International Partners Welcome Convening of Consultative Forum
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Mogadishu – International partners welcome the 30 January announcement by H.E President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed that he will hold a consultative forum with Federal Member State leaders, to be held in Dhusamareb between 1 and 3 February. We commend his leadership in convening this meeting.
We call on participants to engage actively and sincerely in this forum, to find solutions through fair compromise in the national interest, and to agree implementation of the 17 September model for rapid delivery of elections throughout Somalia. African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Ireland, Italy, League of Arab States, Netherlands, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Qatar, Russia, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, and the United Nations.
With UN Support, Puntland Launches Database System to Track Gender-Based Violence Cases
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Garowe – The process of registering, tracking and recording gender-based violence (GBV) cases in Somalia’s northern Federal Member State of Puntland is expected to improve following the launch today of a United Nations-backed, specialized online database.
“This will help the Attorney General’s Office to strictly monitor repeated and multiple GBV cases, which have become prevalent recently,” Puntland’s Deputy Attorney General, Mohamed Hared, said today at the launch in Garowe, the state’s capital.
“The Attorney General’s sub-offices in four regions in Puntland – Mudug, Nugal, Karkar and Bari – will benefit from the initial phase of the database project, with these regions no longer needing to use the manual registration methods [for GBV] that are common across Puntland,” Mr. Hared added.
GOOBJOOG NEWS|FMS: The stalemate over elections in Somalia eased Wednesday night following the release of state-level election committees by Jubbaland and Puntland seemingly dropping their earlier conditions following intense pressure from the UN.
Both Jubaland and Puntland announced eight members each to their respective State Indirect Elections Teams (SIET) after months of grandstanding setting conditions for the Federal Government. Key on their demands was the withdrawal of federal troops from Gedo region, a demand President Mohamed Farmaajo has turned down.
The two states alongside the Council of Presidential Candidates (CPC) had also demanded Farmaajo disbands the Federal level elections team (FIET) and name a new one arguing the committee was packed with the president’s loyalists.
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2.Med shot - UN envoy James Swan in the plane
3.Close up shot - UN envoy James Swan reading the schedule of the visit
4.Med shot – passengers aboard the flight
5.Med shot – the Country Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Somalia, Cesar Arroyo, reading documents during the flight
6.Med shot – the UN Women Representative in Somalia, Sadiq Syed, reading documents during the flight
7.Med shot - the Representative of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to Somalia, Johann Siffointe, onboard the flight
8.Med shot - UN aircraft’s landing gear down in preparation for landing at Garowe