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European Union Training Mission Somalia European Union Training Mission Somalia PRESS SUMMARY 22nd June 2018 “In ‘Media’ stat virtus” EUTM - SOMALIA 22/06/2018 Somali president joins regional leaders in search for peace in South Sudan MOGADISHU, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi (Farmajo) left the country on Thursday for Ethiopia to join other East African leaders to help shore up South Sudan peace process. A statement from the presidency said Farmajo was due to attend an extra-ordinary Inter- Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) summit in Addis Ababa that will review the progress made in the South Sudan peace process. South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar arrived in Ethiopia on Wednesday for a meeting with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, as part of efforts to try to broker a deal to end the nation's civil conflict. Officials said the two leaders later held talks in Addis Ababa on Wednesday evening for the first time in two years. Details of the Wednesday meeting were not divulged. IGAD is an eight-member economic bloc that brings together Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/21/c_137271602.htm EUTM - SOMALIA 1 EUTM - SOMALIA 22/06/2018 Farmajo jets off to Addis Ababa for an extra-ordinary IGAD summit June 21, 2018 - Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo left Mogadishu for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital on Thursday morning, his office has confirmed. According to a statement released by Villa Somalia, President Farmajo is expected to attend an extra-ordinary IGAD summit in Addis Ababa that will focus on South Sudan crisis. The president will join the leaders from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in the summit to seek a lasting solution for Africa’s youngest nation, South Sudan. On the sidelines of the summit, president Farmajo is likely to hold separate meetings with the heads of IGAD member states in Addis Ababa. On Wednesday, South Sudan President Salva Kiir and SPLM-IO leader Riek Machar met on Wednesday in Addis Ababa, in a meeting attended by the Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed. The meeting between Kiir and his former vice president becomes the first in two years since the peace deal between the two sides fell apart in August 2016. http://radioshabelle.com/farmajo-jets-off-to-addis-ababa-for-an-extra-ordinary-igad- summit/ EUTM - SOMALIA 2 EUTM - SOMALIA 22/06/2018 Somalia: PM Says No Deal Reached With Ethiopia On Seaports Photo: Radio Shabelle Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmajo" Mohamed The Somali government has not signed an official trade agreement with its neighbouring Ethiopian government, Somali Prime Minister said on Wednesday. Following the one-day visit of Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed to Mogadishu, there were speculations that Somali leaders handed over the country's main ports to Ethiopia, a landlocked country which lost its ports after Eritrea broke away. Speaking to Somali Diaspora in Norway, Somali Prime minister Hassan Ali Kheire said the two countries reached a memorandum of understanding on trade cooperation. "In recent past days, we have been receiving reports claiming that Somalia signed an agreement with Ethiopia. We did not sign a deal with Ethiopia," said Kheire, " After the visit of Ethiopian Prime Minister, we jointly issued a communiqué on creation cooperation between the two countries and to allow them (Ethiopia) to use our ports." The PM affirmed that government will never accept any deal violating the country's sovereignty. "The country's ports belong to Somali people, we will never allow anybody to take them, we urge the public not to be misled," the prime minister said. EUTM - SOMALIA 3 EUTM - SOMALIA 22/06/2018 President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed on Saturday pledged to cooperate on several issues including the development of infrastructure and expanding visa services to promote cultural exchanges. Speaking to the media after the visit, Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed said the main objective of the meeting was to end the history of war, violence between the two nations. "We need to forget the past, for how long we will keep on recalling our worst part of our history, let us what happened in the past and focus on the present," he noted. http://allafrica.com/stories/201806210574.html EUTM - SOMALIA 4 EUTM - SOMALIA 22/06/2018 Somaliland says Ethio-Somalia Port agreement is not pertinent WEDNESDAY Somaliland says that the recent joint agreement aimed at developing ports which Ethiopia and Somalia leaders has nothing to do with Somaliland. This was disclosed by Somaliland foreign affairs and international cooperation minister, Dr. Sa’ad Ali Shire in an interview with Somali BBC services. The leaders of Ethiopia and Somalia stressed that both sides must respect the sovereignty and unity of both countries and SL FM