NYS), the country’s premier vocational training institute, under…
Somalia seeks to drive militants from southern valley bases
NAIROBI (HAN) April 24, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Security News. Somali and African forces aim to drive al Shabaab Islamist militants out of one of the last major tracts of territory in southern Somalia that the group still holds and which it uses to launch attacks, the Somali prime minister said on Thursday. Omar…
Ethiopian Nile Dam Study Warns on Safety
New York (HAN) April 24, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Security News- by William Davison Ethiopia and Egypt “urgently” need to agree on the coordinated operation of their two large dams in the Nile River basin to ensure water is shared fairly during periods of reduced flows, a group of international experts said. Ethiopia is…
Israel Paid Tesfay Kidane Thousands to return to Africa
London (HAN) April 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Security News An Eritrean refugee currently detained in Israel has described the moment that he realised one of the 30 migrants executed on a Libyan beach was his friend of more than seven years. Aman Beyene, 38, watched with horror as his close friend was…
NATO and the Republic of Djibouti consolidate their cooperation
Djibouti (HAN) April 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Security News. NATO and the Republic of Djibouti have enhanced their cooperation, by concluding on 22 April 2015 an agreement to establish a NATO liaison office in Djibouti in support of the Alliance’s counter piracy operation, Ocean Shield, in the Gulf of Aden. NATO Deputy…
Ethiopia: Demonstrations To Protest The Utmost Savagery Of ISIS
Addis Ababa (HAN) April 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Security News. Hundreds of thousands of residents of Addis Ababa marched to Meskel Square in an angry protest over the brutal killing of Ethiopians in the hands of ISIS in Libya and xenophobic mob in South Africa over the week. The protesters carried placards…
Somalia: Militants kill 14 in Car Bomb Attack on Restaurant
Mogadishu (HAN) April 21, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Maritime Security News. A suicide bomber from the Somali militant group al Shabaab on Tuesday rammed a car laden with explosives into a busy restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than a dozen others. The lunch-hour explosion…
UN mourns four staff killed in Somalia bomb attack
Mogadishu (HAN) April 21, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Security News. The UN children’s agency mourned Tuesday four staff members killed in what UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned as a “barbaric attack” in Somalia. Two of those killed in Monday’s bombing in the northeastern town of Garowe came from Kenya, the other two from…
Security Council Strongly Condemned The Heinous & Cowardly Crime.
Addis Ababa (HAN) April 21, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Maritime Security News. Security Council Press Statement on murder of over 30 Ethiopian Christians 20 April 2015, New York The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the heinous and cowardly apparent murder in Libya of over 30 Ethiopian Christians by an affiliate of the…
