Category: Somalia
Somalia:The Last Hydrocarbon Frontier Region in East Africa
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 27, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. BY: Abdullahi Haider PhD. & Abdi A. Hussein. Somalia is situated in the easternmost part of Africa and is known as Horn of Africa. Somalia geopolitically occupies a very strategic place along major sea transportation routes in the Middle East and Asia.Somalia is bounded by the…
He once tried to fix failing D.C. schools. Now he’s trying to fix Somalia.
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 26, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Fifteen years ago, he was working for the mayor of Washington, trying to turn around crime-ridden neighborhoods and a failing school system. Now, Abdusalam Omer is trying to turn around a failed state. The former D.C. bureaucrat known as Dr. O has a new title: foreign…
Somalia: Al Shabaab kills five at Somali military base
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 27, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Al Shabaab insurgents attacked a Somali military base on Tuesday and killed five soldiers in two hours of fierce fighting near the northwestern town of Baidoa, a military officer said. “Al Shabaab militants attacked early in the morning. Five soldiers died and 12 others were wounded,”…
Somalia to hold general election this August
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 26, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.Somalia will go to the polls this August to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections, the country’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Monday. Speaking at an ambassadors meeting held in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, Mohamud officially announced the month the elections will be held. “The upcoming…
Charlie Rose Speaks to President Hassan Sheik Mohamud
NEW YORK (HAN) April 26, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.President Hassan Sheik Mohamud of Somalia discusses the development of his country, foreign aid, and anti-corruption measures.
Relief agencies scale up food supplies in Somalia amid drought
NAIROBI (HAN) April 23, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Humanitarian agencies have increased efforts to save lives and livelihoods in the areas hardest hit by the drought in Somalia, the UN said on Saturday. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its humanitarian report that relief agencies are prioritizing the provision…
Somalia: Hassan Sheikh at High-level Signature Ceremony for the Paris Agreement
NEW YORK (HAN) April 23, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Remarks by H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud President of the Somali Republic at the national statements of the High-level Signature Ceremony for the Paris Agreement.
Russia to help Somalia in fight against al-Shabaab
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 21, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.The government of Somalia has asked Russia to help equip its armed forces in its fight against terror group al-Shabaab not just in Somalia but in region – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said his country is ready to consider military cooperation with Somalia in fighting terrorism…
Somali electoral college will pick House members
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 21, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Somalia’s president said on Tuesday the Horn of Africa nation, which is grappling with violent extremists, has agreed that an electoral college with almost 14,000 people will elect members of parliament later this year — a hundred times more than the 135 elders who selected current members…
At least 25 Al-Shabaab militants killed in central Somalia
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 21, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.At least 25 Al-Shabaab militants were killed in heavy fighting between the Islamist group and Somalia National Army (SNA) backed by Africa Union peacekeeping forces known as AMISOM on Wednesday night in the outskirt Elbuur town of central Somalia, a local official said Thursday. District Commissioner…
