STORY:AMISOM trains Somali officials in rehabilitation of

ex-combatants
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DATELINE: 09/DECEMBER/2019, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, participants taking part in the combatants rehabilitation

workshop
2. Med shot, participants taking part in the combatants rehabilitation
workshop
3. Med shot, Mohamed Ali Hussein, the Director of the Defector Rehabilitation
Programme in the Ministry of Internal Security addressing participants
during the combatants rehabilitation workshop
4. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) SIMON MULONGO, DEPUTY SPECIAL
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE AFRICAN UNION
COMMISSION (DSRCC) FOR SOMALIA
“You should take this issue of managing of disengaged combatants seriously
because it’s in your national interest to end the violence, convince everyone
who may be tempted to join violence to come back and give the idea to
leave it or abandon it so that you can work together with everyone in this
country to rebuild and make Somalia to rise and shine again a giant of this
region.”

5. Close up shot, the Chief of the Somali Military Tribunal, Colonel Hassan Ali
Nur Shuute, listening during the function
6. Wide shot, Mohamed Ali Hussein, the Director of the Defector Rehabilitation
Programme at the Ministry of Internal Security addressing participants
during the combatants rehabilitation programme
7. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) FADIL KARRAR, AMISOM CIVIL AFFAIRS OFFICER
“The defector programme have their national strategy and they have their
own action plan which they wanted to share it with the rest of the
government officials, relevant ministries in order to raise their awareness and
engagement.”

8. Close up shot, AMISOM Civil Affairs Officer, Fadil Karrar listening during the
function
 9. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI) MOHAMED ALI HUSSEIN, DIRECTOR OF THE
DEFECTOR REHABILITATION PROGRAMME AT THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL
SECURITY
“The national rehabilitation is a programme intended to rehabilitate ex-
combatants from Al-Shabaab; with a view of giving them a second chance at
a normal life and reproach themselves for their wrongdoing.”

10. Med shot, participants taking part in the combatants rehabilitation

workshop
11. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI) HASSAN ALI NUR SHUUTE, CHIEF OF THE SOMALI
MILITARY TRIBUNAL
“I urge the Somali Police Force station commanders not to harbor ex-
combatants in their respective districts without passing through the
rehabilitation process.”

12. Med shot, the Chief of the Somali Military Tribunal, Colonel Hassan Ali
shaking hands with AMISOM Civil Affairs Officer, Fadil Karrar at the close of
the event

AMISOM trains Somali officials in rehabilitation of ex-combatants

Mogadishu 11, December 2019 – The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)
has conducted training for Somali government officials involved in the management
and rehabilitation of ex-combatants.

About 80 officials drawn from Somali state agencies that handle rehabilitation of
former combatants, attended the two-day training programme in Mogadishu
organised by the AMISOM Civil Affairs Unit.

The participants sought to share best practices and challenges of the Defector
Rehabilitation Programme and how to forge ahead.

Speaking at the training, the Deputy Head of AMISOM, Simon Mulongo, emphasised
AMISOM's commitment to supporting the Federal Government of Somalia to
rehabilitate former combatants.

"It should be in the national interest to end violence. Whoever wants to join violence
should abandon the idea, return and work to make Somalia rise and shine again as a
giant of the region," Mulongo told participants.

According to the AMISOM Civil Affairs Officer, Fadil Karrar, the training was to
enhance the capacity of the Defector Rehabilitation Programme for government
officials, ministries, agencies, and security forces.

"The Defector Rehabilitation Programme has a national strategy and action plan for
government officials, and the line ministries, to improve engagement and
collaboration," Fadil noted.
The Director of the Defector Rehabilitation Programme in Somalia's Ministry of
Internal Security, Mohamed Ali Hussein, said the programme complements the
President's stand to offer amnesty to those that renounce violence.

"The national rehabilitation programme gives a second chance to ex-combatants

from extremist groups like Al-Shabaab, enabling them to be remorseful and seek
forgiveness," said the director, Mohamed.

He emphasised that AMISOM is a crucial partner in providing training, equipment

and resourcing for the rehabilitation of former combatants – an integral part of the
National Programme for the treatment and handling of disengaged combatants in
Somalia.

The chief of Somalia's military tribunal, Col. Hassan Ali Nur Shuute, said that any ex-
combatant that does not undergo rehabilitation is still an enemy.

"I urge all Police station commanders not to harbour ex-combatants in their
respective districts without notifying the appropriate authorities for them to
undergo rehabilitation," said Col. Shuute.
ENDS