May 6, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report
Government Forces Launch Security Operations In Waberi District
06 May – Source: Goobjoog News – 151 Words
Somali security service members have launched a large scale sweep in Waaberi district following a security threat, officials said. Somali government security forces commenced door-to-door searches at dawn on Friday in several neighbourhoods in the district. Waberi district commissioner said security forces began operations and the searches are aimed to crack down hidden Al-Shabaab cells.
Residents said members of the security forces were on friday deployed around the main streets of the town. “They are checking everybody. They have arrested two youths, whom they suspected of being members of Al-Shabaab,” said a resident who sought anonymity. Another colonel told the media that the move was aimed at eradicating “anti-peace” groups as well as restoring peace and security around the town. “This is a normal security operation of the police aimed at ensuring peace and security of our community and eliminate a few elements who want to cause trouble,” he said.
Key Headlines
- Government Forces Launch Security Operations In Waberi District (Goobjoog News)
- Somali Information Minister Congratulates Shabelle Media Network On Its 14th Anniversary (Shabelle News)
- Building a Strategic National P/CVE Response For Somalia (Mareeg Media)
- Somali Clerics Association Call On New Chief Justice To Restore Justice In The Country (Goobjoog News)
- Judge Orders Somali Teen Returned To Foster Family (The Seattle Times)
- Midwives On The Frontlines Of Fighting Maternal Mortality In Somalia (UNFPA)
NATIONAL MEDIA
Somali Information Minister Congratulates Shabelle Media Network On Its 14th Anniversary
06 May – Source: Shabelle News – 188 Words
The Minister of Information for the Federal Republic of Somalia Honorable Mohamed Abdi Hayir Mareye has congratulated Shabelle Media Network on the 14th anniversary of its foundation. The information minister of Somalia said Shabelle Media Network is a role model for all independent media stations operating across the horn of Africa country, with a pledge for a dedicated service to the public.
Mr Mareye also said Shabelle Media Network station is popular with due to it’s authenticity and in-depth coverage of latest situation on the ground as it serves its people of Somalia inside and outside the country tirelessly. The Minister, said: “On behalf of the Federal Government, I want to send my warmest wishes to the management of staff of Shabelle Media Network on the 14th anniversary of establishment.”
“Radio Shabelle played a very crucial role since it went on air 14 years ago and it is voice for the voiceless people of Somalia,” said the minister. The Shabelle Media Network is a leading independent Radio and TV station founded in 2002 in Merka, the capital of Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia, but now the station is based in Mogadishu.
Building a Strategic National P/CVE Response For Somalia
06 May – Source: Mareeg Media – 428 Words
The Right Path (Tubta Toosan) Initiative for Somalia held a two day workshop on 4th and 5th of May 2016 in Djibouti on Building a Strategic National Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Response for Somalia as part of the inclusive process to develop a national strategy on preventing and countering violent extremism in Somalia. Attendees of the workshop included representatives from Ministries of Internal Security, Information, Youth & Sports, Women & Human Rights, Justice, Religious Affairs, the National Defector Programme as well as representatives from the Federal member states of South West, Puntland, Jubbaland, Galmudug and Benadir region.
The Hon Mustafa Duhulow, the government-appointed CVE Coordinator who leads the Tubta Toosan Initiative for Somalia, thanked the participants for supporting the inclusive process to develop a national strategy on preventing and countering violent extremism for Somalia. Hon Duhulow said: “The objective of the two day workshop was to learn from experts on how to develop a national strategy. We heard presentations to the group on how other countries developed their CVE strategies, the importance of an effective communications strategy and the elements of International Good Practice in CVE, all of which will contribute to ensuring that the CVE Strategy for Somalia addresses the root causes and drivers of CVE in the country.”
Following two days of discussion between the representatives of the regions and the various ministries of the Federal Government of Somalia together with international experts formulated a Statement of Consensus and an agreed Action Plan for the Development of a National CVE Strategy for Somalia. The Hon Mustafa Duhulow reiterated the importance of consulting with as many key stakeholders as possible in order to produce a final strategy that meets the distinct needs of Somalia. The Hon Duhulow noted: “The Federal Government of Somalia is committed to reaching out to all key stakeholders in the society, especially women, traditional leaders, the youth, religious leaders and civil society groups as well as the Diaspora, as the strategic integration of all those groups in the design and implementation of the national CVE strategy is vital to ensuring impact and long-term sustainability.”
