Category: UN Missions

  • S.Sudan: UN Failing to Protect Civilians

    S.Sudan: UN Failing to Protect Civilians

    JUBA (HAN) December 15, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. People in South Sudan’s Unity State are being subjected to murder, rape and kidnapping with little protection from the thousands of UN peacekeepers there, the Guardian reports, citing Doctors Without Borders. The United Nations mission to South Sudan hasn’t offered any protection…

  • Paris: IGAD Climate Prediction Center Held a Side Event at COP 21

    Paris: IGAD Climate Prediction Center Held a Side Event at COP 21

    PARIS (HAN) December 14, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. IGAD Climate Change Prediction and Application Centre (IGAD CPAC) today hosted a side event at the Twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Eleventh session of the Conference…

  • Prime Minister Hailemariam Emphasizes the Importance of Carbon Pricing

    Prime Minister Hailemariam Emphasizes the Importance of Carbon Pricing

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) December 2, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. At a high-level panel organized on the sidelines of the Climate Summit in Paris, Prime Minister Hailemariam emphasized that Ethiopia was promoting carbon pricing because of its interest in seeing climate change properly addressed since it is suffering from climate change and…

  • UN Climate Change Conference Starts

    UN Climate Change Conference Starts

    Paris (HAN) December 1, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. More than 150 heads of state and government had arrived at the Paris Climate Change Conference On Monday (November 30) and are expected to reach a new and long-term global agreement on climate change. “This is a historic day that we live. France hosts…

  • World Leaders to Launch bid for Climate Breakthrough in Paris

    PARIS (HAN) November 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. World leaders will launch an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back the earth’s rising temperatures, urging each other to find common cause in two weeks of bargaining meant to steer the global economy away from dependence on fossil fuels. They arrive at…

  • Djibouti:  Region that has been torn apart by violent extremism

    Djibouti: Region that has been torn apart by violent extremism

    Riyadh (HAN) November 11, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Humanitarian stability Initiatives News. In Saudi Arabia, UN chief calls fighting terrorism with heavy-handed tactics counter-productive. King Salman recalled the “extraordinary relations” between the two blocs, saying that “this partnership has brought us onto one platform.” He called on the leaders to “bolster cooperation at…

  • Djibouti: East African Nations Prepare Standby Force

    Djibouti: East African Nations Prepare Standby Force

    Djibouti (HAN) October 21, 2015 – Breaking News – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. The defence chiefs from ten East African nations gathered in Djibouti this week to work on a plan aimed at building their countries’ own peacekeeping forces, with the aim of responding to emergency situations in East African countries. The plot comes…

  • Djibouti: UN Security Council authorizes deployment of 22,126 AMISOM Soldiers

    Djibouti: UN Security Council authorizes deployment of 22,126 AMISOM Soldiers

    Djibouti (HAN) July 31, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional weekly Security Initiatives update. Security Council authorizes ongoing African Union deployment in Somalia, extends UN assistance mission. The Security Council this week authorized the Member States of the African Union to maintain the deployment of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) for an additional…

  • Somalia: UNSC and British Govern Endorsed Iran, Somalia is Next

    Somalia: UNSC and British Govern Endorsed Iran, Somalia is Next

    Djibouti (HAN) July 21, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security Initiative News – The British Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia Ms Harriet Mathews OBE, presented her credentials to the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Following the Somalia presidential palace ceremony, Ms Mathews said…

  • Ethiopia vows to wipe out 'dens of terror' after Al-Shabaab attacks

    Ethiopia vows to wipe out 'dens of terror' after Al-Shabaab attacks

    Addis Ababa (HAN) July 3, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News – Somali militants of Al-Shaabab attacks Lego AMISOM base (watch). Reports indicate that at least 70 Amisom soldiers were killed after Al-shabaab militants attacked a base of the African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (Amisom) in the capital Mogadishu. The African Union…

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