Category: Somalia
Somalia: Exclusive Interview with the British Ambassador Neil Wigan
Nairobi (HAN) May 11, 2014. Britain government has appointed Mr Neil Wigan as its new senior representative to Somalia, Neil is based on Kenya capital, Nairobi. Ambassador Neil Wigan has cordially welcomed for being appointed as the new envoy to Somalia. Ambassador Neil Wigan was set to replace the first UK envoy to Somalia for nearly…
Somalia: The United Nations Multi-donor Trust Fund Meeting
Mogadishu (HAN) May 10, 2014 -The Somalia president Hassan Sheikh had In a meeting with a European & international donors Ambassadors at Halane Compound in Mogadishu. The delegations updated and exchanged views about the the New Deal Compact, Somali vision of 2016 and the Peace and State building Goals for Somalia. The first High Level Partnership Forum…
Somalia: Interventions from AMISOM have not brought the promised peace
Ohio (HAN) May 9, 2014 – Regular Expert Analysis Contributors, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Opinion Paper by Ambassador Abukar Arman. Ambassador Abukar Arman is the former Somalia special envoy to the United States and a foreign policy analyst. Somalia is held in a nasty headlock by a neighborhood tag-team unmistakably motivated by zero-sum objective.…
The Somali-American Leaders Testified at Minnesota State Capital
Minnesota (HAN) May 9, 2014 – By Jibril, The Somali-American community in Minnesota have made tremendous efforts to help the Somali refugees and Somali-Kenyans who had been ethnically profiled, detained, tortured, abused, extorted and deported by the Kenyan Government. Therefore upon rallying at the State Capital, writing letters, petitions, phone calls, e-mails, meeting with high…
Somalia: State-building under Attack 'Unlawful military and diplomatic actions in Somalia'
Djibouti (HAN) May 9, 2014 – Regular Expert Analysis Contributors, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Opinion Paper by Mohamud M Uluso. Despite the troubling silence of African, Islamic, and Western leaders about the Kenya government’s brutal human rights violations against the Somali community in Kenya for their ethnic background and about its unlawful military and…
Somalia: Aid Agencies have warned in a joint campaign entitled "Risk of relapse"
Nairobi (HAN) May 9, 2014 , Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Opinion Page By, ANJLI PARRIN. Three years after a famine claimed 260,000 lives in Somalia, 2.9 million people there are still affected by a multifaceted but desperately underfunded humanitarian crisis, and communities are just “one shock away from disaster”, a host of…
Somalia: Al-shabaab members Fled Malaysia to set up a new base
Mogadishu (HAN) May 9, 2014 – According to the US National Counter Terrorism Center, Al-Shabab’s terrorist activities have mainly focused on targets within Somalia, but it has also proven an ability to carry out deadly strikes in the region, including coordinated suicide bombings and a deadly raid on a Nairobi West gate mall. Western countries and regional security partners…
Somalia: The security footage looks like Somali teenager dropping from jet
Nairobi (HAN) May 8, 2014. The video appears to confirm Somali immigrant Yahya Abdi’s incredible story. Hawaii releases video of teen dropping from jet. On April 20, he ran away from home, hopped a fence at Mineta San Jose International Airport and climbed into the wheel-well of a plane — where he stayed for a five-hour flight.…
The Somali American Ranger, 'We will keep this nation together'
New York (HAN) May 8, 2014. Opinion Contributed By Elmi and Edited by Geeska Afrika Online Staff. The Somali American Ranger Elmi said, We will keep this nation together, and we will work out our problems within it; the United States’ existence is far more important. In 2010, Because of her Nobel work in America, she…
Somali: Hersi acknowledged knowing Canadian who was Al-Shabab Member
Toronto (HAN) May 8, 2014. A Somali-Canadian youth on trial in Toronto for allegedly attempting to join Al-Shabab was questioned Tuesday about his relationship with two former Somali-Canadian classmates who left for Somalia in 2009 to take up arms with the Al-Shabaab terrorist group in Somalia against Ethiopian forces and killed. Mohamed Hersi acknowledged knowing…