The Tubta Toosan Initiative initiated the process to develop a national CVE strategy with the full support and at the direction of the leaders of the Federal Government of Somalia. Next steps will include further engagement with stakeholders and the sharing of a draft strategy for more consultation. As many Somalis as possible will be given the opportunity to make contributions to the strategy, including members of the Diaspora and through an online consultation where any citizen can offer their input.
Somali Clerics Association Call On New Chief Justice To Restore Justice In The Country
06 May – Source: Goobjoog News – 223 Words
Somali Islamic Cleric Association has called on the newly appointed Chief Justice, Ibrahim Idle Suleyman to functionalize the judicial service in country and fight the corruption in Somalia’s judicial department. The chairman of the association, Sheikh Noor Barud Gurhan said that the chief justice should restore the justice in the country and protect the voiceless society.
Suleyman was appointed on Wednesday by Presidential decree following the sacking of High Court Chief Judge related for age related health complications. Suleyman a law graduate of International University of Africa in Khartoum has hitherto been the Attorney General of Somaliland state from 2011. Suleyman is reported to have handed over his resignation on February 28 to Somaliland president Ahmed Silanyo.
He was appointed an appellate judge in 2005 in Somaliland for a period of one year. Before that he was a judge in Hargeisa between 2001 and 2002. In his CV obtained exclusively by Goobjoog News,Suleyman says he has been instrumental in reducing the backlog of cases running for up to ten years in the breakaway region in Somaliland. Between 2006 and 2011, Suleyman served as director of civil training in the faculty of law at Hargeisa University. He takes over reins of power at the helm of the country’s judiciary at a transitional period as the country prepares for elections slated for August this year.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Judge Orders Somali Teen Returned To Foster Family
06 May – Source: The Seattle Times – 311
A federal judge in Seattle has ordered immigration officials to release a Somali teenager who was taken from his Oregon foster family and placed in an adult detention center in Tacoma, Washington. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman said in her order, released Tuesday, that the Office of Refugee Resettlement violated the law by saying the boy was no longer a minor based solely on a dental bone scan analysis, called radiography.
The boy fled Somalia after his father was murdered and requested asylum at a port of entry inTexas. The resettlement agency placed him in a shelter and then sent him to a foster home in Portland, Oregon. He was enrolled at a high school. Officials said on Dec. 9 that they no longer believed he was a minor, based on the bone scan, and they moved him to adult detention.
Pechman said a law enacted in 2008 precludes the government from determining age exclusively with the bone tests. Messages left with the Department of Justice lawyer who handled the case were not immediately returned. Matt Adams, legal director for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, said the agency’s actions were indefensible.
OPINION, ANALYSIS, AND CULTURE
“There are many factors in maternal deaths in Somalia, but the key factor is the lack of births attended by a midwife or doctor,” says Emily Denness, UNFPA’s midwifery advisor in Somalia.
Midwives On The Frontlines Of Fighting Maternal Mortality In Somalia
06 May – Source: UNFPA – 806 Words
Nine years ago, Maymuun Abdullahi Nur’s mother died giving birth to her eighth child, during a delivery attended only by an untrained traditional birth attendant. Just 13 at the time, Maymuun was struck with a conviction that the postpartum haemhorrage that killed her mother could have been stopped and that her mother could have lived to meet the newborn baby, the family’s first son, and to see Maymuun and her six sisters grow up.
It was not the first time Maymuun had seen this kind of preventable tragedy occur in her village in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region – a rural area in the south of the county that has been plagued by conflict for twenty five years, and where residents have little access to modern health care services. And so Maymuun made a decision about the course of her life that terrible day. “I decided there and then that I would train to help save the lives of women in rural areas,” she says.
And she has stuck to her vow. This fall, after graduating with high marks from an 18-month program at the Mogadishu Midwifery School, which is supported by UNFPA, Maymuun, now 22, returned home to Lower Shabelle and has been a practicing midwife there for five months. “I am glad that my dream has now come true, and I am now helping women give birth safely,” she says.
Today, 5 May, marks the 26th-annual International Day of the Midwife. Since the day was first observed in 1991, the world has nearly halved its rate of maternal deaths; however, every year, approximately 300,000 women still die during pregnancy and childbirth, and almost 3 million babies do not survive their first four weeks of life.
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IMAGE OF THE DAY
Jubaland President met with US Amb. to Somalia and discussed fighting against terrorism and the election of 2016.
Photo: @Mosabrie