Category: Somalia
Somalia seeks to drive militants from southern valley bases
NAIROBI (HAN) April 24, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Security News. Somali and African forces aim to drive al Shabaab Islamist militants out of one of the last major tracts of territory in southern Somalia that the group still holds and which it uses to launch attacks, the Somali prime minister said on Thursday. Omar…
Somalia: Militants kill 14 in Car Bomb Attack on Restaurant
Mogadishu (HAN) April 21, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Maritime Security News. A suicide bomber from the Somali militant group al Shabaab on Tuesday rammed a car laden with explosives into a busy restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than a dozen others. The lunch-hour explosion…
UN mourns four staff killed in Somalia bomb attack
Mogadishu (HAN) April 21, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Security News. The UN children’s agency mourned Tuesday four staff members killed in what UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned as a “barbaric attack” in Somalia. Two of those killed in Monday’s bombing in the northeastern town of Garowe came from Kenya, the other two from…
Somalia: Bomb Attack Claimed By Al-Shabab Responsibility
Bossaso (HAN) April 20, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Maritime security News. according to AP, A bomb explosion on a bus carrying U.N. employees in northern Somalia killed at least six people and wounded many others Monday, police and U.N. officials said. The Puntland regional state police officer Col. Ali Salad, said by…
Kenya: The Horn of African Closed Door Security Talks in Jordan
AQABA (HAN) Apr 19, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional News. President Uhuru Kenyatta, President Hassan Sheikh of Somalia and other regional leaders held lengthy consultations with King Abdulla II of Jordan on terrorism challenges facing the Horn of Africa. Other regional leaders who attended the closed door talks were Presidents Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, who…
Somali Shopkeeper "why Mandela spent 27 years in prison for?"
Mogadishu (HAN) April 17, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional humanitarian Security News. Xenophobic Attack in South Africa against black African Migrants. A group of migrants, including a child, are rounded up and burned alive. Malawi says it will repatriate its nationals from South Africa. burnt alive and it is the silence from the South African government…
Remittances Crisis Continues: Somali-linked money transfer firms shut down.
Nairobi (HAN) April 8, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Infrastructure investment news. Kenya’s government has ordered the closure of 13 money transfer firms to prevent militant Islamists from using them to finance attacks, the interior minister has told the BBC. The bank accounts of 86 individuals and “entities” had also been frozen, Joseph Nkaissery…
Somalia: President "Federalism is Crucial to Achieve Vision 2016"
Mogadishu (HAN) April 7, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional defense and Maritime security News. The Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud assured the delegates that his government is committed to implementing Vision 2016 and also directed all federal and regional government institutions to implement and speed up the process of realizing Vision 2016. The Somali president…
Somalia: In Mogadishu Everything is For Sale "USAID"
Mogadishu (HAN) April 6, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional security News. By. Deeq M Afrika. According to an eyewitness, with pictures, “USAid food assistance are for sale in Mogadishu market.” According to a Somali photo journalist: “From American people to businesses is the new slogan for USAID” He added his statement: I took these…
Business lessons I have learned from Somali traders
Mogadishu (HAN) April 4, 2015– As a Somali associate of mine likes to say, when people think of Somalis, they only think of PTW (Piracy, Terrorism & War). As with a lot of Africa, sadly this narrative only focuses on the negative aspects of the community. Somalia and its people have had a number of success…
