Category: Opinion
Canadian Mine in Eritrea had been built Partly by Defacto Slaves
Djibouti (HAN) May 14, 2014. Regular Expert Analysis , Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine. The Horn of Africa country of Eritrea is a new gold mining zones with a number of exciting mining developments taking place. Some of these are occuring in remote, semi desert locations, presenting particular challenges to the mining companies and the…
Somalia: Why Michael Stock is In Mogadishu?
Mogadishu (HAN) May 12, 2014 – Security projects, business and investment Story, reported by HAN & Geeska Afrika Online. Despite the threats from Islamist militants, suicide targets, car bobs and special operations, the Somali capital Mogadishu is bursting back to life. To invest in Somalia today, you might have to take matters into your own…
Ethiopia: The lifetime risk of a mother dying during pregnancy
Addis Ababa (HAN) May 11, 2014 – Global Motherhood Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Opinion Page By Liya Kebede. I never considered my mother a gambler, but looking back to my earliest days in Ethiopia, I realize that the likelihood of my mother and me both dying during childbirth was alarmingly high. Geeska…
Sudan: South Sudan and US National Security
Khartoum (HAN) May 10, 2014. By Andrew Natsios: Why care about Sudan? Professor Andrew S. Natsios, Former US Special Envoy to the Sudan; Former Administrator, US Agency for International Development. The Africa Center for Strategic Studies and the Center for Complex Operations hosted a conference at the National Defense University entitled: “Sudan: Regional Implications of…
Somalia: State-building under Attack 'Unlawful military and diplomatic actions in Somalia'
Djibouti (HAN) May 9, 2014 – Regular Expert Analysis Contributors, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Opinion Paper by Mohamud M Uluso. Despite the troubling silence of African, Islamic, and Western leaders about the Kenya government’s brutal human rights violations against the Somali community in Kenya for their ethnic background and about its unlawful military and…
Somalia: Aid Agencies have warned in a joint campaign entitled "Risk of relapse"
Nairobi (HAN) May 9, 2014 , Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Opinion Page By, ANJLI PARRIN. Three years after a famine claimed 260,000 lives in Somalia, 2.9 million people there are still affected by a multifaceted but desperately underfunded humanitarian crisis, and communities are just “one shock away from disaster”, a host of…
Kenya: Counsel Ahmednasir Reminds Ruto is a 'Criminal'
Nairobi (HAN) May 7, 2014. A Kenyan expert, Mr. Gordon Teti: William Ruto blames the Judiciary for the state of insecurity in Kenya saying that those suspects released on bail by Kenyan Courts are responsible for the ongoing mass killings of innocent Kenyans. Ruto himself is a genocide suspect on trial at the ICC in…
Reporting Ethiopian Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and Media
Djibouti (HAN) May 7, 2014. Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Opinion Paper by Suzanne Franks. Author Suzanne Franks joins with the Pulitzer Center to focus on how journalists report on disasters around the globe. Part of her interest is in looking back: In 1984, the reporting of a ‘biblical famine’ in East Africa, combined…
Djibouti: Nations Pledges Billions to help Somalia Rebuild its Army
Djibouti (HAN) May 5, 2014. Opinion By Carolyn Presutti. In an interview with the VOA Somali service, Guelleh said $3 billion of Western pledges to help Somalia rebuild its army and the country have not been met. He said there is no getting around the fact that rebuilding the army is a necessity if the…
Somalia: Very small and street talk about clanism
Djibouti (HAN) May 4, 2014 – Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Geeska Afrika Online . Opinion series by Faisal Roble in hiss facebook Clips: If the Somalia President wanted to talk about the pitfalls of clan politics, he should have broadened it to liken it to the culture of corruption and the permanent and…
