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Sudan: The First Turkey Agricultural Agreement Deal Signed
Djibouti (HAN) May 1, 2014. According to the agricultural deal agreed in Sudan, the Turkish General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises (TIGEM) and Turkish companies can invest directly in Sudan, engage in partnerships with local partners or fund agro-processing and food production projects. Sudan has very large agricultural land and the rainwater is enough for irrigation…
Somalia: UN Hopes Amisom Strategy Will Weaken Al-shabaab Threats
Djibouti (HAN) May 1st, 2014. According to security correspondence in Mogadishu, who monitors intelligence sources of Southern Somalia, confidence has emerged to invest and do business in Somalia . The report released in New York, the United Nation’s Special Representative for Somalia, Nicolas Kay also supported those assessments. Despite political turmoil and the threat…
Eritrea: The Role of Eritrean Diplomat in South Sudan Crisis
Djibouti (HAN) April 30, 2014. Haile Menkerios, is a former Eritrean diplomat and is Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Sudan and South Sudan, he replaced the former Somali envoy The Assistant to Sudan’s President and head of the government delegation for negotiations on the two areas, Prof. Ibrahim Ghandour, met…
The Reasons Sudan Praised Ethiopia's Strategic Nile project
Khartoum (HAN) April 30, 2014 According to the World Bulletin, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday praised a series mega projects being implemented in Ethiopia, saying it would pave the way for “the new Ethiopia.” Addressing Intellectuals’ Forum on Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in the lakeside town of Bahir Dar, 578km northwest of Addis…
Ethiopia: American Daily Magazine Slate join Global Voice to Release Journalist
Djibouti (HAN) April 30, 2014. According to chief political correspondent, Slate.com (Slate is an American daily magazine on the Web) monitors political prisoners in Ethiopia. The report released in Washington by the Global Voices Advocacy’s Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in digital rights around the world. This week’s…
Eritrea: Canadian Matthew McClearn Attacks Eritrea Whitewashes Slavery
Djibouti (HAN) April 30, 2014 – Story Opinion by Sophia Tesfamariam. This is an expanded version of the story that appeared in the issue of Canadian Business magazine. When an acquaintance at the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry sent me an advance copy of the article, “The Slaves of Eritrea”, written by Matthew McClearn for the Canadian…
Ethiopia: Egyptian military satellite Tracks the Construction of Hydroelectric Dam
Djibouti (HAN) April 30, 2014. The Egyptian military satellite will track the construction of an Ethiopian hydroelectric dam over which officials in Cairo and Addis Ababa have been locked in a standoff over fears that the project will hinder Egypt’s access to the Nile’s water. Egysat will monitor Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam by capturing high…
Ethiopia: Geographically Transferring Ethiopian Waters to GCC countries
Djibouti (HAN) April 30, 2014. According to middle east monitor, the Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome met this week with Rashad Mustafa Shawa, chairperson of the Swiss water company Mai Resources International, to discuss the mechanisms of exporting his country’s Nile water resources to Kuwait. The Ethiopian ENA reported that Kuwait wants to import 66 million…
Africa: Story Reflects Somali’s Family Disintegration
Nairobi (HAN) April 29, 2014. The Opinion of Power & Influence page of Geeska Afrika Online by Mohamed Olad Hassan. The story of a Somali-American teen stowaway who survived a freezing 5 1/2-hour flight from California to Hawaii while hidden in the wheel well of a jetliner has made news since shortly after his discovery April 20,…
Somalia: Somalia's trajectory Progress or Peril in Somalia?
Nairobi (HAN) April 28, 2014. Weekly Somalia Security Updates. UNSC envoy in Somalia reaffirms world body’s strong resolve to stay the course in Somalia Special Representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) Nicholas Kay. The top United Nations envoy in Somalia called on the country’s international partners (EU, AU, Arab League and…
