Category: Somalia
Two killed, 15 injured in central Somalia mosque blast
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 4. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. BY: Abdi Sheikh & Feisal Omar. Two people were killed and 15 others wounded when an explosion ripped through a mosque in the central Somalia region of Hiiraan during evening prayers on Thursday, police said. Local residents and police said it was unlikely that militants would target a…
Somalia al-Shabab: US drone strike targets militant chief
MOGADISHU (HAN) April 4. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.The US military says it has targeted a vehicle carrying three al-Shabab militants in a drone strike in Somalia. A Pentagon spokesman named the main target as Hassan Ali Dhoore, accused of organising recent bomb attacks in which US personnel were killed. US officials say they…
Somalia: French Navy Seizes Somalia Bound Weapons Cache
MOGADISHU (HAN) March 31. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.BY:Defense Industry Daily Staff Americas Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC and Chemring Military Products were awarded a $750 million firm-fixed-price contract for non-standard ammunition and non-standard mortar weapon systems. The contract was awarded by the US Army on Monday, with an estimated completion time of March 27,…
PRESIDENT ABDIWELI ALI WELCOMES A HIGH-LEVEL DELEGATION LED BY IGAD.
GAROWE (HAN) March 30. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali has warmly welcomed the arrival of a high-level delegation led by the Executive Secretary (ES) of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Ambassador Mahboub Maalim at the State House. He arrived today on an official visit to Puntland. The Executive Secretary…
Somalia: Dumping Harmful Toxic waste, Somalia’s largely unguarded Coastline.
MOGADISHU (HAN) March 30. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Is there any hope for Somalia? Opinion By RASNA WARAH: Critical Issues: Dumping harmful toxic waste along Somalia’s largely unguarded coastline. One of the consequences of state collapse in Somalia in 1991 was that foreign companies began dumping harmful toxic waste along Somalia’s largely unguarded coastline. It…
Somalia: New Russian Ambassador
MOGADISHU (HAN) March 28. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud has received on Monday credentials from the newly-appointed Russian ambassador to Somalia Sergey Kuznetsov. Russia has appointed a new ambassador to Somalia, a move to restore the bilateral relations of both countries. The New Russian Ambassador, Sergey Kuznetsov presented his credentials…
Somalia: Canadian Diaspora shot dead in Mogadishu
Mogadishu (HAN) March 28. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The Somali Al-shabaab terror group in Mogadishu, shot and dead a Somali Canadian business man in Somali capital Mogadishu, one of the the latest in several terror attacks against returning Somali diaspora who started flocking back to Mogadishu since the ouster of Islamist fighters from Mogadishu…
The Race Against Time in Somalia
The 2013 Somali Compact agreed between the Somali Federal Government and international donors set ambitious deadlines for the delivery of a new constitution, electoral laws, and national elections, all by late 2016. Since then, optimism that Somalia’s perpetual transition might be ended has been undermined by the familiar themes of missed targets, political infighting, and…
Message from PM Cameron to British-Somali Students
UK Prime Minister David Cameron on the British Somali Community’s Success on Education at the Somali Youth Development Resource Centre Educational Achievements Awards Night.
Somalia: Security Council Authorizes Mandate Extension for UN Assistance Mission
NEW YORK (HAN) March 25. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The Security Council decided today to extend the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) until 31 March 2017. Unanimously adopting resolution 2275 (2016), the Council underscored the importance of UNSOM’s provision of United Nations good offices in support of the…