said that it does not concern on somaliland as they were talking about not violating their borders. The FM of Somaliland added that administering Somaliland ports is not a business for Farmajo as he has no control over them. Once asked if Somaliland asked Ethiopia to provide details of the agreement, Mr. Sa’ad said that there is no point of urgency but we will wait and see. Somaliland authority has taken a hard stance on the recent joint agreement reached by Ethiopia and Somalia to developed four key ports in Somalia. It is not clear if Ethiopia has revoked its treaty with Somaliland which acquired shares in the development of Berbera port which Ethiopia, a landlocked country signed the deal with Dubai Ports World. Somalland is self declared state which broke away from Somalia in 1991 but the int’l community turned a blind eye to grant a recognition as an independent state. https://www.somaliaonline.com/community/topic/102963-somaliland-says-ethio-somalia- port-agreement-is-not-pertinent/ EUTM - SOMALIA 5 EUTM - SOMALIA 22/06/2018 Ethiopia: Dire Dawa calls Somali region president to step down (June 21, 2018) - Residents of Dire Dawa, a city in Eastern Ethiopia, demand in a demonstration that the president of the Somali region step down, accusing Abdi Mohamud Omar’s administration of instigating conflict among different groups, and of corruption. The campaign against Abdi Mohamud Omar, who also goes by Abdi Illey, began two months ago when residents in 11 zones in the Somali region began taking to the streets to vent their anger against the president, whom they said has brought a reign of injustice, corruption and lack of peace. Residents of the town who spoke to ESAT say the federal government should intervene to stop the regional president’s misrule. Abdi Illey, who is president for the last 10 years, has been accused of having close ties to army generals who run contraband trade in the Somali region. Protest against the president began two months ago when he fired his entire cabinet members and replace them with members of his clan and in-laws. https://ethsat.com/2018/06/ethiopia-dire-dawa-calls-somali-region-president-to-step- down/ EUTM - SOMALIA 6 EUTM - SOMALIA 22/06/2018 Somalia’s prime minister met with Erna Solberg Prime Minister Erna Solberg meets Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire. Victoria Garza 21. June 2018 Somalia’s Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire is in Norway and met both Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) and Development Minister Nikolai Astrup (H) on Wednesday. This is the second time Hassan Ali Khaire meets Norway’s prime minister as they met in a bilateral meeting in Davos, Switzerland when Erna Solberg attended a meeting at the World Economic Forum. On Tuesday, Khaire promised that the country will investigate closer to the disclosure that Norwegian Somali children are sent to Koran schools in Somalia where they are subjected to abuse and severely punishment. He then said that Somali authorities had already started investigations. Khaire and a Somali delegation with several government members are in Oslo in connection with the International Conference Oslo Forum, which is organized at Losby Gods. The Oslo Forum Conference is one of the foremost meeting places in the world for facilitators, peacekeepers, top politicians and other actors from peace processes and conflict resolution. Hassan Ali Khaire is a Norwegian citizen since 1989 when he, himself came to Norway as a refugee. In February last year he was appointed prime minister of Somalia. http://norwaytoday.info/news/somalias-prime-minister-met-erna-solberg/ EUTM - SOMALIA 7 EUTM - SOMALIA 22/06/2018 Former Somali president calls for ceasefire in Tukaraq June 21, 2018 Former Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called for an immediate end to the fighting between Puntland and the breakaway region of Somaliland in Tukaraq village. Mohamud urged the warring sides halt the bloodshed, withdraw the troops from the battle zones in Sool region and engage in talks to solve the conflict. The former leader asked the local elders, traders and intellectuals to contribute to the peace efforts aimed at halting the escalating tension in the region. Somaliland and Puntland are both pointing fingers at the other for starting latest fighting which claimed the lives of the dozens of people and forced families to flee their house. The tension is still as both sides reportedly employed light and heavy guns near Tukaraq District, about 1,100km northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Somaliland and Puntland have hand long-standing border disputes, particularly over Sool and Sanaag regions that separate them. Somaliland has declared independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991 but has since failed to win international recognition. Puntland was established as a semi-autonomous authority in 1998 but remains a member state of the federal government of Somalia.
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