June 22, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Federal Minister Of Interior Urges Galkayo Elders To Implement Peace Agreement

22 June – Source : Goobjoog News – 171 Words

Somalia’s Minister for Interior and Federal Affairs, Abdi Farah Juha met with some of the traditional elders of Mudug region in Galkayo town. In the meeting Minister Juha urged the elders to implement fully all the articles agreed between Puntland and Galmudug States that were relating to the affairs of the region. Speaking with the media, the Commissioner of Mudug region, Abdirashid Hashi Arte mentioned how they are determined on their side to fulfill their role on the agreed articles and had a discussion with the minister on these issues.

He pointed out the importance of regaining peace in Mudug region, collaboration on good locality and team spirit. “We don’t want our people to prevail in more difficulties and we spoke these things with the Minister” said Commissioner Abdirashid.Recently Galkayo town hosted a meeting between Ministers that were appointed by the regional Presidents of Puntland and Galmudug States. Currently peace illumination is felt in Mudug region by quickly implementing some of the articles agreed upon by the two neighbouring States.

Key Headlines

Federal Minister Of Interior Urges Galkayo Elders To Implement Peace Articles (Goobjoog News)
Somali Government In A Last Minute Rush To Pay Workers Ahead of Eid Celebration (Jowhar.com)
Imminent Attack Predicted In Galkayo (Goobjoog News)
‘This Is A Lawless Place’: Australia’s Somali Community Expresses Concern For Relatives In Libya (SBS Australia)
The Somalis Dying To Get Married (BBC News)
Children Die Of Cholera As Drought-Displaced Families Forced To Scavenge in Mogadishu Garbage (Radio Ergo)

NATIONAL MEDIA

Somali Government In A Last Minute Rush To Pay Workers Ahead of Eid Celebration

21 June – Source: Jowhar.com- 118 Words

The Somali government has made efforts to ensure that its employees are paid their monthly dues ahead of the forthcoming Eidul- Fitri celebration which will be marked after the end of Ramadan. A directive ordering the immediate release of the salaries was issued by Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Kheyre.Following the directive, an inter-ministerial taskforce visited the Central Bank in order to lobby for the salary payments to be facilitated for all government employees including the armed forces. In a press conference following their visit, the Ministers appreciated the management of the Central Bank for their commitment to pay the salaries ahead of the Eid celebration which is expected to be marked at the end of the week.

Imminent Attack Predicted In Galkayo

22 June – Source : Goobjoog News – 137 Words

Mudug Police Administration of Puntland State mentions to have received prior information on planned attacks by Al-Shabaab fighters in its region. According to Colonel Adan Noor Qaal who said to have re enforced security agencies efforts to maintain security in Mudug region amid this imminent attack plans by Al-Shabaab. The police received information on impending planned bomb attack on Galkayo town according to the Police Commander for intelligence source.

He appealed to the residents of North Mudug region to work with the police on security matters. “We received information about our rival enemy planning to attack and bomb Galkayo town. We strengthened our operations and we appeal to the public to work fully with security agents” said Colonel Adan. Al-Shabaab has several times carried out attacks on Northern part of Galkayo town that affected the local population.

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

‘This Is A Lawless Place’: Australia’s Somali Community Expresses Concern For Relatives In Libya

22 June- Source: SBS – 298 Words

A Facebook video authenticated by the aid agency Amnesty International shows malnourished African captives – most of them thought to be Somalis – crammed into concrete cells.Some are forced to contact family members and describe their unimaginable torture – other times it’s the captors, criminals who have seized control in lawless regions of Libya demanding money.

Aden Ibrahim, a leader in Melbourne’s Somali community, said the ransom is generally around US$8,000.”This is a lawless place, so once the person has been called and if the person hasn’t paid the ransom money in time that person may be used as body parts, or worse maybe shot dead … basically mutilated,” Mr Ibrahim said.
Mr Ibrahim also has a confronting collection of photographs provided by Australian-based Somalis who have been contacted by captured relatives – or by the criminals themselves.Libyan gangs use social media to broadcast abuse of African migrants”They actually call you to tell you only few bones have been broken but the person’s still alive and if you don’t pay they’ll be finished,” he said.

But not even ransom payment guarantees release, and there is no single government for authorities to lobby in Libya. Elaine Pearson is the director at the Sydney-based aid agency Human Rights Watch and says it’s time authorities and governments consider how they can intervene.”There’s been a complete breakdown of law and order in the country. There’s no justice system to speak of so in that vacuum it’s allowed criminal groups to act with impunity,” Ms Pearson said.

