Category: Opinion
Ethiopia: Consequences Of Ethiopia’s law Enforcement Operation Will Be Acute
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 24. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Opinion BY: By Andrew Korybko American political analyst. The most intense phase of Ethiopia’s several-week-long law enforcement operation appears to be drawing to a close after the country’s national defense forces gave an ultimatum to Tigrayan rebels in the…
Ethiopia: Congratulations to Thomas-Greenfield the New U.N. Ambassador
Linda Thomas-Greenfield For U.N. Ambassador Geeska Afrika Online Message on behalf of the Horn of African People: Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and the regional peacekeeping forces, we all wishing you lots of success and happiness for your new appointment. Welcome back to the region again. Your appointment signals the return of the United States diplomatic…
Sudan: Comrade Debretsion, the man at the heart of the Tigray conflict
Khartoum (HAN) NOvember 23rd. 2020. IGAD2020 Regional Security and Defense Watch. A former Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) guerrilla fighter who used to jam the communication network of Ethiopian troops, Debretsion Gebremichael is now leading the fight against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government for control of the northern Tigray region. I told him Mr Abiy:…
Roundtable Meeting Led by UAE on Tolerance In Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) August 15th, 2019. Regional Religious Cooperation and Tolerance initiatives. The UAE Embassy in Addis Ababa hosted a roundtable meeting on tolerance, as part of its activities for the Year of Tolerance 2019. The meeting was attended by Suood Ibrahim Alamash, Acting Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy, Cardinal Burhan Yossus Surafil, Archbishop of the Catholic Church, Father Samuel, Chairman…
Ethiopia: UAE Consider Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence
Addis Ababa (HAN) November 9th. 2020. A Regional Security Cooperation Initiatives. According to the Ethiopian news agency, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Ethiopia are considering the possibility of cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the UAE Embassy in Ethiopia. In a press release issued on November 9th, 2020, the embassy stated that…
Ethiopia: Negotiating With the Devil, Debretsion Gebremichael
Opinion by: Alemayehu G. Mariam. This commentary is from my July 2, 2017 commentary “The Zero-Sum Negotiation Games of the TPLF”. Negotiating with the T-TPLF? Recently, the Voice of America (Amharic) reported “16 Ethiopian opposition political parties agreed to discuss the anti-terrorism and other proclamations and 13 other agenda points including communications, press and charities and civic organizations”…
Eritrea: Israel’s Comeback in the Horn of Africa
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 18. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. By Corrado Cok. In 2016, Benjamin Netanyahu was the first Israeli prime minister to visit Africa in 30 years. The visit was consistent with his announced intent to rebuild Israel’s ties with the continent, especially East Africa, where his tour took…
Ethiopia: The Claim of Mediation in Uganda is Not True
Addis Ababa (HAN) November 17, 2020. Regional Security. Regional IGAD leaders push for mediation in Ethiopia as conflict escalates, while the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has so far resisted pressure for talks, and said “it is an Internal issues.” The Ethiopian Deputy Prime minister said, ‘The biggest threat’: East Africa struggles to fight locust…
Russia’s Red Sea Base In Sudan Is A Recalibration Of Its Intra-Ummah Balancing Act
BY: Andrew Korybko. Russia’s draft deal to open up a Red Sea naval base in Sudan amounts to a strategic recalibration of its careful “balancing” act between the GCC and Turkey after moving more closely to the latter following the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War, which in turn shows how important Moscow regards its “Ummah…
Ethiopia: Hailemariam and The UAE Drones, “Crimes Against the Prophet”
Addis Ababa (HAN) November 16, 2020. Public Diplomacy and International Security for Horn of African Stability research made the Editor of Geeska Afrika Online. For defense purpose, armed drones have become an increasingly common sight in the skies around the Middle East in recent years, notably in the war zones of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia,…
