STORY: AFRICAN UNION TEAM ON ASSESSMENT

VISIT IN SOMALIA
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SOMALI
DATELINE: 7th November 2014, BELETWEYNE,
SOMALIA
SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot, AMISOM DRSCC Hon. Lydia Wanyoto, African Union Peace Support
Operations Division delegation and AMISOM senior military officers alighting
from plane
2. Med shot, AMISOM Djiboutian contingent officers receiving African Union
Peace Support Operations Division (PSOD) delegation, AMISOM DRSCC Lydia
Wanyoto and other officials
3. Wide shot, AMISOM DRSCC, Lydia Wanyoto Mutende and AU PSOD delegation
walking to the venue of meeting
4. Wide shot, AU team and AMISOM DRSCC, Lydia Wanyoto and AMISOM military
officials listen to brief
5. Med shot, AMISOM DRSCC, Lydia Wanyoto listens to the brief
6. Wide shot, Major Ibrahim Ali Farah briefing the delegation
7. Med shot, AMISOM senior military staff listen to the brief
8. Close up, AMISOM senior military staff listen to the brief
9. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) HON. LYDIA WANYOTO MUTENDE AMISOM
DRSCC:
"We are in Beletweyne today to visit our troops but also the Somali National
Army, the community activities and the Somali Police Force activities. We are
coming after the conclusion of the Operation Indian and we came to see our
commanders and thank them for the work done as we are going to do the review
and see how to proceed on mobilizing the community and see how the new
administration is settling in and check on the service delivery points for our
people. But most important to ensure that we have some projects and
community settlement and see how our people are coping after we have cleaned
out Al Shabaab from all areas in these sectors".
10. Med shot, AMISOM senior police staff makes a presentation
11. Wide shot, AMISOM civilian staff listening to the presentation
12, Close up, AMISOM civilian staff listen to the presentation

13. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH): BAM BAM SIVUYILE, HEAD AFRICAN UNION

PEACE SUPPORT OPERATD:
"The aim of our visit is part of ongoing efforts to improve the working
relationships between strategic headquarters at Addis Ababa and the mission
headquarters. Also, to look at improving that relationship between the mission
headquarters and the sectors. This also comes against a background of the new
resolutions of the United Nations which call upon the African Union to undertake
certain activities. So this is part of a process of improving that working
relationship. Looking at the challenges, identifying those challenges and then
seeing how best they could be addressed. Secondly, its part of thanking the
forces for the work they have undertaken, Operation Indian Ocean which was
very good. There have been successes and to work on those successes and
thirdly like any other strategic headquarters, we have to visit our mission to give
morale to the forces, civilians, military, the police on the ground and also to
appreciate the work that they do."
14. Wide shot, AMISOM DRSCC, Lydia Wanyoto and AMISOM military senior staff
leave the meeting
STORY
A high level delegation from the African Union Peace Support Operations
Division (PSOD) is in Somalia on a review mission, looking at the different
activities being undertaken by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
The delegation led by the Head of the PSOD Mr. Sivuyile Bam Bam held different
meetings in Mogadishu and was led by the Deputy Special Representative of the
Chairperson of the African Union Commission in Somalia (DSRCC), Hon. Lydia
Wanyoto Mutende on similar missions in Baidoa and Beletweyne.
While in Baidoa, the team met with the Sector Commander Brig. Gen.
Gabremedhin Fikadu who briefed the AU delegation about ongoing activities, the
challenges faced and gains made against Al-Shabaab.
In Beletweyne, the delegation further met with the Sector 4 Commander Col.
Abdourahman Abdi Dhembil and also received a brief on security and ongoing
operations.
The DSRCC said the visits to the sectors were part of the regular process of
reviewing mission activities but also an important aspect of morale boosting for
the troops.
"We are in Beletweyne today to visit our troops but also the Somali National
Army, the community activities and the Somali Police Force activities. We are
coming after the conclusion of the Operation Indian and we came to see our
commanders and thank them for the work done as we are going to do the review

and see how to proceed on mobilizing the community and see how the new
administration is settling in and check on the service delivery points for our
people. But most important to ensure that we have some projects and
community settlement and see how our people are coping after we have cleaned
out Al Shabaab from all areas in these sectors," she said.
The Head of the PSOD Mr. Sivuyile Bam Bam said the visit as crucial in facilitating
the mission in continued fulfilment of its mandate.
"The aim of our visit is part of ongoing efforts to improve the working
relationships between strategic headquarters at Addis Ababa and the mission
headquarters. Also, to look at improving that relationship between the mission
headquarters and the sectors. This also comes against a background of the new
resolutions of the United Nations which call upon the African Union to undertake
certain activities. So this is part of a process of improving that working
relationship. Looking at the challenges, identifying those challenges and then
seeing how best they could be addressed. Secondly, its part of thanking the
forces for the work they have undertaken, Operation Indian Ocean which was
very good. There have been successes and to work on those successes and
thirdly like any other strategic headquarters, we have to visit our mission to give
morale to the forces, civilians, military, the police on the ground and also to
appreciate the work that they do." he added.
The visit by the AU Peace Support Operation Division (PSOD) follows a
successful military operation that saw 8 towns liberated from al Shabaab.
END.