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  • SOMALIA: Above-ground risks blunt its E&P licensing prospects?

    Nairobi (HAN)  February 26. 2024. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. By: Ida Hockerfelt. Amid higher global oil prices and a sharpening focus on new oil and gas supply sources to offset dependence on Russia, East African frontier Somalia has a renewed opportunity to attract foreign investors to its upstream hydrocarbon…

  • Russia: Agreement waving the debt owed by Somalia

    Russia: Agreement waving the debt owed by Somalia

    Mogadishu (HAN) Febuary 27th, 2024 – Regional Financial security initiatives – The Russian Federation led by President Putin,  off the debts of Somalia’s current government worth more than $684 million. Somalia’s Finance Minister, Bihi Iman Egeh, and Russian Deputy Finance Minister, Timur Igorevich Maksimov, have jointly inked an agreement waving the debt owed by Somalia…

  • Ethiopia: OLF Slams AU Characterization of Military Conflict in Oromia

    Ethiopia: OLF Slams AU Characterization of Military Conflict in Oromia

    DEGEHABUR (HAN) August 10, 2022. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. The opposition party, Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), has criticized the African Union’s (AU) characterization of the militarized conflict in Oromia regional state as “ethnic violence.” The OLF was referring to a recent “Brief Note” by the AU after its High…

  • Somalia & Uganda hold first ever business summit together

    Somalia & Uganda hold first ever business summit together

    The business communities of Somali and Uganda have held first ever business summit as they explored potential trade opportunities. In a two day event which started today in Kampala, corporates and the business group from the region showcased their products and services with intention to attract investors, partners and markets. Somalia’s newly elected president Hassan…

  • Russia’s Latest Military Aid To Mali Confirms Its Regional Anti-Terrorist Commitment

    Russia’s Latest Military Aid To Mali Confirms Its Regional Anti-Terrorist Commitment

    DEGEHABUR (HAN) August 10, 2022. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY: Andrew Korybko. Instead of fleeing in the face of foreign-backed Al Qaeda-connected terrorists recently declaring war on it in Mali, Russia proved that it’s ready to double down by doing its utmost to ensure that its regional ally can…

  • KENYA: Presidential Election is Important

    KENYA: Presidential Election is Important

    NAIROBI (HAN) August 8, 2022. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Kenyans are voting Tuesday to choose a successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta after a decade in power. The race is close and could go to a runoff for the first time. One top candidate is Raila Odinga, an opposition leader in…

  • SOMALIA: Will Al Shabaab Become America’s Next Proxy In Its Hybrid War Of Terror On Ethiopia?

    SOMALIA: Will Al Shabaab Become America’s Next Proxy In Its Hybrid War Of Terror On Ethiopia?

    DEGEHABUR (HAN) August 8, 2022. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY: Andrew Korybko. The pieces are in place for the US to employ Al Shabaab as proxies for continuing its Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia if American strategists decide to do so following the failure of their TPLF puppets…

  • Mali Reminded Macron That France Has Lost Its Hegemony Over West Africa

    Mali Reminded Macron That France Has Lost Its Hegemony Over West Africa

    MOSCOW (HAN) August 8, 2022. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY: Andrew Korybko. By responding to his insults in the confident way that they just did, Mali’s military-led transitional government reminded Macron that France has lost its hegemony over West Africa even though it’s expected that Paris will continue pushing…

  • ETHIOPIA: Triple Alliance Shene, TPLF & Al Shabab The Rise, Spread, & Fall

    ETHIOPIA: Triple Alliance Shene, TPLF & Al Shabab The Rise, Spread, & Fall

    DEGEHABUR (HAN) August 8, 2022. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. National Security Advisor of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ambassador Redwan Hussien confirmed triple alliance between Shene, TPLF and Al Shabab in recently attempted incursion in border areas. Ambassador Redwan stated on Monday that members of the TPLF and Shene terrorist…

  • Ethiopia: Russia’s Renewed Interests in the Horn of Africa: Interview

    Ethiopia: Russia’s Renewed Interests in the Horn of Africa: Interview

    DEGEHABUR (HAN) August 2, 2022. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. This is an exclusive interview with Andrew Korybko. Andrew is a Moscow-based American political analyst specializing in the relationship between the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China’s Belt & Road Initiative, Russia’s geopolitical balancing act, and Hybrid Warfare. 1. Russian FM Lavrov…

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