Tag: AMERICA

  • Djibouti: Why foreign countries are scrambling to set up bases in Africa

    Djibouti: Why foreign countries are scrambling to set up bases in Africa

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY:Theo Neethling. Recent media reports claim that a covert Kenyan paramilitary team is responsible for the unconstitutional killing of terror suspects in nighttime raids. The reports are based on interviews with US and Kenyan diplomatic and intelligence officials. The…

  • Kenya: Expand Counter-terrorism Drone War

    Kenya: Expand Counter-terrorism Drone War

    WASHINGTON (HAN) September 15. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. The U.S. military’s Africa Command is pressing for new authorities to carry out armed drone strikes targeting Qaeda-linked Shabab fighters in portions of eastern Kenya, potentially expanding the war zone across the border from their sanctuaries in Somalia, according to…

  • Ethiopia: U.S. Aid Suspension Regarding GERD “Makes No Sense”

    Ethiopia: U.S. Aid Suspension Regarding GERD “Makes No Sense”

    Addis Ababa (HAN) September 13. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. U.S’s suspension of development aid to put pressure on Ethiopia regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), “makes absolutely no sense”, the former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Herman J. Cohen said. The U.S. Secretary of…

  • Somalia: US service member injured  in Attack

    Somalia: US service member injured in Attack

     MOGADISHU (HAN) September 7. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. A US service member was injured in Somalia Monday when Al-Shabaab attacked US and Somali forces, according to the US military. Al-Shabaab attacked the forces using “a vehicle employed as an improvised explosive device and mortar fire,” US Africa Command said in a statement. The injured service…

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