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The Future Somaliland Oil in Somalia: Adding fuel to the flames?
Mogadishu (HAN) June 7, 2014. Regional security and Energy intel update. As the latest ‘frontier region’ of hydrocarbon exploration and production in East Africa, Somalia remains not only one of the most promising, but also most challenging potential oil exporting countries. Somalia boasts a host of challenges, including political volatility, institutional fragility, physical insecurity, and…
Ethiopia: Energy Becomes a catalyst for Regional Integration
Adis Ababa (HAN) June 7, 2014 – The new strategy Assessing Regional Integration in the Horn of Africa, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn opened the US-Africa Energy Ministerial in Addis Ababa. Under the theme of “Catalyzing Sustainable Energy Growth in Africa, the Ministerial is focused on issues connected with the identification of strategies, technologies and practices…
Somalia Joined 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
Mogadishu (HAN) June 7, 2014 . China this week witness a grand gathering of delegates from Arab states and the Arab League for the sixth Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab Cooperation Forum as well as celebration for the 10th anniversary of the Forum. This will be a major diplomatic move of the Chinese government geared…
Somalia: Joint Statement on Strategic Stability to oust President Hassan
Mogadishu (HAN) June 6, 2014 – Read this article now, a Strategic Joint Statement from IGAD, EU, UN to oust President Hassan Sheikh, according to Dr. Mohamud Uluso, ”IGAD, UN, AND EU OUSTED PRESIDENT HASSAN.” On May 5th, more than 100 parliamentarians signed a letter calling President Hassan to resign immediately. Then, on May 27, 2014, the…
Sudan: The Iranian Red Sea missile drama
Cairo (HAN) June 5, 2014 – Fearing reprisals from Saudi Arabia and Israel, Khartoum turns down Tehran’s offer to build missile launch pads near Port Sudan. Therefore Just how close are relations between the Islamist regimes in Khartoum and Tehran? The headline from Iran’s Fars News Agency on 4 June – ‘Iran, Sudan Discuss Expansion…
Ethiopia: A good Diplomatic News with Egypt has started
Djibouti (HAN) June 5, 2014. Egyption minister of electricity and renewable energy Ahmed Shaker flew to Addis Ababa last Sunday to participate in the US-Africa Energy Conference, aimed at developing sustainable energy projects on the continent Egypt’s minister of electricity and renewable energy, Mohamed Shaker, headed to Ethiopia last Sunday to participate in the US-Africa…
Syrian Rebels are Recruiting Somali Youth in the West
Minneapolis (HAN) June 5, 2014 – Somalis from Minneapolis may fight in Syria, although “the FBI and law enforcement is doing a wonderful job,” community leaders re worried that the Somali community has been given few resources to tackle the kind of problems that lead to the radicalization of vulnerable Somali youth where unemployment is…
Ethiopia: Despite danger, more migrants trying to cross to Europe
Djibouti (HAN) June 5, 2014 — An Australian man has been jailed for nine years after he repeatedly punched an Eritrean migrant to the ground in a violent robbery in a train station alleyway, last October. The Australian attacker, Timothy Williams, from Illawarra, can be seen hitting the refugee so hard in his face that…
Somalia: Reasons NATO Piracy Project extended to 2016
Brussels (HAN) June 5, 2014 – The Somali Piracy in the Gulf of Aden (Somaliland and Puntland zones), off the Horn of Africa and in the Indian Ocean (Southern Somalia) is undermining international humanitarian efforts in Africa and the safety of one of the busiest and most important maritime routes in the world Therefore, NATO…
Ethiopia: Turkish security court issued an international arrest warrant
Mogadishu (HAN) June 5, 2014 – Ethiopian security police arrested more than twenty people accused of plotting attacks in the country and suspected of having links to Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-shabaab militants, Ethiopian security officials said today. Government spokesman Shimeles Kemal told Geeska Afrika Online security reporter that those detained had been trained by the militants…
