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Ethiopia: Egypt and Sudan will later affect its ability to control the Nile waters
Khartoum (HAN) Jun 6 , 2014. In June 2013, Mohamed Morsiwarned that Egypt would not allow its share of the Nile to be diminished by “one drop” after Ethiopia began diverting the Blue Nile as part of a giant dam project in Ethiopian borders. (Photo: Members of the Ethiopian Orthodox church walk in the source of…
Somalia: Joint Statement on Strategic Stability to oust President Hassan
Mogadishu (HAN) June 6, 2014 – Read this article now, a Strategic Joint Statement from IGAD, EU, UN to oust President Hassan Sheikh, according to Dr. Mohamud Uluso, ”IGAD, UN, AND EU OUSTED PRESIDENT HASSAN.” On May 5th, more than 100 parliamentarians signed a letter calling President Hassan to resign immediately. Then, on May 27, 2014, the…
Sudan: The Iranian Red Sea missile drama
Cairo (HAN) June 5, 2014 – Fearing reprisals from Saudi Arabia and Israel, Khartoum turns down Tehran’s offer to build missile launch pads near Port Sudan. Therefore Just how close are relations between the Islamist regimes in Khartoum and Tehran? The headline from Iran’s Fars News Agency on 4 June – ‘Iran, Sudan Discuss Expansion…
Syrian Rebels are Recruiting Somali Youth in the West
Minneapolis (HAN) June 5, 2014 – Somalis from Minneapolis may fight in Syria, although “the FBI and law enforcement is doing a wonderful job,” community leaders re worried that the Somali community has been given few resources to tackle the kind of problems that lead to the radicalization of vulnerable Somali youth where unemployment is…
Ethiopia: Despite danger, more migrants trying to cross to Europe
Djibouti (HAN) June 5, 2014 — An Australian man has been jailed for nine years after he repeatedly punched an Eritrean migrant to the ground in a violent robbery in a train station alleyway, last October. The Australian attacker, Timothy Williams, from Illawarra, can be seen hitting the refugee so hard in his face that…
Somalia: Reasons NATO Piracy Project extended to 2016
Brussels (HAN) June 5, 2014 – The Somali Piracy in the Gulf of Aden (Somaliland and Puntland zones), off the Horn of Africa and in the Indian Ocean (Southern Somalia) is undermining international humanitarian efforts in Africa and the safety of one of the busiest and most important maritime routes in the world Therefore, NATO…
Ethiopia: Turkish security court issued an international arrest warrant
Mogadishu (HAN) June 5, 2014 – Ethiopian security police arrested more than twenty people accused of plotting attacks in the country and suspected of having links to Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-shabaab militants, Ethiopian security officials said today. Government spokesman Shimeles Kemal told Geeska Afrika Online security reporter that those detained had been trained by the militants…
Eritrea: President Isaias Afewerki's 2014 State of the Nation Address
Asmara (HAN) June 4, 2014. Executive Press Release, Presidential palace. The Eritrea’s president, Isaias Afewerki, celebrated his government’s achievements in his 23rd State of the Nation address. How did President Isaias is fare? We need your fraternal comments after you read the State of the Nation Speech. This was President Isaias Afewerki’s 23rd State of the…
Somalia: U.S. will appoint an ambassador in the Somali capital Mogadishu
Mogadishu (HAN) First By LARA JAKES (AP) National Security Writer, edited by Geeska Afrika Online security reporter in Mogadishu. There were hopeful signs of improvement in the security and economic conditions in the country, following years when Somalia had become “a synonym for chaos,” she said at the United States Institute of Peace think tank…
Somaliland: Memoirs of a Political Survivor in Hargeisa
Djibouti (HAN) June 5, 2014. Geeska Afrika Online Opinion page by Dr. Mohamud Tani. Last Man Standing- Mr Siilaanyo is a great political survivor , the art that he knows best , if not the only art he knows. He survived Afweine . He survived SNM . He survived Tuur , Egal and Rayale. He survived…
