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Eritrea: US-Africa Leaders Summit, Eritrean community agree on one thing
Washington (HAN) August 7, 2014 – Regional strategic & Diplomatic partnership News: Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki, was not invited US-Africa leaders summit, and that snub has become big topic among Washington’s Eritrean-American community. “It was abnormal that Africa accepts to go to this meeting while one of its very important members (Eritrea and Sudan) was not invited”,…
Somali: Life and Legacy of Saado Ali Warsame in America
Minnesota (HAN) August 6, 2014- Community Event and Public Diplomacy news. By. Jibril Afyare, Senior Software Engineer at IBM and Community Activist. Geeska Afrika Online Events Page Empowered by Global News: Please join us as the Somali Community in Minnesota led by Hiba Nuura & Cadar Kaahin will pay tribute and pray for our sister Hon.…
Ethiopia: Improvement should allay its critics
Addis Ababa (HAN) August 6, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page sent to Geeska Afrika Online Editorial by Tiborn Nagy, a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, lives in Lubbock. Nation’s economic growth has brought social progress. Regarding the Houston Chronicle editorial about Ethiopia, “Do Better” (Page B7, July 29), while…
Ethiopia: Secretary Kerry Remarks With IGAD Leaders on Regional Security
Washington (HAN) August 6, 2014 – Regional Defense and Security news. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on the situation in South Sudan with Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) leaders, including the Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, President of Djibouti Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, and the Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, at…
Ethiopia: So who is the real enemy of the Palestinian people?
Addis Ababa (HAN) August 6, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page sent to Geeska Afrika Online Editorial by Leo Vinovezky, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Israeli Embassy in Addis Ababa. The military operation in the Gaza Strip, launched by Israel in order to impact the infrastructure of Hamas,…
Ethiopia: Addis Ababa satellite towns will be 8.1 million
Addis Ababa (HAN) August 5, 2014 – Infrastructure and Development News, By William Davison, bloomberg. Ethiopia, Africa’s fastest-growing economy, is looking to its capital to help sustain an expansion that averaged more than 10 percent a year in the past decade. Planners predict the population of Addis Ababa and five satellite towns will more than…
Djibouti: The Somali American Community are Hosting Ismail Omar
Minnesota (HAN) August 5, 2014 – Community and Public Diplomacy Event for IGAD Countries. The Somali American Community of Mannisota Is Hosting this week, the president of Djibouti Ismail Omar Geele. There is so much the people of Somalia owe Djibouti and its people as you all remember in 2000 Djibouti organized the first all-inclusive…
Ethiopia: British activist Tsige facing death penalty will not be executed
Addis Ababa (HAN) August 5, 2014 – Public Diplomacy news. The British government summoned Ethiopian diplomats to raise its concerns about the arrest of a British national being held in Ethiopia who has been sentenced to death over his involvement with an opposition political group. “Mr Simmonds asked the chargé to urge his government to…
Eritrea will host the next Russian Heavy military Exercises on water
Asmara (HAN) August 4, 2014 – Defense and Security News update. In Eritrea, military, academic, business and media circles, there is breathless excitement about the rise of Russia and the US decline, they assume as its inevitable corollary. There is an announcement that Russia’s Defense Ministry will hold drills for reservists in all of the country’s…
Canadian Somali Appointed Chief of UN children’s fund UNICEF
New York (HAN) August 4, 2014- Humaniterian news. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Omar Abdi, a Canadian national born in Somalia, as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). A Somali Canadian Omar Abdi is currently serving as UNICEF’s Comptroller. Prior to that role, he served as…
