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Three Kenyan Soldiers Wounded in Blast Claimed by Al-Shabaab
NAIROBI (HAN) November 24, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Three Kenyan soldiers were wounded, one of them critically, when their vehicle was hit in eastern Kenya by a roadside bomb that the Somali Islamist al Shabaab group said it had planted. The blast in Hulugho, Garissa County, which lies next to the…
Ethiopia Will Launch Four More Industry Parks in Two Years
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 11, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. Ethiopia, which wants to become a hub for light manufacturing industries, plans to build four industrial parks in the next two years investing up to $500 million in each, a senior government official said on Monday. Offering cheap labour, improving power supply and transport infrastructure,…
Securing Somalia's Future: Options for Diplomacy, Assistance, & Security Engagement
MOGADISHU (HAN) November 10, 2007. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. Good afternoon, and thank you for the introduction. I am pleased to have this opportunity to publicly discuss U.S. policy and engagement in Somalia. I know that a lot of ink has already been dedicated to this topic in the American and international press, but I…
Maersk Oil Buys Stakes in Kenya & Ethiopia Licences
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) November 9, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. Maersk Oil has agreed to buy half of Africa Oil Corporation’s shares in three onshore exploration licenses in Kenya and a further two in Ethiopia for a fee that could rise to $845 million, it said Monday. The oil arm of Danish conglomerate A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S…
Consultative meeting on the establishment of the IGAD Biodiversity Database and Information System
Djibouti (HAN) November 5, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. IGAD held a consultative meeting whose aim was to strengthen and establish a biodiversity database and information systems at national and regional levels on 3-5 November 2015 at Sheraton Hotel in Djibouti. The process is a component of the IGAD Biodiversity Programme, which is supported by EU…
Iran Signs Contract to Provide Somalia with Supplies
TEHRAN (HAN) October 14, 2015 – Public Diplomacy Regional Security News. Iranian Red Crescent Society has signed a contract with International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to provide Somalia with food supplies, Fars reported on Tuesday. The contract has been signed during a video conference held between the two humanitarian organizations. The…
Somalia Affirms its Maritime Case Against Kenya "Lacks Legal Merit"
Mogadishu (HAN) October 11, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional News. Somalia has dismissed claims by Kenya that the maritime case it filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) lacks legal merit, arguing that it will pursue it to its logical conclusion. In a response to Kenya’s challenge of the case submitted this week…
Africa: Beware the Green Revolution
Nairobi (HAN) October 7, 2015 – Public Diplomacy. Opinion By: William G. Moseley The development community has been crowing of late about the obvious need torevamp African agricultural practices. Not since colonial times has it been so easy to blame small peasant farmers for the continent’s development woes. The standard agricultural development formula to address this, developed in other…
Djibouti: Ukraine Warned Risk Becoming "A Kind of Somalia in the Middle of Europe"
Djibouti (HAN) October 8, 2015 – Opinion – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. Ukraine risks becoming ‘some kind of Somalia’ by Catholic News Service. The head of the Ukrainian Catholic church has urged the Vatican to show greater support for his country, as a senior Vatican diplomat warned the country risked becoming “a kind of…
Yoweri Museveni blamed his own commanders for being "asleep"
Nairobi (HAN) September 12, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security. The leader of Uganda conceded Saturday that Islamic extremists in Somalia may have taken some of his country’s troops as prisoners, and blamed his own commanders for being “asleep” in allowing a recent attack on an African Union base. President Yoweri Museveni said that 19 soldiers…
