Category: Somalia
Somalia: AMISOM is fully composed of neighbouring states forces
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 10. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.By. Joakim Gundel. Interestingly, when AMISOM was initially established to protect the new TFG from 2009 and onwards, the idea was that it should not be composed be forces from the neighboring states due to the risk of complicating the mission with the interests of the neigbouring…
Background: U.S. Twisted Ethiopia’s Arm to Invade Somalia
Washington (HAN) April 7. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By Rob Prince. In what appears to be another U.S. proxy war. In the mid 2007, the 50,000 Ethiopian troops that invaded Somalia in late 2006 found themselves increasingly bogged down, facing much fiercer resistance than they had bargained for as Somalis of all stripes temporarily put aside…
Somalia: Somali National Police captured al-shabaab’s tactical Operational Vehicles
Mogadishu (HAN) April 9. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. According to securty sources in Mogadishu, the mortars were destined to the Presidential palace, but missed and landed in Hamar weyne district, causing the death of civilians. Although no one claimed responsibility for the attack, there was similarity between this and a series of previous…
New pirate epidemic looms as terrorism, drought and foreign trawlers strangle Somalian fisherman
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 9. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Reformed Somalian pirates turned fisherman are threatening to return to their former vocation saying over fishing by foreign trawlers and a severe drought gripping the war-torn country has left them no choice. Once the scourge of the Gulf of Aden attacks has been decreasing in the…
Somalia: Security Forces Nab 17 Al-Shabaab Suspects
Mogadishu (HAN) April 8. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Somalia security forces backed by African Union troops on Wednesday arrested 17 Al-Shabaab militants in an operation conducted in Yakhshid district in the north of the capital Mogadishu. Spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Security Abdikamil Moallim Shukri said that 17 Al-Shabaab suspects were among…
Somalia: Launches an Inclusive Strategy to Counter Violent Extremism
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 7. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and HE the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, praised the efforts of the CVE Coordinator Hon Mustafa Duhulow and all stakeholders for their consultative meetings to develop a comprehensive…
Somalia Agrees to International Monetary Fund Monitoring Program
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 7. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.Somalia has agreed to a one-year monitoring program with the International Monetary Fund, as the nation tries to rebuild a functioning state amid an Islamist insurgency. The staff-monitored program, which doesn’t involve loans, aims to help Somalia improve budget planning, boost oversight of banking and money-transfer businesses,…
Somali Lawmaker Survives Assassination Attempt
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 7. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. A Somali parliamentarian survived a drive-by shooting near a busy Mogadishu market on Tuesday in which two of his bodyguards were killed, police said. “A lawmaker was wounded in Hamarweyne by gunmen, there are investigations going on but there are also other casualties,” said police officer…
Somalia Earns $360M From livestock Exports
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 7. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. After years of violent conflict in the Horn of Africa, Somalia has emerged as the leading livestock Exporter in East Africa. Data from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization found that Somalia exported a record 5 million animals in 2014, worth around $ 360 M,…
Somalia: Al-Shabaab calls security and stability in exchange for Shariah law
Barawe (HAN) April 4. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By Tonny Onyulo – Special to The Washington Times . In this coastal city on the Horn of Africa, about 130 miles south of the capital of Mogadishu, the al-Shabab terrorist organization holds sway. But unlike other parts of war-torn Somalia, peace reigns here, albeit precariously, under…
