Premier Geedi appoints Committee to address Flooding

[NASSIR]

Premier appoints committee to address flooding

 

Baidabo, Nov 19(Dhahar)-The prime minister of the interim Somali government has appointed an eight-member committee to address the flooding of some regions in Somalia following bursting of the banks of Shabeelle and Jubba rivers. Shadiya Muhumed Abdi has the details:

 

 

The committee which is in charge of the flooding of the rivers and their effects named by the prime minister of the interim Somali government Prof Ali Muhammad Gedi, is headed by the Interior minister and deputy premier, Engineer Husayn Muhammad Aydid. The committee also included the ministers of agriculture of the interim Somali government Abdiqadir Nur Arale, Health minister Abdiaziz Shaykh Yusuf and some other assistant ministers and state ministers.

 

 

The spokesman of the interim Somali government, Abdirahman Nur Muhammad Dinari said the government was responsible for promoting the interest of all the Somali people. And the government was accountable.

 

 

The functions of the committee are unknown because most of the regions affected by the flooding are controlled by the Union of the Islamic Courts which is greatly opposed to the interim Somali government. The appointment comes at a time when the Union Islamic Courts have appointed a 15-member committee in Mogadishu to assess the damage caused by flooding of the rivers.

 

Dhahar Online

[Che -Guevara]

The functions of the committee are unknown because most of the regions affected by the flooding are controlled by the Union of the Islamic Courts which is greatly opposed to the interim Somali government. The appointment comes at a time when the Union Islamic Courts have appointed a 15-member committee in Mogadishu to assess the damage caused by flooding of the rivers.

Looool...da gov is being out-foxed everytime. And why bother with something you could hardly do anything about?

[NASSIR]

It shows care and concern.

[Somali_Friend]

Che-Guevara,

 

I am afraid you missed one important point. The UN, ICRC etc agencies have had discussions with the TFG, even knowing full well that some of the territories most affected are under SSICU control.

Every international official or agency, any foreign dignitary doesn't just fly even to Mugadishu without informing the TFG.

 

Actually the SSICU now has to change all its ways of working with western agencies and work the way the TFG wants it to. No other option unless the SSICU wants expelled for preventing aid agencies.

[Che -Guevara]

Originally posted by Caamir:

It shows care and concern.

LooooL...right

 

 

Somali-Friend.....LooL@ da nick, If the so called international community is truely honest about aiding the flooded regions, they need to be pragmatic, and quit appeasing the useless TFG.

[NASSIR]

Good point Somali-Friend

[Somali_Friend]

Che-Guevara,

Here comes proof for the point I was trying to explain. The UN will deal first with TFG regardless where the work is to be done. The TFG can at the very least contact local elders and leaders and intermediaries even in SSICU controlled areas. Its almost impossible to do the other way around.

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UN relief officers arrive in Baidoa as floods effect fresh areas in Somalia

 

Aweys Osman Yusuf

 

Mogadishu 23, Nov.06 ( Sh.M.Network) -A plane carrying UN officers has landed at an airstrip in Baidoa, a temporary headquarter for the UN-backed government.

 

The officers, who have met with the Somali cabinet ministers, have indicated they came to Somalia to asses the humanitarian aid needs in the country where the worst floods are stilling having devastating impact on the livelihood of over one million pastoral communities.

 

Khad, a local popular narcotic leaf, which was banned by the Union of Islamic Courts in all areas it administers, has not arrived today in Baidoa where the Khad was available following the ban.

 

The Islamic Courts in Baledweyne have seized sacks full of Khad reportedly brought from Ethiopia after smugglers attempted to transport the Khad into Hiran province, central Somalia, by means of donkey carts.

 

The Courts authorities in the area pointed out they caught three sacks full of Khad, which they said, would be set on fire in a matter of time.

 

Huge tones of Khad worth thousands of dollars were burnt since Islamist officially announced the ban on Khad.

 

In some areas under Islamist control, smoking was also prohibited.

 

 

The latest floods in Somalia is triggering an alarming humanitarian plight as fresh areas began to be submerged by the water floods that have already claimed the lives of number of people and animals in villages in central and southern Somalia.

 

The arrival of UN assessing team followed a visit paid in the Islamists administered areas in southern Somalia by UN security officer Chris Mores who convened with senior Islamists over the disastrous floods in Somalia on 20 November.

 

The torrential rains in Somalia are the worst in fifty years, experts say, causing many families to be stranded on trees or their home shelter roofs.

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Caamir,

Thank you.

[RedSea]

Originally posted by Caamir:

It shows care and concern.

Oh please brotha,waa sidee bariisna cuntaye.