UPI
March 10, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya — East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda’s
Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.
The region, until recently largely ignored by the energy industry, [...]
Category Archives: Djibouti
East Africa is next hot oil zone
March 11, 2010 – 5:43 pm
How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
March 8, 2010 – 3:25 pm
Guardian, UK
March 7, 2010
An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
A woman tends vegetables at a giant Saudi-financed farm in Ethiopia.
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards [...]
Germany and Djibouti agree on close cooperation
February 26, 2010 – 11:23 am
Afrik/German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
February 25, 2010
Djibouti’s Foreign Minister meets Foreign Minister Westerwelle
Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle met the Foreign Minister of Djibouti, Mr Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, on February 23. The two men agreed that the international community must continue the fight against piracy in the Horn of Africa.
The Foreign Ministers agreed on closer cooperation [...]
U.S. condemns Eritrea for “destabilizing” role
February 22, 2010 – 5:13 pm
Reuters
February 22, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – The United States accused Eritrea on Monday of working to destabilize the Horn of Africa region and urged President Isaias Afwerki to bring a halt to what it called a threat to international peace.
The statement released to Reuters by the U.S. Embassy in the Eritrean capital came on the same [...]
Experts call for holistic war against piracy
February 22, 2010 – 5:09 pm
The East African, Kenya
February 22, 2010
BERNARD SANGA
International maritime experts are rooting for a multi-pronged approach to eradicate piracy off the Somali coast. They are calling for a land-based strategy, a pointer to the limitations of the on-going sea-based approach.
The proposed strategy, seen by The EastAfrican, underscores the importance of matching the current military [...]
Somali regions urged to battle Islamist militia
February 4, 2010 – 8:09 am
Guardian Newspaper, Nigeria
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
A SIX-NATION East African regional bloc has urged Somalia’s two breakaway regions of Puntland and Somaliland to jointly battle Islamist militia which it said had extended to the areas.
Heavy mortar fire between African Union peacekeepers and Islamist insurgents [...]
Statement on IGAD by Eritrean Govt
February 4, 2010 – 8:04 am
www.eastafricaforum.net
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Eritrea
February 3, 2010
Press Release
IGAD: A communiqué devoid of any legality
The IGAD Council of Ministers has issued a communiqué on Somalia and Eritrea following a meeting convened in Ethiopia this weekend. Apart from its ill-advised content which can only exacerbate the crisis in Somalia and hamper the objectives of peace [...]
Yemen takes procedures to thwart African terrorists infiltration
January 29, 2010 – 9:17 pm
Saba News, Yemen
January 28, 2010
SANA’A – Yemen’s security authorities have taken precautionary procedures to prevent African terrorists infiltration to the Yemeni lands among the Somali daily influx, a security source said Thursday.
The source told the weekly 26september that the procedures include enhancing marine monitoring along the Yemeni coastline and the immediate register for the arrival [...]
Djibouti says to commit 450 troops to Somalia
January 28, 2010 – 10:18 am
Reuters
January 28, 2010
Duncan Miriri
ADDIS ABABA – Djibouti said on Thursday it planned to send 450 soldiers to Somalia possibly next month to boost the African Union (AU) peace mission that is protecting the fragile Western-backed government.
Uganda and Burundi each have 2,500 peacekeepers in Mogadishu with the AU’s AMISOM force in Mogadishu.
Its soldiers come under near-daily [...]
Djibouti feels the effect of investment mix
January 27, 2010 – 11:39 pm
Financial Times, UK
January 26, 2010
Robert Wright
There is no obvious connection at first glance between the grubby, low-rise streets of Djibouti City, capital of the east African state of Djibouti, and the spectacular modern high-rise landscape of Dubai .
However, a brief examination of most of the prominent businesses in the tiny state reveals its heavy dependence [...]
