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  • Somalia: Traditional folk dancing breathes new life into Mogadishu

    Somalia: Traditional folk dancing breathes new life into Mogadishu

    Mogadishu (HAN) April 6, 2014 – For many years life in the Somali capital Mogadishu was one of restrictions. Music and dancing were banned under strict Sharia law imposed by the militant Islamist group al-Shabab. They controlled the Somali capital from 2009 until they were driven out 3 years ago. Now, people in Mogadishu are…

  • Ethiopia: Baidoa Streets Cleaning Exercises

    Ethiopia: Baidoa Streets Cleaning Exercises

    Mogadishu (HAN) April 6, 2014 – Residents of Baidoa came out in huge numbers with Ethiopian forces to participate in a clean-up exercise following days of demonstration that were sparked off by two rival political groups. In the last week, rival supporters of the 3-region federal state and the 6-region federal state burnt old tyres…

  • Ethiopia:  EU-Africa Security Summit, Sideline Debate on Security and Governance

    Ethiopia: EU-Africa Security Summit, Sideline Debate on Security and Governance

    Djibouti (HAN) April 5, 2014: – On the margins of the EU-AU Summit, a sideline Debate on Security, Governance and Conservation which was organized by Louis Michel, former commissioner of the EU for Development and Humanitarian Aid was held on Monday (March 31, 2013) in Brussels. President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, President Denis Sassou…

  • Ethiopia: Egypt has offered to co-fund the Renaissance Dam on one condition

    Ethiopia: Egypt has offered to co-fund the Renaissance Dam on one condition

    Djibouti (HAN) April 4, 2014: – HANAN FAYED -Egypt has offered to co-fund the Renaissance Dam on the condition that it co-administers or designs the dam, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign affairs Badr Abdel Atty told Al-Nahar TV Wednesday. Egypt also offered to “encourage Arab countries and funding organizations” to co-fund the dam, provided that…

  • Sudan: Qatari Sudan Strategic Aid Deal Will Irritate Egypt

    Sudan: Qatari Sudan Strategic Aid Deal Will Irritate Egypt

    Djibouti (HAN) April 4, 2014: -By Nigel Wilson, Sudan has announced that Qatar will deposit $1bn at its central bank as part of an aid package. Qatar’s emir held talks in Sudan on Wednesday at a time of strained ties with his country’s Gulf neighbors over its perceived support for the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood. Sudanese Finance Minister…

  • Ethiopian politician blames Egypt’s financial assistance to Al-Shabaab in Somalia

    Ethiopian politician blames Egypt’s financial assistance to Al-Shabaab in Somalia

    Djibouti (HAN) April 4, 2014: A Member of Ethiopia’s largest opposition party UDJ blamed Egypt’s financial assistance to Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia for spreading terrorism in the horn of Africa. According to MP Girma Seifu of the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party, American aid to Egypt is being diverted to finance terrorists in…

  • The United States warned human rights abuses in Somalia and South Sudan

    The United States warned human rights abuses in Somalia and South Sudan

    Djibouti (HAN) April 4, 2014: – The United States has warned it may impose economic sanctions on individuals causing unrest or human rights abuses in South Sudan. South Sudan’s minister of information says the United States is meddling in South Sudan’s internal affairs by trying to influence the outcome of ongoing peace negotiations. “In the…

  • Ethiopia: Diplomatic push to build the River Nile Dam

    Ethiopia: Diplomatic push to build the River Nile Dam

    Addis Ababa (HAN) April 4, 2014:- Diplomats and staff at the Ethiopian Embassy in London today pledged their monthly salary to buy bonds amounting to £68,250 (around 2,120,000 Birr), in connection with the 3rd anniversary of the launching  of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Following discussions on the progress made in the implementation of…

  • Somalia: The German Navy has released new video

    Somalia: The German Navy has released new video

    Mogadishu (HAN) April 3, 2014: The German Navy has released new video showing the 5 April 2010 hijacking of the German containership MV Taipan by pirates some 500 miles off the Somali coast. In the video, which was filmed by a hovering naval helicopter from the Dutch frigate HNLMS Tromp, you can see a pirate…

  • Somalia: Reasons Kenya forces not pulling out of Southern Somalia

    Somalia: Reasons Kenya forces not pulling out of Southern Somalia

    Mogadishu (HAN) April 3, 2014: Kenyan military, security and intelligence forces will not pull out of Southern Somalia, According to Raychelle Omamo, Defence Cabinet Secretary , statistics says that Kenyan military ranking worldwide put KDF as the sixth best in Africa and 46 globally; while Kenya came sixth after Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria and…

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