Category: Interview
Ethiopia: Celebrating Graetest ever Ethiopian Muscian and Artist
Addis Ababa (HAN) July 25, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Music Initiative News – Mahamoud Ahmed: 50th year anniversary of his musical careers at Sheraton Addis Hotel. Mahmoud Ahmed is an Ethiopian singer of Gurage ancestry. Mahamoud Ahmed gained great popularity in Ethiopia in the 1970s and among the Ethiopian. greatest ever Ethiopian Musician…
Somalia: Cell mobile Networks interfering with IGAD networks
Nairobi (HAN) July 18, 2015 – Financial Investment and Real-time regional security updates. BY GEORGE MURAGE. Kenya is concerned with mobile operators in Somalia over network interference in border towns along the Kenya’s border with Somalia Somalia mobile operators have been accused of interfering with Kenya’s mobile network thereby posing security threats, especially in border towns. Information CS Fred…
Ethiopia: Security has “radically devolved” power to local authorities
Addis Ababa (HAN) July 9, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security Initiative News – Kenya has a security problem, Could Kenya Learn From Ethiopia’s Anti-terror Strategy? Review of Gabe Joselow (VOA), republished by HAN. Fighters from the militant group al-Shabaab, driven from their strongholds across Somalia, have claimed responsibility for gruesome attacks targeting non-Muslims…
Ethiopia: Zenawi Vision "the glass is more than half full"
Addis Ababa (HAN) July 7, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News – 2015 reflections of Prime Minister Meles credits for Ethiopia’s success. Read SHAWN HOULIHAN’s Interview with prime minister Meles Zenawi. In the following interview, Prime Minister Meles credits Ethiopia’s success to its federal, democratic system, which he says “accommodates the ethnic and…
Strong Diplomatic Ties between the United States and Ethiopia
Addis Ababa (HAN) July 5, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News – U.S. Ambassador Patricia M. Haslach, to Ethiopia and Ambassador Reuben Brigety, U.S. Ambassador to the African Union and Permanent Representative of the United States to UNECA, hosted a reception to celebrate the 239th anniversary of American Independence. Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros…
Kenya: Sarah Obama Honored at UN Women’s Day
Nairobi (HAN) July 5, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Humanitarian Weekly updates – The only surviving grandparent of President Barack Obama, 94-year-old Mama Sarah Obama, as she prefers to be called, is visiting the United States, in part to raise money to build a $12 million educational and medical center in her community of Kogelo, Kenya. Nairobi…
Somaliland: Joint Opposition Parties Press and Diplomatic Briefing
Hargeisa (HAN) June 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. The Two major Somaliland opposition parties (UCID and Wadani parties) have accused the ruling party “Kulmiye” government of violating a recent deal of holding election on July 27th, 2015 and unilaterally trying to postpone Somaliland elections, without a joint consultations with people and other…
Somalia: Footage of Italian Army Secret Operations
Nairobi (HAN) June 23, 2015 – Regional Security strategy News. The leak Intelligence news sources has already caused headaches for the Italian government operation in Southern Somalia. HAN & Geeska Afrika Online (1985-2015), the oldest free independent Free Press in the region, brings together top journalists from across the Horn of Africa. Including Ethiopia,…
Djibouti: Regional Challenges and Opportunities, "View from Saudi Arabia and Israel"
Djibouti (HAN) June 18, 2015 – Regional defense and Security News. Academic debate between Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Anwar Eshki of Saudi Arabia and Ambassador Dore Gold of Israel met to discuss opportunities and challenges in the Middle East. Their speeches focused on the danger Iran posed to their countries, and they revealed that they had…
Uganda: Museveni is Drawing the Battle lines
Kampala (HAN) June 17, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Safety and Security News – Museveni is making sure of electoral victory in 2016, but more and more rivals and defectors are chipping away at his support. Speaking on YouTube on 15 June (Watch it), John Patrick Amama Mbabazi declared his intention to secure the…
