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Ethiopia: opposition Journalist leader charged with inciting violence
Nairobi (HAN) April 27, 2014, — International Rights groups are calling on Ethiopian Prime Minister to release bloggers and opposition journalists arrested in Ethiopia. Human Rights Watch called on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who visits Ethiopia on Tuesday, to urge Ethiopian officials to release the nine journalist. The group’s Leslie Lefkow…
From Libya to Lampedusa: Life in Italy for Somali and Eritrean Refugees
Nairobi (HAN) April 28, 2014 – Editorial Note from the Editor of Geeska Afrika Online. In LAMPEDUSA, Eritrean refugee man who was rescued on Friday said there were over 480 or 500 people at sea, making noises for rescue. “Please go help them,” said the Eritrean, after he was pulled out of the sea by the…
Kenya: How can you win a war on terror when yours is terrorism?
Nairobi (HAN) April 28, 2014 – Editorial Note from the Editor of Geeska Afrika Online. What we choose to emphasize in this complex region of IGAD will determine future generations impact of regional security partnership, safety and security. Where Horn of Africa regime leaders has behaved magnificently, this gives elements of peace the energy to…
Ethiopia: Falling Short Of The Current Government’s Forecast
Djibouti (HAN) April 28, 2014 . IGAD2020 Weekly Regional economic update. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn declared that the targeted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the nation growth has dropped down to 9.7 percent in the last budget year, falling short of the government’s forecast, which was 11 percent. In a nine-month report he presented to…
Kenya: Somalia diplomat’s arrest as an ‘agressive’ and unwanted move
Nairobi (HAN) April 27, 2014, The House speaker of Federal Somali parliment has strongly condemned the arrest of its Somali embassy consular to Kenya Siyad Mahmoud Shire who was held in a police detention for several hours on Friday. The Somali diplomat was snatched from his home in Nairobi, Kenya when heavily armed police officers…
Somalia: Lastest Weekly Security Updates
Nairobi (HAN) April 27, 2014, – In Southern Somalia, domestically much of the violence has been spread across the central and the South western regions of Southern Somalia. The Federal Somali government has been seeking ways to deal with Al-Shabaab militant cells returning to Mogadishu rgion. The city has morethan 2 million residents and too …
Somalia: Canadian Integraion TV with prominent Somali model
Toronto (HAN) April 27, 2014 – By. Mohamad Ahmed Ilkacase, a Somali-canadian Journalist, Official website of TV series Episodes Series – exclusive Somali videos, previews, photos, cast. Watch Season 8, hosted by Hodan Nalayeh, she was born in Somalia, as a young child, her Somali-Canadian family immigrated to Canada. The Toronto integration TV (Popular channel with…
Eritrea: Emirates Donation for Eritrean children in six provinces
Nairobi (HAN) April 26, 2014. The United Arab Emarites (UAE) Red Crescent Authority has distributed clothing to 5,000 Eritrean children in six Eritrean provinces as part of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Campaign to clothe one million deprived children to improve the lives of children. The Authority delegation, headed by Ali bin Shamil Al Kaabi,…
Kenya: Somali kenyans Available for Genocidal Imaginations
Nairobi (HAN) April 25, 2014, Story Opinion Contributed by Patrick Gathara – Speaking last week during the commemoration of two decades since the genocide in his country, Rwandan strongman, Paul Kagame, argued that the catastrophe had been decades in the making. “The most devastating legacy of European control of Rwanda was the transformation of social…
Sudan: United States will Renew Threat of Sanctions Against Militants
Khartoum (HAN) April 26, 2014 – By LARA JAKES (AP) . The United States Secretary of State John Kerry will renew his threat of sanctions against Sudan’s militants in a visit next week to South Sudan, where ethnic killings are ripping apart the 3-year-old nation and all but scuttling peace talks. John Kerry’s in South…
