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Kenya's deputy president rails against homosexuality
NAIROBI (HAN) May 4, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. Kenya’s deputy president, William Ruto, has told worshippers at a church service in Nairobi that homosexuality had no place in the east African nation, reports said Monday. Homophobia is on the rise across much of Africa and remains illegal in many countries, including…
Somalia: Al-Shabab's New Media Name "Ugus"
Djibouti (HAN) May 4, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. The Somali government has told media houses to stop referring to militant group al-Shabab by their name. They instead want the group to be called Ugus, an acronym for the Somali words meaning “the Group that Massacres the Somali People”. Al-Shabab responded by…
How Ethiopia managed to supply water to 48 million people
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 4, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. Today, we’re celebrating something special in Ethiopia – reaching the water Goal 7c of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). What does this mean? Put simply, it means 57 percent of the country’s population now is drinking water from an improved water supply…
Ethiopia: Owner Invests $1.7Bn in Awash Woldia/Hara Gebeya Railway Line Project
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 4, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC), the owner of the project, is investing $1.7bn in the project. The new line will be completed by December 2015.The new railway line will connect northern Ethiopia with central region. It will also link the northern and eastern…
Kenya: Kerry in Kenya to offer help against militants
Nairobi (HAN) May 3, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kenya on Sunday to offer help in countering Somali al Shabaab militants who have staged deadly attacks there and elsewhere in East Africa. Kerry will also address Kenya’s human rights in meetings with President Uhuru…
Ethiopians Jabore, Mengesha triumph at Broad Street Run
Djibouti (HAN) May 3, 2015 – Geeska Sports News. Tigist Jabore couldn’t have encountered a busier weekend. Or a more productive one. The 21-year-old woman from Ethiopia won two races in two days, and after capturing the Broad Street Run on Sunday, she had the obvious answer about being fatigued. “Of course I am tired,” she said…
Somalia: The New Somali Studies
Djibouti (HAN) May 3, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News.By SAFIA AIDID What would a decolonized Somali Studies look like? I Since #CadaanStudies was launched on Twitter, the tweet that has received the most circulation has been something that British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton wrote in his 1856 travelogue First Footsteps in East Africa:…
South Sudan seeks to generate non-oil revenues through economic diversification
JUBA (HAN) May 3, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. South Sudanese government said its economy needed urgent diversification to wean it from depending on oil in long term response to the economic crisis, urging its citizens and other stakeholders in the society, including businesses, to embrace farming in all their undertakings. The European…
Ethiopian Jews Protest in Tel Aviv Over Police Brutality and Racism
Tel Aviv (HAN) May 3, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. By: ISABEL KERSHNER. Uri Muallem, 30, had been drinking when he stepped out of a family gathering at a wedding hall in 2010 to relieve himself on the sidewalk. That was when his encounter with the police began. A slight man, barely…
Ban Ki-moon "South Sudan leaders failed people, warns of sanctions"
Djibouti (HAN) May 1, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News. South Sudan’s leaders have failed their people by putting their personal ambitions first and if they do not show a willingness to compromise in peace talks they have to face consequences such as sanctions, says United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In his latest…
