Category: Opinion

  • Ethiopia: Why Israeli delegation were Expelled from 23rd AU Summit?

    Ethiopia: Why Israeli delegation were Expelled from 23rd AU Summit?

    Addis Ababa (HAN) June 27, 2014. Regional Africa security and partnership update:  by. Ofer Petersburg, the opening ceremony for the 23rd African Union Summit in Malabo was to begin Thursday with a declaration of support for the three kidnapped Israeli teens by a number of participants, until bad blood brought tensions to a boil. Scheduled…

  • Somalia: Khat ban poses a challenge to Britain's ruminating multiculturalists

    Somalia: Khat ban poses a challenge to Britain's ruminating multiculturalists

    London (HAN) June 25, 2014. Updated Social Issues.  Geeska Afrika Online Editorial.  The Home Office distributed Information leaflet about the classification of Khat as a Class C drug. Khat will become a controlled Class C drug on 24 June 2014. These factsheets provide straightforward information on the reasons for the Khat ban: penalties for use; where…

  • Somalia: Why Puntland in peace and Mogadishu in crises?

    Somalia: Why Puntland in peace and Mogadishu in crises?

    Bosaso (HAN) June 22, 2014. Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by: Dr.Ali Sheikh. The Somalis, as part of their tradition, are more often than not, attached to historical events so as to make ruling or find a solution to any standing problems. In that regard, the history of war and…

  • Somalia: Why Somali diplomats should learn diplomatic tactics?

    Somalia: Why Somali diplomats should learn diplomatic tactics?

    Kigali (HAN) June 20, 2014 – Somali style diplomacy in Rwanda: Somalia Ambassador to Rwanda has expressed his love of President Paul Kagame saying “I wish he was Somalia’s President.” Abdullahi Sheikh Maxamed, speaks more of Kagame than the country and the President he represents. this statement is Un-diplomatic and against diplomatic protocols. According to…

  • Ethiopia: Does Canada has a sensible foreign policy in Africa?

    Ethiopia: Does Canada has a sensible foreign policy in Africa?

    Addis Ababa  (HAN) June 20, 2014 – Sharing the Debate with Afro-Canadian Diaspora in Africa and the World through the Geeska Afrika Online Magazine. Let us hope that it will bring together all those who see the mutual interests of African states and Canada and who seek to build strong and lasting partnerships based on those…

  • Kenya: A white man with "fluent British English" led Al-Shabaab commandos

    Kenya: A white man with "fluent British English" led Al-Shabaab commandos

    Nairobi (HAN) 18 June, 2014 – Read this opinion article now by Geeska Afrika Online, with Mike Pflanz (The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs). A Kenyan Associates of Samantha Lewthwaite, the British Muslim convert and widow of a July 7 bomber, who Kenya is seeking in connection to terror charge related issues, were known to Kenya…

  • Somalia: Al-shabaab still poses serious threat to the region

    Somalia: Al-shabaab still poses serious threat to the region

    Nairobi (HAN) June 18, 2014 – Al-Shabaab’s attack on Kenya over the past two nights, in which more than 60 were killed, shows the group still poses serious threat to the region’s stability, writes Jamal Osman of channel4, Who should govern Somalia: Somalis or the UN?.   Last week the UN Special Representative for Somalia, Nicholas Kay spoke…

  • Somalia: Al Shabaab imposing clothing restrictions

    Somalia: Al Shabaab imposing clothing restrictions

    Mogadishu (HAN) June 14, 2014- Geeska Afrika Online. by FRANCES MARTEL. Islamist group al-Shabaab, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, has begun imposing clothing restrictions on women en masse, arresting as many as one hundred women this week for not complying with its fundamentalist dress code. The BBC reports that al-Shabaab “rounded up…

  • Ethiopia: Police State Silencing Opponents

    Ethiopia: Police State Silencing Opponents

    Rome (HAN) June 12, 2014 – Opinion By, Paul O’Keeffe is a Doctoral Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome.  Detention under spurious charges in Ethiopia is nothing new. With the second highest rate of imprisoned journalists in Africa and arbitrary detention for anyone who openly objects to the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regime’s…

  • Djibouti: Khat drug plant misuse has a serious impact on society

    Djibouti: Khat drug plant misuse has a serious impact on society

    London (HAN) June 9, 2014 – The Geeska Afrika Online Group (IGAD2020 Regional Watch) can meet the movers and shakers of the region, the ones who make headlines in Africa and the Middle East. Today, Abukar Awale, lead anti Khat campaigner. by, Jaylani Abdalla,   Khat (Qat) is a mildly narcotic drug plant that has been chewed…

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