Category: Opinion
Somalia: Voices for Peaceful Election
MOGADISHU (HAN) December 10.2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. The disputed electoral committee announced by Somali Federal government had started their work, even though there were serious complaints against some of the members. They are working and living in very expensive hotel paid with the public funds This move is…
Ethiopia: Post-TPLF Part I “Militarily Defeated”
by Worku Aberra. Now that the military operation against the TPLF’s rebellion has successfully concluded, Ethiopia must embark on a democratic order free from the vestiges of the TPLF. The first order of business in creating the new Ethiopia is outlawing the TPLF as a terrorist organization. The government has the legal, moral, and political obligation…
Ethiopia: “TPLF’s defeat is victory to humanity: NAMA
Rise and Fall of an Illegitimate Power. Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) has never been a legitimate entity in Ethiopia and the larger Horn of Africa. When it was imposed on the Ethiopian state in 1991, TPLF was a minority in every sense of the term. It played junior role in toppling the military Derg…
Ethiopia: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s First Interview to Western News Media
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Abiy: ‘All of My Intention and Action Is Aimed at Elevating Ethiopia’ By Salem Solomon, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed he gave his first interview to a Western news organization (VOA) in late May, when he spoke to the Voice of America’s Horn of Africa service reporter Eskinder Firew, in Addis…
Persistent Breaches of the Partnership Agreements
Persistent breaches of the partnership agreements between Somalia and Somaliland Background Somaliland Stability: SomalilandSun article “Somaliland: From the Boardroom to the Battlefield the Looming War with Somalia,” published March 27, 2016 In the past 25 years Somaliland has proven its commitment to peace, development, national security and most importantly taking an active role in stabilizing the…
Ethiopia: Ezra Meko Opinion “Hire Good English Reporters ETV”
Harar (HAN), December 6th, 2020. Disinformation on Social Media about the Ethiopian TV English Newsreel. Opinion & viewpoints note to the Office of the prime minister About the Ethiopian TV english program Listeners, by Ezra Meko: Please, please, please, hire competent reporters/journalists that ARE GOOD IN ENGLISH. It is shocking to listen to the female…
Somalia Crisis Viewpoint: Hirshabelle State Meltdown
Djibouti (HAN) December 6th, 2020. Crisis Viewpoint and Regional Security. Opinion by Mohamed Mohamud Adde. There are dark clouds of civil war hanging over Somalia once again, if the International Community does not act quickly and hold accountable those people who are working on Somali political melt down. Somali people can NOT afford and will…
The conflict in Ethiopia and TPLF’s ultra-nationalist ideology
The Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) is at the heart of an ongoing bloody conflict with the federal government of Ethiopia. The TPLF was established in the Tigray-majority region of Ethiopia in the 1970s as one of the many rebel groups fighting for freedom from Ethiopian imperial rule. The Tigray community, at that time, was…
Eritrea: Abey Ahmed “A True Beacon of Peace and Liberty”
Asmara (HAN) December 4th, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional security. During the EPRDF/TPLF rule, the Eritrean border dispute with Ethiopia was embedded within a set of regional and international strategic conflicts mainly linked further through proxy wars to facilitate to instability in Somalia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Djibouti and the Ethiopian ethnic groups of lowlanders (Somalis…
Somalia: Is it a Clandestine Pretext?
Political crises are in boiling point between Somalia and Kenya where the Somali government recalled its ambassador to Kenya, Mohamud Ahmed Nur ‘Tarzan’ for what it called consultation. It also asked his counterpart, ambassador Lucas Tumbo to leave Mogadishu. Somalia has accused Kenyan government for interference into the internal Affairs of Somalia. Kenya denied Somalia…
