STORY: AMISOM to aid HirShabelle overcome security challenges
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DATELINE: 13/MARCH/2018, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
SHOT LIST:
1. Wide shot, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia welcoming HirShabelle President Mohamed Abdi Waare for a meeting
2. Med shot, SRCC Ambassador Madeira and other AMISOM senior officials
3. Med shot, SRCC Ambassador Madeira and his deputy Simon Mulongo at the meeting
4. Med shot, HirShabelle President Mohamed Abdi Waare at the meeting
5. Wide shot, SRCC Ambassador Madeira, HirShabelle President Mohamed Abdi Waare and HirShabelle ministers in a meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia
“We discussed the details of the transition and saw where the transition needs to be strengthened, the plan needs to be strengthened, what we think regional forces can contribute and the importance of regional forces in securing these MSRs side-by-side with AMISOM and with the Somali national security forces.”
7. Close up shot, Mohamed Abdi Waare, HirShabelle President listening to SRCC Ambassador Madeira
8. Close up shot, SRCC Ambassador Madeira speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia
“The (is) need to bring in other components of stabilization like institutions of governance, institutions and administrators and the civil affairs officers, humanitarian agencies and police as well as other law and order institutions in that regional state as important component and ingredients for a stabilized HirShabelle.”
10. Med shot, Mohamed Abdi Waare, HirShabelle President speaking at the meeting
11. Close up shot, Simon Mulongo, Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia listening
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Abdi Waare, President of HirShabelle State
“AMISOM is important to us in our daily lives, helping us to tackle these challenges in HirShabelle. On behalf of the people of HirShabelle I want to offer our heartfelt condolences on the incident in Balad on March 2, 2018 in which soldiers from the Burundian contingent escorting a logistics convoy was ambushed.”
13. Med shot, SRCC Ambassador Madeira and HirShabelle President, Mohamed Abdi Waare, shaking hands
14. Med shot, HirShabelle President, Mohamed Abdi Waare, shaking hands with Maj. General Jim Owoyesigire, AMISOM Force Commander
15. Close up shot, HirShabelle President, Mohamed Abdi Waare, in a meeting with Maj. General Jim Owoyesigire, AMISOM Force Commander
16. Wide shot, HirShabelle President, Mohamed Abdi Waare, in a meeting with Maj. General Jim Owoyesigire, AMISOM Force Commander
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Abdi Waare, President of HirShabelle State
“It has been a great pleasure and great opportunity to come and pay a visit to the new Force Commander. It’s the first time for me to pay a courtesy call to him and to brief him on the situation in our sector in HirShabelle. And we had a very good discussion on how to reinvigorate the fight against Al-Shabaab and the opening of MSRs (Main Supply Routes) in HirShabelle.”
AMISOM to aid HirShabelle overcome security challenges
Mogadishu, 13 March 2018 – The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia Ambassador Francisco Madeira today held discussions with the President of HirShabelle state Mohamed Abdi Waare on the security transition plan by the regional peacekeeping force and how to intensify the war against the terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
The meeting comes in the wake of an attack by Al-Shabaab militants on an AMISOM convoy escorting civilian trucks carrying humanitarian supplies from Mogadishu to Jowhar early, this month. The militants also destroyed three civilian trucks, using improvised explosive devices, before they were repulsed by AMISOM soldiers.
Speaking after the discussions, in Mogadishu, Ambassador Madeira who is also the head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said he was conversant with the challenges that faced HirShabelle, the youngest of Somalia’s five federal states.
Some of the challenges include opening up the Main Supply Routes (Mogadishu-Balad-Jowhar-Beletweyne) and helping the state set up administrative structures in liberated areas.
