Category: Opinion
Somali: A British Teacher’s Heroism Versus Al-Shabab’s Barbarism
Djibouti (HAN) April 4, 2014: Opinion by Bashir Goth -Recently the British Dailymail carried the amazing story of a British teacher, Ray Coe, 53, who donated a kidney to his young student, a Muslim girl, Alya Ahmed Ali, 13. The story was emailed to me by a friend who also said in his email: “What…
Ethiopia and its Pan-Africa Security Responsibility vis-a-vis UN peace principles
Nairobi (HAN) March 31, 2014 – After the devastating WW1, the world seated in 1919 to establish world organization which could monitor international peace and security to make sure that no 2nd World War would originate. Ethiopia is among the few Founding Member States of the UN predecessor League of Nations. Taking the advantage of…
Ethiopia: European companies sell surveillance technologies to abusive foreign regimes
Djibouti (HAN) March 13, 2014 – Opinion By FELIX HORNE – Many Europeans are upset over revelations that the United States government spies on them. But European companies are selling surveillance tools and know-how to other governments, allowing them to spy abroad. Their customers include some of the world’s most abusive governments and at least…
Somalia: The Diplomat's feeling of political confederation system linking Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea
Mogadishu (HAN) March 30, 2014- Sharing diplomatic files: What we know, what we don’t know To begin with; there is the question of why the Roobdoon Forum lays so much emphasis now on late ambassador Mohamed Said Samantar’s interview with the French quarterly review journal, Afrique Contemporaine. The simple answer is: the Forum devotes so…
Eritrea: Invited at the level of the president to Africa-EU Security summit
Djibouti (HAN) 29 March, 2014 -The African Union’s Peace and Security Council has advised the bloc not to attend the EU-Africa summit set for Brussels, Belgium next week to protest how Europe is holding the continent in contempt by determining who is eligible to attend the meeting. The PSC is the AU’s most powerful organ…
Somalia: Why Somalia isn’t the real piracy threat
Djibouti (HAN) March 28, 2014 – Despite dangers portrayed in Captain Phillips, pirate attacks in Somali waters have declined drastically. It’s a different story in Strait of Malacca. The thriller Captain Phillips, focused on Somali pirates, but pirate strikes in Somali waters have plummeted. There were only seven incidents in 2013, all unsuccessful. Opinion By:…
Somaliland: Harvard trained economist turn Somaliland's eastern regions into a bloodbath
Hargeisa (HAN) March 27, 2014 – Abdiwali Ali Gaas is one of the few lucky Somali students who studied at the elite Schools in the North America with the taxpayers of poor Somalia, no doubt Mr. Gaas is well credentialed and needless to say he attended in x or y university. And it is true…
Ethiopia: Authority are hacking Ethiopian Diaspora Computers
Rome (HAN) March 27, 2014 – The Ethiopian government used a new Italian surveillance program to hack into computers of their own journalists located in the US and Europe. A new report by Citizen Lab have confirmed the speculations regarding the Ethiopian government hacking into the computers of Ethiopian journalists in the US and Europe. According…
Lampedusa is an absolute tradgedy for Somali and Eritrean
Djibouti (HAN) On 26 March 2014, Lampedusa is an absolute tragedy and has been for years. It isnt only Eritrea, but Somalia and also latterly Syria and Libya. The journey from Eritrea or Somalia is breathtakingly dangerous and many people never even make it to Northern Africa, rape, kidnap and slavery are common, there are…
Somalia: Al-Shabaab and Beautiful Kampala
Nairobi (HAN) March 26, 2014 – By: Magnus Taylor: I took a couple of hours out today to visit what used to be called the ‘Gadaffi Mosque’ in ‘Old Kampala’. This, according to the testimony of my tour guide, is the oldest part of the city, and the hill on which the mosque sits was…
