STORY: AU, UN and Somali Federal Government hold

crisis meeting on Mogadishu bomb attack

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DATELINE: 25/OCTOBER/2017, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, a joint crisis management team meeting to take stock of the 14th
bomb attack
2. Med shot, banner
3. Close up shot, United States soldiers attending the meeting
4. Med shot, senior AMISOM and UN military and police officers at the meeting
5. Med shot, AMISOM Sector One Commander, Brig. General Kayanja Muhanga and
the Somalia National Army commander, at the meeting
6. Close up shot, Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African
Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia, Simon Mulongo, speaking at the meeting
7. Med shot, DSRCC Simon Mulongo speaking at the meeting
8. Close up shot, Maj. Gen. Abdiweli Jama Hussein, Somali National Army (SNA)
Commander listening
9. Close up shot, Raisedon Zenenga, Deputy Special Representative of the UN
Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia listening
10. Close up shot, UN Police Commissioner, Christoph Buik, listening at the meeting
11. Close up shot, a senior Somali Police Force officer at the meeting
12. Close up shot, banner
13. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Simon Mulongo; Deputy Special Representative of the
Chairperson of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia
The meeting has agreed on putting in place some mitigating measures of better
response in future. So we have a technical team that is going to work out more
details in terms of sequence and form of response and how quickly that response
can be, and secondly, we shall have our efforts coordinated in a manner that is more
orderly and ensure that command and control issues are properly fleshed out. We
have also agreed to have a standing team in support of the Federal Government
institutions to ensure that incase of any incident in future, we are able to respond in
a much more able way.

14. Med shot, Maj. Gen. Abdiweli Jama Hussein, Somali National Army (SNA)
Commander talking to DSRCC Simon Mulongo and Deputy Special Representative of
the UN-Secretary General (DSRSG) for Somalia Raisedon Zenenga
15. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Simon Mulongo; Deputy Special Representative of the
Chairperson of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia
We have of course agreed on some measures which I cannot elaborate here but
which will ensure that we deny the enemy (Al-Shabaab) freedom of organization and
freedom of action. Those measures are much more elaborate and they are going to
be elaborated on more as we go by.

16. Wide shot, DSRSG Zenenga speaking at the meeting

17. Med shot, DSRSG Zenenga speaking at the meeting
18. Close up shot, DSRCC Mulongo listening
19. Wide shot, Somali Police Force and AMISOM military officers listening
20. Close up shot, a senior Somali government official at the meeting
21. Close up shot, a UN senior staff listening
22. Med shot, a UNDP officer at the meeting
23. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Raisedon Zenenga; Deputy Special Representative of
the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia
Now that the recovery operations are over and we are in the period of
reconstruction and rebuilding, the main task falls on our UNDP (United Nations
Development Programme) and UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services)
colleagues who are helping the government to assess the structural damage to the
remaining buildings and what can be done to reconstruct the buildings and also to
build the capacity that has been lost in the adjacent ministries, but going forward,
also help build the capacity to respond in future which is more important.

24. Wide shot, Maj. Gen. Abdiweli Jama Hussein, SNA commander speaking at the
meeting
25. Med shot, a senior Somali police officer listening
26. Close up shot, Maj. Gen. Abdiweli Jama Hussein, SNA commander speaking
27. Med shot, UNDP officials listening
28. Med shot, soldiers listening
29. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI) Maj. Gen. Abdiweli Jama Hussein; Somali National Army
(SNA) Commander
There are a lot of challenges that need to be addressed at the moment which
requires us to be united. We have to move forward and that means you have to do
your part. We need the support of the international community to find solutions to
these issues.

30. Wide shot, a joint crisis management team meeting to take stock of the 14th
October bomb attack

AU, UN and Somali Federal Government hold crisis meeting on Mogadishu bomb
attack

Mogadishu, 26 October 2017 - A crisis meeting bringing together the African Union
(AU), United Nations (UN), the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and other key
stakeholders to review the recent bomb attack in the Somali capital, Mogadishu,
yesterday agreed on key measures aimed at deterring future attacks.

The Joint Crisis Management Team meeting, organized by the African Union Mission
in Somalia (AMISOM), was attended by senior UN officials led by the Deputy Special
Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia, Raisedon Zenenga,
and top FGS security chiefs, including the new Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Maj.
Gen. Abdiweli Jama Hussein.

Speaking after the meeting, the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of
the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia, Simon Mulongo, noted that the
consultation was meant to avert and mitigate future incidents, through improved
security and enhanced coordination.

The meeting has agreed on putting in place some mitigating measures of better
response in future. We have a technical team that is going to work out more details
in terms of sequence and form of response and how quickly that response can be,
and secondly, we shall have our efforts coordinated in a manner that is more orderly
and ensure that command and control issues are properly fleshed out, Mr. Mulongo
explained, adding that the meeting also agreed to have a standby team to respond
to future incidents.

The DSRCC added that the meeting had agreed on measures to ensure the enemy,
Al-Shabaab, is denied the freedom of organizing and instigating attacks against
innocent civilians.

On October 14, 2017, terrorists detonated a huge Vehicle-Borne Improvised

Explosive Device (VBIED) at a busy junction in Mogadishu, killing more than 300
people and injuring many more. AMISOM and UN joined hands in organizing a
search and rescue operation and also offering other forms of aid to the Federal
Government of Somalia.

In his remarks, DSRSG Zenenga observed that though the meeting will take stock of
the incident, there is need to focus on post blast initiatives.

Now that the recovery operations are over and we are in the period of
reconstruction and rebuilding, the main task falls on our UNDP (United Nations
Development Programme) and UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services)
colleagues who are helping the government to assess the structural damage to the
remaining buildings and what can be done to reconstruct the buildings and also to
build the capacity that has been lost in the adjacent ministries, the DSRSG
observed.

Going forward, Mr. Zenenga said, there was need to help build the capacity of the
Federal Government to effectively respond to crisis caused by acts of terror and
other factors.
The CDF of the Somali National Army (SNA), Maj. Gen. Abdiweli Jama Hussein, who
represented the Minister of Defence, hailed the international community for the
swift response in the aftermath of the incident but noted that a lot still remains to
be done and appealed for more support.

There are a lot of challenges that need to be addressed at the moment which
requires us to be united. We have to move forward and that means you have to do
your part. We need the support of the international community to find solutions to
these issues, Maj. Gen. Abdiweli stated. Ends