Category: Press Release

  • French Embassy Tells Citizens in Djibouti to stay on High Alert 

    French Embassy Tells Citizens in Djibouti to stay on High Alert 

    Djibouti (HAN) October, 28, 2020. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security Alerts. French Embassy warned its citizens living or travelling in several IGAD countries, such as Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea and Somaliland to take extra security precautions as anger surged over the illegal religious cartoons published by the French paper in Paris to insult Prophet…

  • Kenya: Cuban Doctors Abducted In Kenya In 2019 are still in Custody

    Kenya: Cuban Doctors Abducted In Kenya In 2019 are still in Custody

    Nairobi (HAN) October 27, 2020. Regional Security Watch. AFP Sources and HAN Update: (Fale Information) Two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya’s northeast in April 2019 and taken over the border to Somalia by suspected Al-Shabaab militants are still in custody (It was false alarm that they have been released, a police official said…

  • Somalia: Security Experts Blindsided by Trump Assertion of US troops Pullout

    Somalia: Security Experts Blindsided by Trump Assertion of US troops Pullout

    Mogadishu (HAN) October 27, 2020. Regional Security and Stability Initiatives. Senior National and Regional Security officials blindsided by President Donald Trump’s assertion and announcement of US troop withdrawal from Somalia. The Trump administration has fallen prey to the pitfalls of ending Al-Shabaab killings in Somalia and kenya. Last week, Somali National Army (SNA) spokesman Major…

  • A Future Young MP with Mission in Somaliland

    A Future Young MP with Mission in Somaliland

    Barbara (HAN) October 27, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and Youth Initiatives. Omar Ali Meygag, told to the youth online forum, organized by Sahra Yar,  “Standing up for women’s rights in Somaliland’ parliament 2025.” Daily Thoughts Are Just Thoughts:Thoughts Emerge From Consciousness “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” Geeska Afrika Online Editors…

  • Editor’s take: UN Promise to Save  Generations from the Scourge of War

    Editor’s take: UN Promise to Save Generations from the Scourge of War

    New York (HAN) The Week that was September_October  2020. ReliefWeb (UN GA) Networked Multilateralism Crucial for Tackling Climate Change, Growing Poverty, COVID-19 Outbreak, Speakers Stress in Day-Long Debate. Editor’s take (©UN Photo/Rick Bajornas. Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Security Council ministerial-level open debate on conflict prevention and sustaining peace). In a high-level meeting to commemorate…

  • Assessing Somalia’s 2021 Presidential Election P1

    Assessing Somalia’s 2021 Presidential Election P1

    Hargeisa (HAN) October 19, 2020. Regional Security and Election Initiatives – Part 1 (join Forum DOORASHADA-20/21). Somalia’s current electoral system structures Somali political and regional tribal competition, shapes selection outcomes, and exists in relation to  the processes of competition between organized interest groups in Somalia and its regional Federal member states. Somalia’s 2017 election was…

  • Eritrea: Government’s continued illegal detention of Bitweded Abraha

    Eritrea: Government’s continued illegal detention of Bitweded Abraha

    Press Release: Yesterday, 6 October, 2020, was the 29th anniversary of the detention in Eritrea of Bitweded Abraha, an incarceration pronounced to be unlawful by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Eritrea fought a protracted war with Ethiopia to secure its independence, a war which only ended in 1991. Bitweded was one of the…

  • Somalia: WFP On Implementing Locust Program

    Somalia: WFP On Implementing Locust Program

    MOGADISHU –  The Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs H.E Sadik Warfa and the World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director and Representative Cesar Arroyo today signed an Output Agreement enabling WFP to implement the Shock Responsive Safety Net for Locust Response Project (SNLRP) on behalf of the Somali Government. This comes after the Federal Government…

  • Ethiopia: Nine Political Parties (NEBE)

    Ethiopia: Nine Political Parties (NEBE)

    Addis Ababa (HAN) December 12, 2019. Ethiopian Elections 2020 – Political parties legalizations. Ethiopia: National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) issues certificates of recognition for nine political parties. They are: Afar Peoples Justice and Democratic Party (APJDP), Afar Peoples Liberation Party (APLP), Gamo Democratic Party (GDP), Mocha Democratic Party (MDP), Kucha People Democratic Party (KPDP),…

  • Ethiopia: Nobel 2019 “In Pursuit of Honour”

    Ethiopia: Nobel 2019 “In Pursuit of Honour”

    Oslo (HAN) December 11, 2019. Public Diplomacy and International Security. Ethiopian leader Abiy Ahmed Ali receives Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo December 10th, 2019, according to Geeska Afrika Online. It was historic, on July 9, 2018, following a historic meeting in Eritrea’s capital Asmara, Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki formally ended a 20-year-old stalemate…

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