Category: Interview

  • Bobi Wine Vs. Uganda’s ‘Dictator’: It’s ‘Dangerous To Sit Down And Resign To Fate’

    Bobi Wine Vs. Uganda’s ‘Dictator’: It’s ‘Dangerous To Sit Down And Resign To Fate’

    Bobi Wine, Uganda’s pop singer-turned-politician, is one of the most vocal challengers of his country’s longtime president, Yoweri Museveni. Last summer, Wine was arrested and says he was beaten and tortured by presidential guards after clashes between opposition supporters and supporters of Uganda’s ruling party. “I’m supposed to be a dead man,” he told NPR in September of…

  • AFRICA: IF I WAS PRESIDENT

    AFRICA: IF I WAS PRESIDENT

    n 2010, two years after the election of Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States, Haitian singer, songwriter  and Grammy Award winner Wyclef Jean released the single If I was President pointing out his view on the problems that really affect people and that politicians should worry much more about. Wyclef Jean was born on…

  • Somalia: link Transactions to the Terrorist Attacks

    Somalia: link Transactions to the Terrorist Attacks

    Djibouti (HAN) January 28, 2019. Regional Financial Institutions and Stability. There is no limit to the amount a mobile money agent can transact in a day. Updated Opinion from Mr. Khalid Yusuf. When Mr Hassan Abdi Nur, a mobile money agent, was arraigned for the 14 Riverside Drive attack, it must have come as a…

  • Ethiopia: Why Tigray state president is resigning?

    Ethiopia: Why Tigray state president is resigning?

    Addis Ababa (HAN) January 7th, 2019. Regional Security and Governance issues, reported by WALTA. Tigray regional state president and the current Chairman of TPLF, Comrade Debretsion Gebremichael, has submitted his resignation and also reported by Walta. The WALTA source said that it is unclear if his resignation is accepted or not in Tigray or TPLF…

  • Somalia: Somali Government Expels UN envoy over criticism

    Somalia: Somali Government Expels UN envoy over criticism

    Nairobi (HAN) January 1st, 2019. Public diplomacy and International Security. The president says elements of the International community based in Halane has again reconfirmed its disdainful attitude to the sovereignty of independent states of Somalia. President Mohamaed Abdullahi Farmajo states that UNSOM leader has again reconfirmed its disdainful attitude to the sovereignty of independent states…

  • The Horn of African Youth  of the Year 2018 – Ibrahim Mulushewa

    The Horn of African Youth of the Year 2018 – Ibrahim Mulushewa

    Harar (HAN) January 2019. Ibrahim Mulushewa has become the first ever youth to become The Horn of African Man of the Year, an award which was organized recently by the Geeska Afrika Online (1985-2019) Daily & the Horn of Africa Newsline (HAN). Ibrahim participated many events of development and peace in the Horn Of Africa.…

  • Ethiopia: Old Dream of Greater Somalia

    Ethiopia: Old Dream of Greater Somalia

    Harar (HAN) December 29, 2018. Regional Security and Stability Initiatives. According to the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF), also known as Uguugumo, sent an official email to HAN and Geeska Africa Online office in Harar (ARDUF press release) regarding the ongoing conflict in the eastern part of Federal Ethiopia. The party sees it as…

  • Saudi King Salman orders Ibrahim Al-Assaf as new Foreign Minister

    Saudi King Salman orders Ibrahim Al-Assaf as new Foreign Minister

    Riyadh (HAN) December 28, 2018. Regional Diplomacy and International Security. The Saudi Arabian King HE Salman Ibn-Abdulaziz orders to his son to name Ibrahim Al-Assaf as new Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf, who was released from detention related to an anti-corruption purge in November, Saudi sources said. After he was seen attending a cabinet meeting earlier…

  • Abraha sounding Alarm about Civil War in Ethiopia

    Abraha sounding Alarm about Civil War in Ethiopia

    Djibouti (HAN) December 27, 2018: Regional Security and Defence Watch. According to the Broken and Ethiopia media, “Is civil war truly inevitable in Ethiopia?” Abraha Belay, who is based in Seattle, is a journalist by profession and owns ethiopiamedia an online Ethiopian news portal. Like some critical voices from Tigray region, he has been rejecting…

  • Somali women to Get Cancer Screenings in America

    Somali women to Get Cancer Screenings in America

    Minneapolis (HAN) December 27, 2018. Humanitarian Health and Community Issues. When Wali Dirie’s mother was in her 50s, her doctor advised her to start going in for regular mammograms. So she went.But when it came time to undress for the exam, she stopped. “She asked me my thoughts and my decisions, and I encouraged her,…

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