Category: Opinion
Sudan: TPLF Missiles A Threat to Millions of Ethiopians
Khartoum (HAN) November 16, 2020. Public Diplomacy and regional security initiatives. The Ethiopia’s new civil war in the northern front between the federal troops and TPLF rebels in Tigray region, has changed the norms of war in the region. The russian missiles attacks on Amhara airports in northern Ethiopia and Asmara Airport of Eritrea, are …
Somalia: The Revival of National Election Initiatives
Mogadishu (HAN) November 16, 2020. Public Diplomacy and regional election initiatives. A national Somali election initiatives requires a coordinated national plan, politicos, and pollsters. Somalia also needs top Somali loyalist with common interest for the nation. With high quality visioneers to communicate effectively and increase public diplomacy calls to coordinate federal member states, and election…
Ethiopia and Eritrea Have a Common Enemy
Asmara (HAN) July 13, 2018. Regional Security and Stability, Opinion By. Bronwyn Bruton is the deputy director of the Atlantic Council Africa Center in Washington, D.C. Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, made headlines across the world with his surprise move last month to resolve his country’s two-decade-long fight with Eritrea. The nation of Eritrea…
Ethiopia: The African Union dismissed its security head, and accused disloyalty
Djibouti (HAN) November 13th, 2020. Regional Security and Stability. The AMISOM led forces in Somalia through African Union peace and security office in Addis Ababa were removed all Tigrayan officials, since they cannot be trusted for the morale of AMISOM Security and Military Service initiatives in Somalia. African Union briefing note also came on Friday…
Ethiopia: Why Seyoum Mesfin Faces Reckoning If TPLF Loses?
Djibouti (HAN) November 13th, 2020. Regional Security and Internal Stability. The EPRDF regime led by TPLF for three decades in Ethiopia (1991-2018), was generally recognized and become over the years a repressive communist style state that silences any critics and opposition. According to the Editor of Geeska Afrika Online, Dr. Abdullahi mohamed said, “If you…
Ethiopia and The Two Abays
Addis Ababa (HAN) November 5th, 2010. Regional Security and Stability. Abay Tsehaye is the founding member of TPLF MILITIA. The Opinion Article “Ethiopia and the Two Abays”, By Yilma Bekele, Durame. In today’s Ethiopia the word Abay has become a source of worry for a few and brings despair and anger to the many. We…
Somalia Puts Internal Security on high Alert after Deadly Kabul University Attack
Mogadishu (HAN) November 3rd, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Security. Editor’s Note: Somalia’s Interior Ministry & Security are on high alert, since the Kabul University is over, with at least 25 dead and wounded. Deadly Taliban attack On Governor’s Volleyball-Playing Bodyguards points to armed Drone Use. The use of this low-cost and potentially high-reward tactic…
Farmajo: How an American Bureaucrat Became President of Somalia
Buffalo, USA. By TAYLOR GEE February 19, 2017. He was a refugee who embraced U.S.-style democracy. Now’s he’s trying to bring it home. POLITICO Magazine. On the morning of February 8, 2017, a civil servant from Buffalo, New York—a Somali by birth but an American by choice—walked into a heavily guarded airplane hangar in the…
Somalia: The Afghan & Somali Effects of Annual Budget Gap
Mogadishu (HAN) November 2nd, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives. Normally, the gap between income and spending is subsequently closed by government borrowing, increasing the national debt, but not in the case of volatile an insecure states of Somalia and Afghanistan, the hotspots of International terror groups and corrupt officials. A regional analysis and…
Djibouti: Fawzia Kaafi Taliban Negotiator Nominated for 2020 Nobel Prize
Djibouti (HAN) October 2020. Opinion and Public diplomacy observations: Kabul, Afghan female peace negotiator nominated for Nobel Prize, TAMEEM AKHGAR (AP). Afghan peace negotiator Fawzia Koofi says her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize demonstrates global support for the women of Afghanistan amid historic talks between the country’s warring sides. One of four women representing…
