June 21, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report
PM Kheyre Speaks Harshly On Wadajir District Bomb Attack
21 June – Source:Goobjoog News- 312 Words
A press release from the office of the Prime Minister Hassan Ali Kheyre condemns the attack on Wadajir Administration Centre in Mogadishu which led to fatal casualties.The Prime Minister of Somalia, Hassan Ali Kheyre condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist bomb blast action aimed at citizens who were present in Wadajir Administration Centre in Mogadishu.
The Prime Minister sent his condolence to all those who died in the attack executed on the public. He prayed to God to give eternal bliss to the dead and wishes quick recovery to those who were injured.The Premier said the attack came when the public are on the last leg of Ramadan and preparing for Eid celebration. As a result this step displays the inhuman goal of the peace rivals group to hurt the conscience of the Somali people to discourage them on the prospect of peace and governance of the highest level.He claimed such attacks will not deter the Somali National Government from the route of development and governance.
The Prime Minister portrayed Al-Shabaab as a terrorist group and the enemy of the Somali people who always hunt the population.In the same breath, the Prime Minister said “this terrorist group of Alshabab is desperate now on bombing the public only and they don’t display an interest for Somalia and are irreligious. We have to unite against them with great strives.They are hell bent on destroying the history of Somalia and their sole target are the vulnerable persons and they are not our siblings.”
Prime Minister Kheyre appealed to the youths who are members of Al-Shabaab to make use of the olive branch that was extended to them by President Farmajo in order to participate in the rebuilding of their nation.The government pledges to take care of the youth with the provision education in order to serve the society.
Key Headlines
- PM Kheyre Speaks Harshly On Wadajir District Bomb Attack(Goobjoog News)
- Afgooye Residents Decry Harassment By Militia Dressed In Somali Army Uniform (Shabelle News)
- Galmudug And Puntland Ink Preliminary Deal Over Mudug Conflict (Garowe Online)
- Minister Yarisow Rebukes Politicians Lobbying For The Recognition Of Benadir Region (Jowhar.com)
- Somalis Issue Conditions For Wall Project(Daily Nation)
- Khalifa Foundation Distributes 16000 Food Baskets In Somalia (Emirates News Agency)
- Amid Drought Somali Pastoralists Watch Their ‘Sources of Life’ Perish (News Deeply)
NATIONAL MEDIA
Afgooye Residents Decry Harassment By Militia Dressed In Somali Army Uniform
21 June – Source: Shabelle News – 120 Words
Residents of the district of Afgooye are complaining of militia dressed in Somali army uniform who carry out killings in the district. A number of residents of Afgooye who spoke to Radio Shabelle say the militia are forcing people to pay illegal taxes and killing those who do not abide by their rules.In the past few days a number of people were killed in the districts of Afgooye raising tension in the area. On a recent visit to Afgooye, President, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo promised the residents that the government will do all what it can to stop illegal checkpoints and improve security in the area. The residents are however complaining that the President’s words have not been honoured.
Galmudug And Puntland Ink Preliminary Deal Over Mudug Conflict
21 June – Source: Garowe Online – 124 Words
Crucial talks between Galmdug and Puntland that have been going on in Mogadishu have resulted in a four point preliminary agreement. The talks were aimed at resolving the intermittent conflict between clans in the Mudug region. The final agreement will be signed in a high level ceremony to be attended by the Minister for Interior and Federal Affairs, Abdi Farah Said(Juxa).When asked by Garowe Online to comment on the deal, the Minister said the agreement is very vital step but warned such agreements have been negated and that there is need to put a lot of emphasis on the need to move forward. He said his ministry will work with the two regional administrations to bring an amicable solution to the conflict.
