Category: Opinion
Djibouti: Regional Challenges and Opportunities, "View from Saudi Arabia and Israel"
Djibouti (HAN) June 18, 2015 – Regional defense and Security News. Academic debate between Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Anwar Eshki of Saudi Arabia and Ambassador Dore Gold of Israel met to discuss opportunities and challenges in the Middle East. Their speeches focused on the danger Iran posed to their countries, and they revealed that they had…
Uganda: Museveni is Drawing the Battle lines
Kampala (HAN) June 17, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Safety and Security News – Museveni is making sure of electoral victory in 2016, but more and more rivals and defectors are chipping away at his support. Speaking on YouTube on 15 June (Watch it), John Patrick Amama Mbabazi declared his intention to secure the…
Somalia: Why Italy is Campaigning Against Somali Compact?
Mogadishu (HAN) June 16, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Safety and Security News . By Mohamud M. Uluso, “Somali Compact progress report”. Despite the crisis, there was some progress on key political milestones, according to Nichlas Kay. But the question is, Why Italy is campaigning against Somali Compact on State-building? Special Interest Groups: Special…
Uganda: AMISOM Leave Somali Women Alone "Don't Rape"
Kampala (HAN) June 16, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Safety and Security News – John Agaba. The Ugandan Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Katumba Wamala speaks to some of the UPDF soldiers during the send-off ceremony for Battle Group XVI to Somalia Peace Keeping Mission at Singo Training School in Nakaseke District on June…
Ethiopia To strengthen Africa’s support to IGAD Initiative
Addis Ababa (HAN) June 16, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Safety and Security News – Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn chaired a session to launch IGAD-Plus. IGAD-Plus is an initiative set up to give new impetus to the IGAD-led SouthSudan mediation. IGAD-Plus consists AU High-Level Ad-hoc Committee of Heads of State and Government comprising Algeria,…
Somalia: Strong Remarks by the President Hassan in Addressing the Nation
Mogadishu (HAN) June 15, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Safety and Security News – The president also spoke the political progress in the country and exuded confident that his Federal Government will deliver it is promises before its time expires. According to exclusive speech notes received by Geeska Afrika Online: Speaking to the media in…
Djibouti: The UN Envoy to Somalia Warned links to Extremists in Nearby Yemen
Djibouti (HAN) June 13, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. Ambassador Nicholas Kay the UN envoy to Somalia warned that Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia are expected to do everything they can to derail elections next year (2016 ) and urged military forces to prepare to respond to any sign the Islamist group is…
Somalia: Puntland Government "Tired of Conflict and Destruction"
Washington (HAN) June 13, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Puntland’s Government Regional Security view. Yusuf Hassan (A Somali-American journalist, is a political and media analyst on Somalia and Horn of Africa affairs. Yusuf formerly served as Puntland’s government adviser ) – A brighter future for Somalia requires a narrative of peace that restores social trust, reinforces…
Al-Shabaab implementing its threat to "take the war" to Kenya
Nairobi (HAN) June 13, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. Somalia’s militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab has entered a remote village in north-eastern Kenya, despite the fact that it is only about 15km (nine miles) from a military base, residents say. The dangerously porous border between Southern Somalia (Jubbaland zone) and Kenya has made…
Somali Diplomatic success in Iraq trumps a military victory
Baghdad (HAN) June 11, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. Iraqi Foreign Minister, Dr. Ibrahim Al Jaafari, received at his office Mrs. Khadija, newly-appointed Ambassador of Somalia in Baghdad, on occasion of assuming the post in Iraq. According to Geeska Afrika Online diplomatic sources, Foreign Minister, Dr. Ibrahim Al Ashaiqer Al Jaafari, received at…
