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A two-day training workshop for Somali journalists on election reporting ended today and participants said they felt better prepared to cover the country’s upcoming electoral process.
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Michael Keating, receives the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Helen Clark, upon her arrival at Aden Abdulle Airport in Mogadishu on 24 August 2016. UN Photo
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark today described the country as being “at a good turning point” during her visit to the Somali capital.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) has embarked on a countrywide series of training workshops for local journalists on the forthcoming electoral process in Somalia.
Author of The Mayor of Mogadishu, Andrew Harding, speaks at the British Embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia, for an event to launch his book, The Mayor of Mogadishu, on 20 August 2016. UN Photo
A veteran British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) correspondent launched a new book about Somalia at a ceremony held at the British Embassy in Mogadishu on Saturday as the Somali capital’s second annual book fair came to a close.
Members of the State Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (SIEIT) at a briefing on the process for the forthcoming elections on 16 August 2016 in Mogadishu, Somalia. UN Photo
The bodies formed to implement Somalia’s 2016 electoral process at the state and regional levels received an in-depth briefing on the process from the Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (FIEIT) during three days of meetings in Mogadishu this week.
Ahmed during the vocational training at the Rehabilitation Center in Baidoa
Thirty-one-year-old Ahmed (not his real name) joined Al-Shabaab because he needed an income. It was a decision, he says, he will forever regret.
German delegates and other guests at the Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration Center graduation ceremony for former Al-Shabaab combatants, in Baidoa.
Thirty former Al-Shabaab combatants have graduated from the Baidoa Rehabilitation Centre in South West State of Somalia after completing an intensive rehabilitation programme.
A new political drama aimed at encouraging women’s participation in politics is up and running on various radio stations in Somalia.
Members of the Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team, at their first press conference on 1 August 2016 in Mogadishu, Somalia. UN Photo
Members of the Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (FIEIT) have assured the public that they will carry out their assignment with impartiality to ensure the electoral process is successful.Omar Mohamed Abdulle ‘Dhagey’, the chairman of the FIEIT, made the undertaking during a media br
Goodwill Ambassador Fatima Abdi Warsame advocating for 30 per cent of seats to be reserved for women representatives in both houses of Somalia's next federal parliament.
At only twenty-five years of age, Fatima Abdi Warsame is at the helm of an organization that mobilizes young people to start projects that enhance their status in society.