STORY: AU Special Representative for

Somalia seeks additional AU funding for

Quick Impact Projects in areas liberated
from Al Shabaab
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DATELINE: 24/MARCH/2017, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, Ali Haji primary School

2. Med shot, Ali Haji primary School
3. Close up, Ali Haji primary School
4. Close up, Ali Haji primary School
5. Med shot, one of the classrooms in Ali Haji primary
School
6. Wide shot, one of the classrooms in Ali Haji primary
School
7. Close up, one of the classrooms in Ali Haji primary
School
8. Wide shot, the AU Peace and Security Council tour the
school
9. Med shot, the AU Peace and Security Council tour the
school
10. SOUNDBITE: AMBASSADOR FRANCISCO MADEIRA,
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE
AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION FOR SOMALIA.
We carry on with these projects, with quick impact projects that
improve the lives of those who are affected by the war in the
hope that these will move quickly to cause reconciliation and
stabilization of this population.

11. Wide shot, the AU Peace and Security Council tour the
school
12. Med shot, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, Special
Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union
Commission for Somalia and Ambassador Ntshinga Ndumiso,
Chairperson of the AU Peace and Security Council
 13. SOUNDBITE: AMBASSADOR FRANCISCO MADEIRA,
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE
AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION FOR SOMALIA.
You are doing a very wonderful job and you have to continue.
We know that you are doing in very difficult conditions, but you
must continue and tell these young teachers that they are doing
good things for their own country.

14. Med shot, Aden Adde International Airport Police Station

15. Close up, Aden Adde International Airport Police Station
16. Wide shot, Aden Adde International Airport Police Station
17. Med shot, Aden Adde International Airport Police Station
18. Wide shot, members of the AU Peace and Security
Council
19. Med shot, members of the AU Peace and Security
Council
20. Med shot, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, Special
Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union
Commission for Somalia and Ambassador Ntshinga Ndumiso,
Chairperson of the AU Peace and Security Council
21. Close up, a member of the AU Peace and Security
Council
22. Wide shot, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, Special
Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union
Commission for Somalia addresses members of the AU Peace and
Security Council
23. Med shot, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, Special
Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union
Commission for Somalia addresses members of the AU Peace and
Security Council
24. Close up, a member of the AU Peace and Security
Council
25. SOUNDBITE: AMBASSADOR FRANCISCO MADEIRA,
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE
AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION FOR SOMALIA.
AMISOM is a mission with a comprehensive mandate. We do
military, we do police, we do ideological narrative, we do
education, we capacitate Administrations and now we want to do
this in coordination with the UN because that will be a multiplier
of capacities and potential. We felt that the Peace and Security
Council should come and see this other side of our effort, not just
the war effort.
 26. Wide shot, members of the AU Peace and Security
Council

AU Special Representative for Somalia seeks additional AU

funding for Quick Impact Projects in areas liberated from Al
Shabaab

Mogadishu, 24 March 2017 - The Special Representative of the

African Union Commission Chairperson (SRCC), for Somalia
Ambassador Francisco Caetano Madeira today appealed for more AU
funding for Quick Impact Projects, in areas liberated from Al
Shabaab.

He made the appeal at Ali Haji Primary School in Mogadishu, where

he accompanied a visiting delegation of the AU Peace and Security
Council.

The school, which caters for an estimated 500 pupils from internally
displaced camps within Mogadishus Wadajir district, was built with
support from AMISOM.

The projects improve the lives of those who are affected by the war
in the hope that these (projects) will move quickly to cause
reconciliation and stabilization of populations, Amb. Madeira said,
while appealing to the African Union to facilitate funding for such
projects.

SRCC Madeira noted that beyond enabling the return of peace to

Somalia, AMISOM was keen to offer support to the Federal
Government of Somalia, in the provision of social services to needy
populations, in areas such as health and education, because they
are critical to the peace process.

AMISOM has undertaken a wide range of Quick Impact Projects in

different regions of Somalia, including the South West, Hiiraan and
Jubbaland states, as well as the towns of Barawe and Dhobley. The
projects include schools rehabilitation, construction of hospitals and
police stations.

AMISOM is a mission with a comprehensive mandate. We do

military, we do police, we do ideological narrative, we do education,
we capacitate administrations, SRCC Madeira, who is also the Head
of AMISOM emphasised.
He said AMISOM was currently looking to implement these projects
in coordination with the UN, because that will be a multiplier of
capacities and potential.

We felt that the (AU) Peace and Security Council should come and
see this other side of our effort, not just the war effort.

SRCC Madeira commended the teachers of Ali Haji School for their
sacrifices and contribution to the countrys transformation.

You are doing a very wonderful job and you have to continue. We
know that you are doing it in very difficult conditions, but you must
continue and tell these young teachers that they are doing good
things for their own country, he stated.

The visiting delegation also toured the Mogadishu Airport Police

station built with support from AMISOM.

Following their engagement with different stakeholders, the

delegation who are on an assessment mission in Somalia, will make
recommendations to the AU, which will determine further support to
AMISOM and the Somalia peace process.

END.