Category: Opinion

  • Somalia: The Canadians are everywhere

    Somalia: The Canadians are everywhere

    Mogadishu (HAN) July 30, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter, Toronto Star. As the diaspora return in record numbers, tension is growing. Sending money from abroad is one thing, coming back to Somalia is another. The tables start to fill inside the air-conditioned…

  • Ethiopia: what Could be Egypt's right to get its share of Nile water?

    Ethiopia: what Could be Egypt's right to get its share of Nile water?

    Khartoum (HAN) July 30, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by Abdel Latif el-Menawy. Mistakes begin when we only see what we want to see. Negative repercussions worsen when we insist on our point of view and refuse to look at issues from a different angle. Geeska Afrika Online Archives:…

  • Ethiopia: Azusa Pacific University withdrawn an honoring Hailemariam Desalegn

    Ethiopia: Azusa Pacific University withdrawn an honoring Hailemariam Desalegn

    Addis Ababa (HAN) July 24, 2014 – Opinion By AddisVoice, Admas: An American Azusa Pacific University has withdrawn an honoring Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. The Ethiopian Prime Minister faced a stinging humiliation as Azusa Pacific University (APU), whose motto is “God First”, has withdrawn an honor it had already bestowed on him. The university administration had…

  • Ethiopia: The Green Gold Drug of Ethiopia, Khat is under threat

    Ethiopia: The Green Gold Drug of Ethiopia, Khat is under threat

    Addis Ababa (HAN) July 16, 2014 – Ethiopia’s major revenue item news update:  The European ban  Challenges the Ethiopian green leafs call Khat export, While Ethiopian Government agencies and traders are lobbying to Export Rome and Romania to smuggle through European markets. the British ban – coming at a time of strained relations between the UK…

  • Somalia: Terror incident “validates“ to promote a stable and secure Africa

    Somalia: Terror incident “validates“ to promote a stable and secure Africa

    London (HAN) July 6, 2014. Part 2 – Energy and security research news edited by Dr.Abdulahi Mohamed:  In a new article by David Andrew Weinberg is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote: While the world panics over the conquests of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Saudi Arabia,…

  • Somalia: The Saudis had feared a dramatic shift in energy influence to Africa

    Somalia: The Saudis had feared a dramatic shift in energy influence to Africa

    London (HAN) July 6, 2014. Energy and security research news edited by Dr.Abdulahi Mohamed: Although the turmoil of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is good news for Saudi Arabia from an energy, economics, and external power perspective, it unfortunately spells bad news for Saudi-American relations towards the Horn of Africa new initiative energy policy,…

  • Eritrea: Humanitarian diplomatic letter to the President

    Eritrea: Humanitarian diplomatic letter to the President

    Geneva (HAN) July 1, 2014 – Humanitarian Press Release. On behalf of Eritrean Human Rights Concern, I am writing to update you on our Eritrean plights for your Administration’s efforts to address the urgent humanitarian situation in Eritrea, and to request that the Federal Somali  Parliament and your European Ambassadors to support the new tools…

  • Somalia: whether AMISOM Approach will Permanently Dismember Somalia

    Somalia: whether AMISOM Approach will Permanently Dismember Somalia

    Mogadishu (HAN) July 1, 2014. Geeska Afrika Onlines looks at the tactics and the Idea behind Al-Shabaab and AMISOM’s  Strategical differences; while, Puntland’s Vice president accuses Somaliland of being behind the recent events in Southern Somalia and Puntland, alleging “foreign meddling.” Let us read what Professor Abdi Ismail Samatar wrote about the current Issues:  Two…

  • Somalia: Inside Al-Shabaab’s Legions and their Endless War Against Somalis

    Somalia: Inside Al-Shabaab’s Legions and their Endless War Against Somalis

    Mogadishu (HAN) June 29, 2014 – The review of Thanassis Cambanis opinion and the Dr. Abdullahi Mohamad Aboubakar, is an Ideas columnist and blogs at Geeska Afrika Online facebook: The stunning sweep made by the Isis insurgents through eastern Syria and northern Iraq; as well as Al-Shabaab in North-Easern Kenyan borders, has rattled the region…

  • Somalia: Complex and Negative Web of the Aid Industry Machinery

    Somalia: Complex and Negative Web of the Aid Industry Machinery

    Djibouti (HAN) June 29, 2014. Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by: HE Abdi Hosh.  Somalia like some other South countries is gripped under a complex and negative web of the Aid Industry machinery: the White-Saviour Aid Industrial Complex (WSAIC). After a quarter century of managing the lives of the Somali…

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