Minister Yarisow Rebukes Politicians Lobbying For The Recognition Of Benadir Region
20 June – Source: Jowhar.com – 117 Words
The Minister for Information, Abdirahman Omar Osman has rubbished efforts by some politicians from Mogadishu to lobby for the representation of Mogadishu that is aimed at addressing the status of the Benadir region. In a social media post, the Minister says the status of Mogadishu can only be attained through dialogue.He seems to be giving a response to some of the politician who have been organising meetings in Mogadishu in the pretext of lobbying for the recognition of Benadir region as Federal Member State and determining the status of the city of Mogadishu. The Minister made the comments while on a trip to Spain equating the status of the city of Madrid to that of Mogadishu.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Somalis Issue Conditions For Wall Project
20 June- Source:Daily Nation – 462 Words
Somalis living on the Kenya-Somalia border want the government to meet their demands before a security wall is built.Their demands include compensation for property that will be demolished on their land where the wall will pass.They further demand that they be given space to put up their own fences and also an assurance that they will be accepted in Somalia if they relocate.“We cannot just move because we have been living here for many years and getting another home or land inside Somalia will be difficult unless the Kenyan government mediates for us to be accepted,” said Mohamud Mohamed Aden, a Somali national living on border.
Mr Aden’s homestead has been marked for demolition.Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia said Somalia has made proposals on how to handle the issue.“There are proposals given to us by Jubaland officials, including profiling the affected families and taking stock of all structures in Kenya and along the border. But this is just an agreement in principal,” Mr Shisia told the Nation.Mr Shisia revealed that Somali families who have settled in Kenya have two options, according to the government-to-government agreement.“They have to relocate to Somalia, where they will be given land to settle, and Kenya will provide 50 per cent of the total construction cost of their new homes,” he said.
Khalifa Foundation Distributes 16,000 Food Baskets In Somalia
20 June- Source: Emirates News Agency – 174 Words
The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, KF, has distributed 16,000 food baskets to Somalis in four governorates.The gesture is in line with the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Foundation.
The aid provided by KF for victims of the floods in Somalia coincides with the ‘For You, Somalia’ campaign launched to carry out the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed to help Somalis overcome their dire living conditions.Beneficiaries praised the UAE’s humanitarian gesture for the people of Somalia, wishing permanent security for the UAE under its wise leadership. They also recalled merits of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan as well as his charitable contributions across the globe. The population also extended thanks to the Khalifa Foundation.
OPINION, ANALYSIS AND CULTURE
“Sahara’s three children are all severely malnourished. Yet the facilities to treat malnutrition, such as the one at Garowe Hospital in Puntland, are strained, with admissions doubling between January and March of this year,”
Amid Drought, Somali Pastoralists Watch Their ‘Sources of Life’ Perish
20 June- Source: News Deeply -1089 Words
“Our world of plenty today faces an unprecedented four famines,” anti-poverty group Oxfam said in late May, as the leaders met for the G7 summit in Sicily, which is once again the gateway for most refugees to Europe.Along with northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen, Somalia is faced with a particularly dire situation, which highlights the growing nexus between climate change and displacement.Somalia has consistently produced one of the largest refugee and internally displaced populations in the world, due to a combination of conflict, environmental degradation, drought and famine.With over half of the country’s population experiencing food and water shortages, the Somali president declared the ongoing humanitarian crisis a “national disaster” in February.
In April this year, while traveling through the Dangoroyo district in Eastern Puntland, an autonomous region in Somalia, our research team at Samuel Hall met Ahmed*, a pastoralist, though this job description barely applies to him these days.Having been a herdsman all his life, Ahmed, who knows no other means of making a living, lost 90 percent of his 150 animals as a consequence of the current drought in the Horn of Africa.“The drought forced me to move from the place where I lived and herded my livestock … just look at the scale of devastation and deprivation,” said Ahmed, who is the head of his household. “We are up against one of the worst situations I have witnessed or even heard of.”“We are up against one of the worst situations I have witnessed or even heard of.”
The result of three years of failed rains, the current drought, deemed the worst to hit the region in decades, forcibly displaced Ahmed to a nearby village where he is barely surviving.The scenes of helplessness among pastoralist families as they watch their sources of sustenance waste away reveal extraordinary suffering. In a country where livestock is the largest contributor of livelihoods that engages at least 65 percent of the population, the perishing of 80 percent of animals in the country has brought devastation.Some people have lost every single animal, and there are reports of suicide among hopeless herders. The rapidly deteriorating situation is reminiscent of the 2011 drought in Somalia, which resulted in a famine that claimed 260,000 lives.
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