STORY: INTERIM SOUTH WEST REGION

RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE
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LANGUAGE: SOMALI/NATS
DATELINE: 27 JANUARY, 2015, AFGOYE, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST
1. Medium shot; Interim South West Administration (ISWA) flag and the
Somali national flag.
2. Wide-shot; President of the Interim South West Administration
(ISWA) Sharif Sheikh Adan arriving to attend the conference.
3. Medium shot; conference banner.
4. Close up shot; participants at the conference.
5. Wide shot; clan leaders speaking during the conference.
6. Close up shot; participant speaking.
7. Medium shot; participants during the conference.
8. Close up shot; journalists covering the event.
9. Close up shot; ISWA President Sharif Sheikh Adan.
10.
Close up shot; participants during the reconciliation
conference.
11.
Wide shot; ISWA President Sharif Sheikh Adan and members of
his administration.
12.
Medium shot; signing of the agreement.
13.
Close up shot; participants observing.
14.
Close up shot; Somali female TV journalist covering the event.
15.
Medium shot; signing of the agreement.
16.
Wide shot; the two clans joining hands with the ISWA President
in celebration.
17.
Medium shot; President Sharif Sheikh Adan addressing the
participants.
18.
Wide shot; clan members listening to President Sharif Sheikh
Adan.
19.
Close up shot; clan elder listening.
20.
Wide shot; clan elders listening.
21.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) SHARIF SHEIKH ADAN, PRESIDENT,
INTERIM SOUTH WEST ADMINISTRATION:

This country needs peace, projects and reconstruction, health

centres, schools and universities. So instead of thinking about
clan wars, let us think of how to build universities, how to
teach people and how to create health centres. The Interim
South West Administration is committed to working with the
central government, the international community and AMISOM
forces.
22.
Medium shot; participants.
23.
Medium shot; Abdulkadir Nur Arale, Ministry of Reconciliation
and Constitutional Affairs, Interim South West Administration
addressing the participants.
24.
Close up shot; Abdulkadir Nur Arale.
25.
Close up shot; ISWA President Sharif Sheikh Adan listening.
26.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) ABDULKADIR NUR ARALE, MINISTER OF
RECONCILIATION AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, INTERIM SOUTH
WEST ADMINISTRATION:
Today, we have succeeded in bringing together the two
warring clans in Lower Shabelle region face-to-face; with the
presence of high level officials from the Interim South West
Administration, the central government and the international
community. They have signed an agreement committing to
long lasting peace and forgiving each other.
27.
Medium shot; the two clan members embracing each other.

STORY
As part of its commitment to bringing an end to inter-clan fighting in
Merca, the Interim South West Administration (ISWA) successfully
convened a reconciliation conference in Afgoye for the Biyamaal and
Habar-Gidir clans in Somalias Lower Shabelle region (27/1/2015).
Over the past two years, more than 70 people have been killed and
hundreds injured as militias associated with the two clans battled it
out for political power and control over resources. The fighting has
left hundreds of families displaced, leading to insecurity, with illegal
roadblocks springing up all over the region.
Speaking during the conference, Sharif Hasan Sheikh Adan,
President of the Interim South West Administration, appealed for all
clan leaders to work towards ensuring stability in Somalia.
This country needs peace, projects and reconstruction, health
centres, schools and universities. So instead of thinking about clan

wars, let us think of how to build universities, how to teach people

and how to build health centres. The Interim South West
Administration is always committed to working in collaboration with
the central government, the international community and AMISOM
forces, he said.
The ISWA Minister of Reconciliation and Constitutional Affairs,
Abdulkadir Nur Arale, also said that the Conference was a major
milestone for the region and country.
Today, we have succeeded in bringing together the two warring
clans in Lower Shabelle region face-to-face; in the presence of high
level officials from the Interim South West Administration, the
central government and the international community. They have
signed an agreement committing to long lasting peace and to
forgiving each other, he said.
In the lead up to elections in 2016, as part of the New Deal
Compact, Somalias roadmap for recovery, reconciliation remains a
priority.