Category: Somalia
Somalia: Transforming Somali Security Settings, Progress and Prospects
Djibouti (HAN) May 7, 2014. Opinion & Regional Security Analysis Event. The most pressing and difficult task facing the government of Somalia continues to be bringing peace and stability to the country, working alongside African Union troops and with support from the international community. Hon Abdikarim Hussein Guled, Minister of National Security, Federal Government of Somalia…
Somalia: Reasons Lawmakers call Somali President to Resign
Djibouti (HAN) May 7, 2014. The Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia, Hon. Mohamed Osman Jawari has shown a sheer determination and courage to move the country ahead. Despite the enormous undertakings including leadership challenges and security complications. Today, More than 133 Somalia Federal lawmakers signed a political statement which called President Hassan Sheikh…
Somalia: The U.S. Money Remittances Improvement Act
WASHINGTON (HAN) May 7, 2014 – The House of Representatives just passed the Money Remittances Improvement Act, which will help new Americans send money to family abroad. Remittances are a lifeline for the loved ones of many in the Somali and Among communities in Minnesota. I will work with my colleagues in the Senate to encourage…
Somalia: The Strategic Challenge of Al-Shabaab's Dimensions of Jihad
Nairobi (HAN) May 5, 2014 – Academic Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Academic Paper by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Middle East Quarterly. Since emerging from an era of colonialism under Italy and Britain, Somalia has passed through military dictatorship, famine, and civil war to regional fragmentation. In the modern period, Americans best remember the loss…
Somalia: The Current State of Power and Influence of Al-Shabaab
Djibouti (HAN) May 4, 2014 – Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Geeska Afrika Online . Interview series conduct by John Amble, which will feature experts in their field answering questions on a topic of current relevance to the Horn of Africa’s Regional Security Updates, stability, defense, diplomacy, and foreign policy. We received numerous responses…
Somalia: Peter Neumann, Questions About his Trip to Mogadishu
Djibouti (HAN) May 4, 2014 – Your Power & Influence Online Magazine: Geeska Afrika Online . Interview series conduct by John Amble, which will feature experts in their field answering questions on a topic of current relevance to the Horn of Africa’s Regional Security Updates, stability, defense, diplomacy, and foreign policy. We received numerous responses to…
Somalia: Lack of rains putting Lives of thousands of farmers at risk
Mogadishu (HAN) May 2, 2014 – Somalia was the hardest hit by extreme drought in 2011 that affected over 13 million people across the Horn of Africa, with famine zones declared in large parts of the war-ravaged south. War and delayed rains in Somalia are putting thousands of lives at risk, especially in areas where…
Somalia: New Amisom tactics Pursues Elusive Enemy in Somalia
Addis Ababa (HAN) May 2, 2014. Updated diplomatic and Security tactics in the region. African Union forces have wrested control of territory from Al-Shabab militants in southern Somalia. But as VOA’s Gabe Joselow reports from the frontlines, with ever-changing tactics, the terrorist group has proven to be hard to finish off. The United States Secretary…
Somali Swedish Mother Set up an orphanage Center in Somalia
Mogadishu (HAN) April 30, 2014 – Update, according to Mohamed Hirmoge CCTV, the Somali-Swedish mother from Europe has set up an orphanage Center in Mogadishu to help them and people with disabilities. Two decades of civil war and warlord conflict have had terrible effects on Somalia’s children. Many have lost their parents and ended up…
Somalia: UN Hopes Amisom Strategy Will Weaken Al-shabaab Threats
Djibouti (HAN) May 1st, 2014. According to security correspondence in Mogadishu, who monitors intelligence sources of Southern Somalia, confidence has emerged to invest and do business in Somalia . The report released in New York, the United Nation’s Special Representative for Somalia, Nicolas Kay also supported those assessments. Despite political turmoil and the threat…