The Somalis Dying To Get Married

21 June- Source : BBC -Video : 3.27 minutes

Many young Somalis risk everything trying to seek a better life in the Middle East or Europe – often because this is the only way they can afford to get married.Mohamud Ali and video journalist Christian Parkinson report from Hargeisa, capital of Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland, on what it means for those left behind.

OPINION, ANALYSIS AND CULTURE

“The appalling conditions in the camps, which are the site of enormous piles of rubbish, are exacerbating the spread of disease. Nasro told Radio Ergo’s local reporter who visited Rajo camp that she and her children spend hours each morning sifting through the garbage piles looking for plastic bottles and bags that they sell in the local markets. Five plastic bottles sell for 1,000 Somali shillings. Nasro desperately needs the cash. The children also find and eat pieces of food among the garbage.”

Children Die Of Cholera As Drought-Displaced Families Forced To Scavenge in Mogadishu Garbage

21 June – Source : Radio Ergo – 443 Words

Nasro Mohamed Farah has lost four of her seven children in the last three weeks to the cholera outbreak that has been spreading in the crowded and filthy displacement camps on the outskirts of Mogadishu. Nasro, 43, is one of the thousands of people displaced by the drought from Somalia’s southern regions now living in squalor in Rajo camp in the capital’s western Wadajir district.She told Radio Ergo the four children she lost were aged between two and eight. Three of them died in Rajo camp before they were able to get them to hospital. Her last born daughter died in Banadir hospital in Wadajir.

The head of Banadir hospital’s paediatric department Dr Lul Mohamud Mohamed told Radio Ergo that the cause of the deaths was presumed to be cholera. The outbreak killed 105 people living in the IDP camps at the beginning of the year. The hospital currently has 314 patients, mostly children, admitted with symptoms of acute diarrhoea, vomiting and dehydration. In the past week, 13 people including 10 children are reported to have died in the IDP camps in Wadajir.

The appalling conditions in the camps, which are the site of enormous piles of rubbish, are exacerbating the spread of disease. Nasro told Radio Ergo’s local reporter who visited Rajo camp that she and her children spend hours each morning sifting through the garbage piles looking for plastic bottles and bags that they sell in the local markets. Five plastic bottles sell for 1,000 Somali shillings. Nasro desperately needs the cash. The children also find and eat pieces of food among the garbage. The last time the people in Rajo received humanitarian aid was a year and half ago, when the Turkish Red Cross reached out to them.

Rajo camp is of the two major camps opened by the previous Transitional Federal Government to remove displaced people from Mogadishu city centre, when the UN declared famine in parts of Somalia in 2011. Nuurto Jeelow Ahmed, another mother of eight living in the camp, lost her youngest three-year-old daughter to the diarrhea outbreak. She said they also eke out a living scavenging for edible and saleable items amid the garbage piles, as they have no other source of income.

There are four mother-and-child health centres in different sections of Wadajir district providing free services. However, most of the displaced lack money for even the shortest transport fare and are unable to move quickly given their circumstances. Nuurto told our reporter that her small daughter was dead five hours after she began to suffer from diarrhoea and vomiting. She had no time to consider how to rush her to hospital.

TOP TWEETS

@radiogarowe:One dead, several wounded in a heavy clash between local militiamen and Govt forces in the coastal town of #Warshiikh, in southern #Somalia.

@JamalMOsman:Interesting story about the unexpected reason young #Somalis migrate – @mohammudali visits Hargeisa in N #Somalia.

@AbdinasirAbdi90:#Somalia is a leader in mobile money but still wants to print its first cash notes in 25 years,

@USAIDSomalia:In #Somalia @USAIDFFP is working with government to expand awareness and access to nutrition services @US2SOMALIA @USAIDAfrica

@UKinSomalia :”My team and I are going to be working flat out” to support efforts to secure lasting peace for #Somalia“. @DConcar following #QueensSpeech

@USAIDSomalia:In the face of this drought, @USAIDFFP provided #nutrition supplements to 30,000 acutely malnourished children across #Somalia @US2SOMALIA

@IOM_Somalia: @IOM_Somalia scaled up #hygiene promotion activities to contain the AWD/cholera outbreak, reaching 310,450 people in May #Somalia

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