Category: Somalia
Somalia: Somali President in Kismayo for Reconciliation Conference
Mogadishu (HAN) September 16, 2014 – Public diplomacy and regional security news. A high level delegation of Federal government led by the Somali president arrived in Kismayo. Sources told Geeska Afrika Online to secure regional tensions. The purpose is to strengthen economic and political ties between Kismayo and Mogadishu. Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud is…
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…
Somalia: Global Justice to end rape by Ugandan Forces
London (HAN) September 14, 2014 Human Right Press Release and Public diplomacy News. Petition by Hafsa Aamin, London, United Kingdom. Ugandan Soldiers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have rapped women and girls as young as 12 and traded food aid for sex. These soldiers abuse somali women and young girls sexually and physically…
Somalia: A senior Somali Intelligence Officer Assassinated
Mogadishu (HAN) September 14, 2014 – Weekend anti-terrorism and national security news. By Omar Nour, the Somali Al-Shabaab militants again shot dead the deputy chief of Somalia’s anti-terrorism unit, Mohamed Qanuni, in a drive-by shooting in Mogadishu, police officer said. The Somali Al-Shabaab military operation spokesman Abdiaziz Abu Musab claimed that militants blocked Qanuni’s vehicle…
Somalia: President answered wide range of security and alleged rape questions
Mogadishu (HAN) September 13, 2014 – Regional security and Public diplomacy news. The Federal Somali president Hassan Sheikh attended a public diplomacy and govornance awarness event in Mogadishu to mark the end of Federal Somali Government’s 2nd year in Somali presidential office. The Somali president answered wide range of questions to selected members of the Somali society…
Somalia Will be a successful model for U.S. intervention in Syria and Iraq
Nairobi (HAN) September 13, 2014 – Regional security and Public diplomacy news, by AFP Nairobi. The U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a “relentless” war against the Islamic State, and has cited the ongoing intervention in Somalia as a model for intervention in Syria and Iraq. So drawing on the experience of US operations against…
Somalia: Jubaland Security forces arrested Al-Shabaab fighters planting roadside bomb
Kismayo (HAN) September 12, 2014 – Regional defense and National security news. Jubba interim administration security forces have detained two Al-Shabaab militants who were caught planting a bomb on a road in Kismayo, the regional capital of Lower Jubba and the Jubba administration center. The administration security forces have told the press that the two…
Somalia: How Will the Death of Its Leader, Ahmed Godane, Impact Al Shabaab?
Norway (HAN) September 9, 2014 – Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page by Stig Jarle Hansen. On the 1st September 2014, at around 19:00, American drones fired several missiles in the Sablaaleh/Hawaay and Dahay Tubako areas, between 35 and 55 km from Brawa, one of the Somali islamist group Al Shabaab’s…
Somalia: UNSC urged political rivals to take another step towards peace and stability
Mogadishu (HAN) September 9, 2014, Regional security and public diplomacy news. The Special United Nations Representative for Somalia, Nicholas Kay in Mogadishu urged political rivals in the south-western part of the country to take another step towards peace and stability with the establishment of a new interim regional administration. “I urge those who remain outside…
