Tag: Election

  • Former PM announces 2020 presidential bid

    Former PM announces 2020 presidential bid

    GAROWE (HAN) September 13. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre announced on Saturday that he will run for the presidency in the next year election.“It is clear that our country has made a progress over the last 2 decades. I have served this…

  • Ethiopia: Landslide Win For TPLF, Makes things more complicated.

    Ethiopia: Landslide Win For TPLF, Makes things more complicated.

    Addis Ababa (HAN) September 11. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. The Tigray Regional State, on September 9, 2020, held its Regional election that many said was an unprecedented act of defiance to the Federal Government while it was also claimed “successful” by the Tigray Electoral Commission. The election was held amidst escalating tension that was given…

  • Ethiopia: How a musician’s killing exposed the media

    Ethiopia: How a musician’s killing exposed the media

    Addis Ababa (HAN) September 10. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. The night the popular Oromo singer Hachalu Hundessa was murdered, a dreadful sense of loss and fear seized me. I felt my hands and feet shivering as I struggled to post a message of condolence on Facebook. That night, I could not sleep. Looking at how…

  • Ethiopia: Tigray State Defies

    Ethiopia: Tigray State Defies

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 8. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. By Mehret Okubay. Banners flying high, speakers blaring campaign slogans and cafes abuzz with conversations about politics, Meqelle is in election fever as the Tigray Regional State prepares to hold a vote for its State Council. Banners flying high, speakers blaring campaign slogans and cafes abuzz…

  • Ethiopia: Tigray polls set to escalate standoff

    Ethiopia: Tigray polls set to escalate standoff

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 8. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. In a career that took him from Mogadishu to Washington and beyond, veteran diplomat Wondimu Asamnew spent 24 years pleading Ethiopia’s case to the world. These days, though, he is pushing a different narrative: that the federal government he once served is now like “a drunken…

  • Somalia:  Former Presidents Unite to fight Farmaajo

    Somalia: Former Presidents Unite to fight Farmaajo

    MOGADISHU (HAN) September 7. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. In Somalia’s political scene, the revolving door is brutal and not even presidents can be safe. Every sort of election held in and out of Somalia since the fall of Siad Barre has often produced a new leader, their legitimacy notwithstanding. In modern times, when Somalia started…

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