Category: Opinion
Somalia Impact: The Pentagon’s Slush fund
Djibouti (HAN) 31 October 2020. Opinion and Public diplomacy observations: The U.S. Army’s fiscal 2021 wish list, also known as an unfunded requirements list, sent to Congress amounts to nearly $5 billion more than the service placed on its list last fiscal year, and it would give its multi-domain units in Europe and the Indo-Pacific…
Why Eritrea Shifts Course on Egypt?
Khartoum (HAN) October 16, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Energy Initiatives updates. Opinion Article “Eritrea shifts course on Egypt-Ethiopia dispute over Nile dam” By. Ayah Aman is a senior journalist based in Cairo, Egypt. She works for Al-Shorouk daily newspaper. The visit of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki to the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam…
Eritrea: Eritrean Volunteers Come Forward to Offer Support Armenia
Asmara (HAN) 30th October, 2020. Regional Security updates. Eritreans condemned the humanitarian issues and shows it to assist efforts to ease tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but it fell short of expressing its full support for the Armenian just cause about the so called Artsakh statehood and failed to express explicit…
French Embassy Tells Citizens in Djibouti to stay on High Alert
Djibouti (HAN) October, 28, 2020. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security Alerts. French Embassy warned its citizens living or travelling in several IGAD countries, such as Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea and Somaliland to take extra security precautions as anger surged over the illegal religious cartoons published by the French paper in Paris to insult Prophet…
Somalia president visited Asmara, Denied Planned Meeting with Uhuru
Nairobi (HAN) October 27, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Security updates. Somalia has denied reports of a planned meeting in Nairobi between President Uhuru and his Somalia counterpart Farmajo. The Somalia president visited Asmara this month and there were reports in the Kenya and Eritrean free press that Farmajo would meet Uhuru and the Ugandan…
Somalia: Security Experts Blindsided by Trump Assertion of US troops Pullout
Mogadishu (HAN) October 27, 2020. Regional Security and Stability Initiatives. Senior National and Regional Security officials blindsided by President Donald Trump’s assertion and announcement of US troop withdrawal from Somalia. The Trump administration has fallen prey to the pitfalls of ending Al-Shabaab killings in Somalia and kenya. Last week, Somali National Army (SNA) spokesman Major…
A Future Young MP with Mission in Somaliland
Barbara (HAN) October 27, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and Youth Initiatives. Omar Ali Meygag, told to the youth online forum, organized by Sahra Yar, “Standing up for women’s rights in Somaliland’ parliament 2025.” Daily Thoughts Are Just Thoughts:Thoughts Emerge From Consciousness “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” Geeska Afrika Online Editors…
Somalia: International Human Rights for Independent Journalist and Writers
Mogadishu (HAN) October 22, 2020 – Public Diplomacy and International Human Rights for Independent Journalist and Writers. Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) jointly welcome the release of Radio Kulmiye journalist, Abdullahi Kulmiye Addow who was arbitrary detained and held incommunicado since Saturday night 17 October 2020, by the National Intelligence and Security…
Ethiopia: The Regional Upheavals Caused by Chinese Investments
Djibouti (HAN) October 25, 2020 – Regional Investment projects and financial initiatives. Why Hydropower Dam in Ethiopia Worries the triangle countries of Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt and angered President Trump of United States of America?Rackety trucks rush across Sudan’s border with its backwater neighbor of Ethiopian tribes, stirring up clouds of dust and drowning the tweets of tropical…
Editor’s take: UN Promise to Save Generations from the Scourge of War
New York (HAN) The Week that was September_October 2020. ReliefWeb (UN GA) Networked Multilateralism Crucial for Tackling Climate Change, Growing Poverty, COVID-19 Outbreak, Speakers Stress in Day-Long Debate. Editor’s take (©UN Photo/Rick Bajornas. Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Security Council ministerial-level open debate on conflict prevention and sustaining peace). In a high-level meeting to commemorate…
