Category: USAFRICOM
Kenya: Africom General Rodriguez briefed Uhuru on Somalia Security
Nairobi (HAN) October 27, 2014 – Public diplomacy and Regional defense and security news. According to Horn of Africa Security Industry Tracker, President Uhuru Kenyatta held talks with the Commander of US Africa Command, General David Rodriguez, who paid him a courtesy call at State House, Nairobi. President Uhuru Kenyatta, I held talks with the…
Somaliland: Without single solution, extremists will become deadly ideological outbreak
Hargeisa (HAN) October 5, 2014. Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page By, Ahmed Farah, “Today’s Foreign Policies of the Western World is the reason Islamic Militants are Mushrooming.” For seven years, the Somali American youth leader Abdirizak Bihi has waged a personal battle against an elusive foe: religious extremists using sophisticated…
Ethiopia Shared $5 billion counterterrorism Partnerships fund
New York (HAN)September 26, 2014, Public Diplomacy and Regional strateic defense and Security news. President Obama meets with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailermariam Desalegn. Presdent Obama has spent much of the week discussing his counterterrorism plans, including airstrikes in Syria, Somalia and Iraq against the jihadist group known as the Islamic State and Islamic…
Djibouti: Is ISIS a threat to American, European or Canadians?
Djibouti (HAN) September 23, 2014 – Defense and National security news. The Militants audio recording says it does not matter whether the “disbeliever” is civilian or military. “The best thing you can do is to strive to your best and kill any disbeliever, whether he be French, American, Canadian, Australian, British or from any of…
Somalia: British Strategic Defense and Security communique implementation plan
London (HAN) September, 20, 2014 – Defense and national security. Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Lancaster House Communique explains Somali’s strategic defense implementation plan and analyzes the available resources to support the upcoming style of national army plan, Somali’s continuing mission to protect its national territory and approaches as redefined by the Somali’s five White…
Somalia: International Strategic Support to Unified National Army
London (HAN) September 19, 2014 – Defense and National security news. The Prime Minister of Somalia, Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, today opened an international meeting focussed on Support to the Somali National Army (SNA), at Lancaster House. A senior Somali delegation led by the Prime Minister and including the Minister of Defence, National Security Advisor, Chief…
Djibouti: U.S. Strategy Against ISIS
Djibouti (HAN) September 17, 2014 – Geeska Afrika Online Daily Security Briefing. Secretary Hagel and General Dempsey on ISIS Threat.: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Martin Dempsey testified on President Obama’s strategy for combating ISIS* militants. Secretary Hagel outlined the administration’s approach that includes expanded airstrikes, additional U.S. personnel in Iraq,…
Somalia: US State Department delegation in Mogadishu to defeat Islamic State
Mogadishu (HAN) September 16, 2014, Regional diplomacy and security news by the Office of the Spokesperson, Washington, DC. Counselor Thomas A. Shannon’s delegation travel to Mogadishu, a part of a security campaign to defeat Islamic State. The Counselor of the Department, Thomas A. Shannon, visited Mogadishu on September 14. He was joined by Special Representative for Somalia James…
Somali Ambassador: ISIS doctrine ‘Is a Cancer Which Is Spreading to the Horn of Africa’
Minnesota (HAN) September 15, 2014- Public diplomacy and regional security news. In an interview with Geeska Afrika Online news, diaspora community Ambassador Hashi Shafi, discussed the significant threat that ISIS poses and the importance of US federal government, regional state security and Somali community partners working together to fight ISIS doctrine. “This is a cancer…
Djibouti: Concerns about Al-Shabaab's British Connection
Djibouti (HAN) September 14, 2014 – Defense and national security news. A British intelligence assessment by the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism analysis shows that the British intelligence have already arrested 69 people this year for “Syria related terrorist offences” that include terrorist financing, preparing an act of terrorism, and attending a terrorist training camp. British…
