September 1, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report
Four People Killed And Four Others Injured In Clan Clashes In Sool Region
01 September – Source: Goobjoog News – 65 Words
Four people were killed and five others injured Wednesday night in clan clashes in El Lafwyne, Sool region of northern Somalia, residents have said. Witnesses told Goobjoog News the fighting broke out Wednesday night running into early Thursday and that tension still remains high in the area. There is no comment yet from the authorities. The region has experienced perennial clan clashes.
Key Headlines
- Four People Killed And Four Others Injured In Clan Clashes In Sool Region (Goobjoog News)
- Al-Shabaab Blamed For Killing Elder In Beledweyne (Shabelle News)
- No Collaboration Among Government Security Agencies: MP (Shabelle News)
- Victims Of Mogadishu Attacks To Be Airlifted To Hospitals Abroad (Radio Dalsan)
- Lycoming College To Present Sociologist’s Presentation On Somalia (Northcentral PA)
- Meat For Mecca: Somaliland Exports Livestock For The Hajj (Voice of America)
- Somalia’s Central Bank: Where There’s Smoke There’s Often Fire (Wardheer News)
NATIONAL MEDIA
Al-Shabaab Blamed For Killing Elder In Beledweyne
01 September – Source: Shabelle News – 121 Words
The district commissioner of Beledweyne Mohamed Abdi Khalafow has accused Al-Shabaab of being behind the assassination of a prominent elder in the city. Khalafow said Al-Shabaab member has executed Abdi Ibrahim in the west of Beledweyne, the provincial capital of Hiiraan in central Somalia last night.
The killer escaped from the scene shortly after shooting dead the elder, said Beledweyne administrator while speaking to Radio Shabelle over the phone. “The assassin has hurled a grenade bomb at the security forces before escaping,” he said, adding that police launched a manhunt for the suspect. Beledweyne, which is a key town in Hiiraan region, central Somalia has been hit by targeted killings, some are attributed to clan related revenge.
No Collaboration Among Government Security Agencies: MP
01 September – Source: Shabelle News – 101 Words
Former Somali interior and security minister Abdisamad Mo’alin Mohamud said there is no collaboration between the country’s security agencies. Mohamud who is currently a member of the Somali Federal Parliament blamed the insecurity for the lack of teamwork and information sharing among the security agencies.
The MP has voiced concern over the mounting insecurity in the country in which he said could hamper the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. Last Month, UN expressed regret at the delay in presidential and parliamentary elections in Somalia and called on all parties to implement the new calendar without delay.
Victims Of Mogadishu Attacks To Be Airlifted To Hospitals Abroad
31 August – Source: Radio Dalsan – 164 Words
At least 22 people have been killed and more than 55 others injured in a car bomb that exploded near SYL hotel right in front of the Somali presidential palace in Mogadishu. Some of the injured, who included government officials, MPs, ministers, journalists and civilians, were transported to local hospitals for medical treatment. A number of the injured are due to be taken abroad for specialized treatment.
Somali minister for health, Mohamed Haji Abdinoor, and some government officials visited Medina Hospital in Mogadishu where most of the injured were admitted. “We are considering taking the seriously injured patients abroad for further treatment. We are ready to airlift them outside the country for specialized treatment”, Mohamed Haji Abdinoor said during a press conference in Medina Hospital. It is not the first time the federal government of Somalia said it would airlift victims of terror to hospitals out of the country for proper medical care.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Lycoming College To Present Sociologist’s Presentation On Somalia
01 September – Source: Northcentral PA – 347 Words
Paul R. Camacho, Ph.D., associate editor of Armed Forces & Society, will discuss during a presentation at Lycoming College on September 13, 2016 at 7 p.m. the difficulties Somalia faces as it strives to bring economic and social stability to the country. The presentation will be held in the Mary L. Welch Honors Hall on the corner of Fourth and Basin Streets in Williamsport. The event is free and open to the public.
His presentation covers national and international efforts to establish national security and political and economic stability following decades of civil unrest, which has included shipping piracy, famine and Islamic extremist activities by Al-Shabab. In 2012, Somalia held its first presidential election since 1967 and also installed its first formal parliament in more than 20 years.
Camacho was invited by the federal government of Somalia to participate in its conference on internal security held in Mogadishu in April 2014. Subsequently, he has delivered conference papers and journal articles on the rebuilding of Somalia’s major social institutions.
Camacho is the former director of special projects and programs with the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consquences of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Although retired from this position in 2010, Camacho remains active as a fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society and is currently working on a book on warfare in the new millennium and force transition in the U.S. military.
Meat For Mecca: Somaliland Exports Livestock For The Hajj
01 September – Source: Voice of America – Video: 3:24 Minutes
Every year, the breakaway republic of Somaliland exports huge amounts of livestock to Saudi Arabia to feed the millions of Muslim faithful making their pilgrimage to Mecca.
OPINION, ANALYSIS, AND CULTURE
“The story of this recent Central Bank theft in Somalia indicates that the teller has swapped fake notes to get the cash! Thus, the question that comes to mind is how was the teller solely able to gain the necessary authorization to handle such large amounts of cash?”
Somalia’s Central Bank: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Often Fire
29 August – Source: Wardheer News – 762 Words
Recently it was reported that one of Somalia’s Central Bank teller managed to steal $ 530,000. The Governor of the Bank, Mr. Bashir Essa, who assumed the Governor’s position in 2013, has confirmed the incident. The theft however, has raised many eye brows and have many asking and wondering how it was possible for a teller to single handedly manage to steal such an exorbitant amount of cash without the complicit assistance of members of the Bank’s senior management or a web of inner circle accomplice.
This is not the first time Somalia’s Central Bank grabs the headlines as a result of financial fraud activities and allegations of corruption. In 2013 the UN Monitoring group report stated that “On average, some 80 percent of withdrawals from the Central Bank are made for private purposes and not for the running of government, representing a patronage system and a set of social relations that defy institutionalization of the state,” i.e Slush fund or Fadlan. The former Governor of the Bank, Ms.Yusur Abrar, abruptly resigned her post only after seven weeks on the job alleging that “she was pressured illegally to violate her “fiduciary responsibility”.
This recent theft however, be it an organized scheme of some sort or not, puts an already cash strapped Central Bank with an already weak reputation, in a challenging position to revive itself as an emerging and trusted financial institution shoring up Somalia’s economy. The banks usually have standard guidelines on safety measures to safeguard their assets such as cash currency and other instruments of money. They protect and secure these assets physically through the use of cashier’s cages, locked drawers, vaults, locked metal boxes, etc.
Banks also put in place other measures to deter fraud and theft. One key aspect to this is operational management, particularly training staff in procedures of cash management security. This includes separation of duties between the staff that are receiving the cash and those that are doing the day to day cash management activities. It’s also imperative and aligned with industry standards not to retain cash overnight or after working hours in easily accessible desk drawers or standard file cabinets.
TOP TWEETS
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@AbdiazizAbdinur : How Kenya and the U.N. have left Somali refugees facing dangerous choiceshttp://europe.newsweek.com/
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@ZahraNomadic: #Women & #Men in #Somali society: The demands of #gender roles! A never ending strugglehttps://ibtisam.wordpress.com/
@mohabulbul : BREAKING;Reports that senior Al-shabab officer with his body guards killed on Airstrike in #JILIB#SOMALIA more updates soon
@omabha : Somalia: UN envoy condemns terrorist attack on Mogadishu hotel – UN News Centre http://dlvr.it/M94WQK #Somalia
IMAGE OF THE DAY
Minnesota Police Departments donate 1700 lbs of equipment to the Somali Police Force
Photo: UNSomalia