STORY: AU Keen On Resolving Logistical Challenges Facing

Its Mission in Somalia

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DATELINE: 21/JUNE/2018, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, Participants from AMISOM Troop and Police Contributing Countries,
United nations and international partners attend a meeting on logistical support for
AMISOM in Mogadishu
2. Close up shot, Simon Mulongo, Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson
of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia and Deputy Head of AMISOM
at the meeting
3. Med shot, Lt. Gen. Jim Beesigye Owoyesigire, AMISOM Force Commander and
Christine Alalo, Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner taking notes at the meeting
4. Med shot, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, Special Representative for Chairperson
of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia and Head of the AU Mission in
Somalia (AMISOM) speaking at the opening
5. Wide shot, participants listening
6. Med shot, senior AMISOM officers listening
7. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Ambassador Francisco Madeira, Special Representative
of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia
“The primary objective of this workshop is to identify AMISOM mission support
challenges across the strategic, operational and tactical levels. You will then be able
to come up with recommendations on how the AU (African Union) and UN (United
Nations) can harmonize and enhance joint planning, improve on provision and
delivery of logistics and generate service support to AMISOM, based on a common
understanding of the AU and UN support policies, guidelines and procedures.”

8. Med shot, participants listening

9. Close up shot, a senior AMISOM official listening
10. Close up shot, SRCC Ambassador Madeira listening
11. Med shot participants taking notes
12. Med shot, SRCC Ambassador Madeira and Lisa Filipetto, the Head of the United
Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS)
13. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Col (Rtd) Mor Mbow, Chief of Mission Support at the
African Union Commission
“Today we want to look into key challenges and key issues and clearly indicate what
stakeholders need to do to help enhance the support package to AMISOM.”

14. Close up shot, Lisa Filipetto, Head of UNSOS listening

15. Med shot, Maj. Gen. Lakara Nakibus attending the meeting
16. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Col (Rtd) Mor Mbow, Chief of Mission Support at the
African Union Commission
“This support to AMISOM is not only an UNSOS (United Nations Support Office in
Somalia) responsibility. Troop Contributing Countries have responsibilities; the
contingents that have been deployed have responsibilities. AU as strategic
headquarters have responsibilities and UN of course, being a major partner has
responsibilities. So we want to see how these stakeholders together will be able to
enhance the support.”

17. Close up shot, a participant listening

18. Med shot, Lt. Gen. Jim Beesigye Owoyesigire, AMISOM Force Commander
listening
19. Close up shot, participants listening
20. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Lisa Filipetto, Head of the United Nations Support
Office in Somalia (UNSOS)
“UNSOS welcomes this review. We believe that this is such an important partnership
that we need to get it right. We won’t get it perfect but continuous improvement is
always very important.”

21. Med shot, AMISOM senior military officer taking notes

22. Med shot, participants listening
23. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Lisa Filipetto, Head of the United Nations Support
Office in Somalia (UNSOS)
“I really want to acknowledge the role of AMISOM. They have been many years in
providing that stability and in making the sacrifice which they have and we all share
the sorrow of those sacrifices.”

24. Wide shot, participants leaving after the opening

Story

AU Keen On Resolving Logistical Challenges Facing Its Mission in Somalia

Mogadishu, 21 June 2018 - A delegation from the Addis Ababa based African Union
Peace Support Operations Division (AUPSOD), is in Somalia to assess the nature of
logistical support given to the AU Mission by its partners.

The team will hold deliberations in the capital Mogadishu, to flesh out issues
regarding logistics support to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), and
propose recommendations, that will boost the Mission’s activities in the Horn of
Africa country.
 “We want to look into key challenges and key issues and clearly indicate what
stakeholders need to do to help enhance the support package to AMISOM,” Col.
(Rtd) Mor Mbow, the Chief of Mission Support at the African Union Commission, and
leader of the AU delegation said in his opening remarks earlier today.
Mbor emphasized that the aim of the deliberations was to come up with ways of
enhancing logistical support to AMISOM, to enable the Mission better secure
Somalia.

“This support to AMISOM is not only an UNSOS responsibility. Troop Contributing

Countries have responsibilities; the contingents that have been deployed have
responsibilities. AU as strategic headquarters have responsibilities and UN of course,
being a major partner has responsibilities,” Col. Mbow stated.

The two-day high-level consultative talks is expected to come up with detailed

recommendations that will address critical logistical support issues in the short,
medium and long term.

“The primary objective of this workshop is to identify AMISOM mission support

challenges across the strategic, operational and tactical levels,” explained
Ambassador Francisco Caetano Jose Madeira, the AU Special Representative for
Somalia and Head of AMISOM.

The meeting, Madeira noted, will also come up with recommendations on how the
AU and UN can harmonize and enhance joint planning, improve on provision and
delivery of logistics and generate service support to AMISOM.

In her remarks, the Head of UNSOS, Ms. Lisa Filipetto reiterated UNSOS’
commitment to providing the required logistical support, to enable AMISOM fulfil its
mandate effectively. UNSOS is mandated by the UN Security Council to provide
logistical support to AMISOM and to the Somali security forces during joint
operations with AMISOM.

“UNSOS welcomes this review. We believe that this is such an important partnership
that we need to get it right. We won’t get it perfect but continuous improvement is
always very important,” she observed, while acknowledging the achievements
AMISOM has made in Somalia’s stabilization.

Representatives of Troop and Police Contributing Countries to AMISOM, senior

AMISOM and UN officials, among them, the AMISOM Force Commander, Lt. Gen.
Jim Beesigye Owoyesigire and the Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner, Christine
Alalo, are attending the consultative meeting.

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