Category: Sudan
Eritrea: Diplomats must play by the Protocol rules
Ottawa (HAN) June 21, 2014 – Updates news and views: Eritrean Diplomatic Immunity Series 1 Part 1. The Eritrean regime relies on diaspora cash for hard currency. But according to the UN, it also uses its money to support armed rebels opposing Ethiopia, and others with ties to the notorious Al-Shabaab movement in Somalia. The task of diplomacy including…
Ethiopia: Egypt Signaled and signed a diplomatic deal
Cairo (HAN) June 13, 2014 – Egyptian President Al Sissi pushes for deal on disputed Nile Dam and Signaled a diplomatic deal with Ethiopia. President Abdul Fattah Al Sissi signaled a thaw in ties with Addis Ababa, when he said in an inaugural speech that he would not allow a dispute over Ethiopia’s construction of…
Ethiopia: Egypt and Sudan will later affect its ability to control the Nile waters
Khartoum (HAN) Jun 6 , 2014. In June 2013, Mohamed Morsiwarned that Egypt would not allow its share of the Nile to be diminished by “one drop” after Ethiopia began diverting the Blue Nile as part of a giant dam project in Ethiopian borders. (Photo: Members of the Ethiopian Orthodox church walk in the source of…
Sudan: The Iranian Red Sea missile drama
Cairo (HAN) June 5, 2014 – Fearing reprisals from Saudi Arabia and Israel, Khartoum turns down Tehran’s offer to build missile launch pads near Port Sudan. Therefore Just how close are relations between the Islamist regimes in Khartoum and Tehran? The headline from Iran’s Fars News Agency on 4 June – ‘Iran, Sudan Discuss Expansion…
Eritrea: President Requested an investigation on Human Trafficking
Khartoum (HAN) May 31, 2014 – The Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki Requested an investigation on Human Trafficking, in effort to thwart human trafficking issue in the Horn of Africa. Regional political unrest has brought suffering not only to Egypt, Libya or Tunisia but also to hundreds of Eritrean refugees. Their goal is Israel and Western Europe,…
European Union: External Action Fact Sheet about South Sudan
Brussels (HAN) May 14, 2014. Pres Release – European Union, External Action Fact Sheet. South Sudan is on the brink of a full-blown civil war. Famine and the prospects of a major humanitarian disaster are looming. Beyond the suffering of the South Sudanese people, this crisis risks affecting a much wider region that is already prone to…
Ethiopia in a Bid to Stem a Brutal Civil War in South Sudan
Khartoum (HAN) May 9, 2014 – South-Sudan will agree the IGAD draft Agreement, diplomatic sources told Geeska Afrika Online. Sout Sudan Leaders with the International Mediators and the IGAD frontline state led by the former Ethiopian Foreign Minister Sayum Mesfin said the “critical meeting will help end the violence and killings in South Sudan”, and…
Sudan: The First Turkey Agricultural Agreement Deal Signed
Djibouti (HAN) May 1, 2014. According to the agricultural deal agreed in Sudan, the Turkish General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises (TIGEM) and Turkish companies can invest directly in Sudan, engage in partnerships with local partners or fund agro-processing and food production projects. Sudan has very large agricultural land and the rainwater is enough for irrigation…
The Reasons Sudan Praised Ethiopia's Strategic Nile project
Khartoum (HAN) April 30, 2014 According to the World Bulletin, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday praised a series mega projects being implemented in Ethiopia, saying it would pave the way for “the new Ethiopia.” Addressing Intellectuals’ Forum on Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in the lakeside town of Bahir Dar, 578km northwest of Addis…
Sudan: United States will Renew Threat of Sanctions Against Militants
Khartoum (HAN) April 26, 2014 – By LARA JAKES (AP) . The United States Secretary of State John Kerry will renew his threat of sanctions against Sudan’s militants in a visit next week to South Sudan, where ethnic killings are ripping apart the 3-year-old nation and all but scuttling peace talks. John Kerry’s in South…
