MONTHLY SOCIAL BULLETIN
VOL: 12 ISSUE: 124
MARCH 2020
Editorial IJ Inclusive Journal Somalia is social bulletin that service local news update for the community based works and other intervention depicting the true image of the grass roots level achievement in the country. Through mainstreaming disability people work on the ground in the country A journal invented by schools and professional social work in Somalia who gathers the important information that derive to published online and offline bulletin monthly issued the end of every month The editor’s main focus is the project the best work on the ground in the country and note the best actions of the good actors serving in the public. As well as the bad actors who deserve to marked in red type where they eye will see the rights from the wrong. Finally our efforts service inclusive for all public and private work from the grass root level in the society to the political level for the disabled people protection and participation.
Message of the president Somalia Federal Government president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo message to the Cvodi19. The president taking care of the nationwide Somalia People send three times warning message the awareness of the society and prevention steps against the disease devastated the people in the world. Stay at home; clean your hands or cough elbow stretched with protection sheet or Catton
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COVID 19 CASE FOUND IN SOMALIA TECHNICAL VOCATION SKILLS TRAINING
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CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITAL IN BARAWE
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ILLEGAL FEMALE CIRCUMCISION IN KENYA
PARALYMPIC GAMES IN MOGADISHU CLOSURE OF QURANIC SCHOOL IN SOMALIA COMMEMORATION OF IWD 8 MARCH 2020 SOMALIA DEBT RELIEF
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COVID 19 CASE FOUND IN SOMALIA
The federal government of Somalia ministry of health official issued press statement confirming new case for covid 19 found in Mogadishu 16 march2020. The persons who come from abroad was quarantine in isolated place made for the victim of the covid 19 care and treatment
treatment of the covid 19 in Somalia. Somalia federal government has allocated 5 million dollar to support the anticovid 19 work coordination Somalia prime minister and president has also issue before warning message to the nationwide Somalia for the alert of new subsection cases found in the airport.
There has been other suspected cases found before, the WHO has assured that Somalia has no any medical proofed covid 19 so far. This will make the situation of the country very hard when the disease reach on the ground in Somalia An airplane carrying medical consignment landed in Mogadishu two days ago from the Alibaba company medical aid for the prevention and
Somalia government banned all flight coming outside the country mainly from the countries member of the victim covid 19. Although there has been humanitarian travels ease for emergency purposes as the ministry of the air transportation Somalia has registered nearly persons 5 case proofed while more than ten persons under quarantine waiting the result of their test TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING On Thursday 05 February 2020 Graduation and project closure ceremony is held in Galkacyo for the closure of the technical vocational skills training project implemented GOWDO Galmudug women disability organization. The project is benefited by 20 disability people 10 female and 10 male The project is funded by the Abilis foundation and implemented by the GAWDO with support of the Galkacyo town local authority who has made support for the encouragement the success of the project and beneficiary people
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CONSTRUCTION OF A HEALTH CARE FACILITY IN BARAWE TOWN On 05 March 2020 the first lady of Somalia and the president of the Southwest Somalia Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagreyn jointly put the foundation stone for health care facility Barawe town official capital city of the southwest Somalia about 500 km southwest Somalia from Mogadishu. Saynab Abdi Moallin the first lady of Somalia said the health care facility Barawe town will be constructed soon and will serve the nation particularly the women and children in the lower Shabelle region who have problems for medical service in the region PARALYMPIC GAME HELD IN MOGADISHU
ILLEGAL FEMALE CIRCUMCISION IN KENYA Every day some young girls are circumcised in small home underground located Eastleigh district Nairobi the capital city Kenya a country that has banned the FGM in 2011 officially. Most of them Somalia young girls from abroad in the western countries. The parents of the victim girls bring their doughier as vocation or tourism a smart dream that changes to a bloody event in the home of the batcher female in dark room under ground in a somewhere Africa. Most of the victim are Somalis come here every year for The owner of the FGM clinic as respected costumer Mrs. Halima Hirsi 69 age the manager of the centre service 150 per person expense in the operation a bloody lucrative business inside a well secured town inflicting mutilation nationals from the western countries. Hundreds east Africa diaspora in the western countries the Europe, USA and Australia send their children to the Home countries back to practise FGM female genital mutilations every month against the young girls. A crime against the human rights and the laws of their second nationalities . By Somali Women And Children Cluster
On Tuesday 03 March 2020 test game Paralympics was held in Mogadishu for the disabled people. Two teams from the physical changes participated two different games. Hand ball for two disabled teams and football game between a team for the disability people and a team non-disabled The games took place in Hamar Jajab district football flied. The games were interesting that participants in the field clapped cheerfully. Some of the people watching the game told they have seen unusually games more exciting than we have been watching The test game was organised by Somali disability cluster and Astan TV sport program department that promised the investment of the 1 PARALYMPICS GAME 2020 that will be held public with participation of the all type of the disability people in Mogadishu Benedir region Astan has made other Paralympic test before for the deaf and blind people that has made support and fans from the society. This game will start soon that disability people will have exciting role in the sport and social in the Somali community
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Somalia closes down madrassas to stop virus
On 31 march 20120 The government of Somalia has ordered the closure of all religious schools or madrassas in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. It has urged people to pray from home for the next two weeks instead of going to the mosque. Although there have only been three confirmed coronavirus cases in Somalia, the fear is the country will not be able to cope if it spreads. Health facilities have been devastated by 30 years of war and millions of displaced people live in overcrowded camps. The Islamist group al-Shabab, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, says the only people who can catch Covid-19 are those it describes as "infidels", such as people who work for the government or international organisations. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY HELD IN MOGADISHU BY THE FEMALE DISABILITY
The event was held in Mogadishu at Hotel hayat organized by the SAFDI Somalia Association Female disability ( Ururk Haweeynka naafada Somaliyed) where they have expressed their role in the community and send message to the nationwide Somalia and women to take care the role of the disability females.
Somalia commemorated international women day 8 march 2020 held in different places in the country. A group of female with disability organized event in Mogadishu for the commemoration ceremony participated 30 persons with disability mostly females disability activist
Mss. Amina Mohamed key producer of the report said they are very happy to share public ordeal that has been hidden de decades. The FGM is not easy case. The world and the Somalia civil society raised problems of the non-disability females and this may be the first of its kind I am glad to publish with my team who worked me in the community
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SOMALIA DEBT RELIEF On 05 March 2020 the international monetary fund IMF and the World Bank’s international development association have determined that Somalia has taken the necessary steps to begin receiving debt relief under the enhanced heavily indebted poor countries HIPC initiatives Somalia is the 37th country to reach this milestone known as the HIPC decision point
IMF and World Bank Arrears Clearance Operations •
Arrears to IDA were cleared on March 5, 2020 through bridge financing provided by the government of Norway, reimbursed with the proceeds of a Development Policy Grant.
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Arrears to the IMF were cleared on March 25 with the assistance of bridge financing from the government of Italy, which the authorities have reimbursed using the front-loaded access under the new IMF financial arrangement.
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Arrears to the African Development Bank were cleared on March 5, 2020 through bridge financing provided by the government of the United Kingdom and a contribution from the EU. The bridge loan from the UK was reimbursed by the proceeds of a Policy Based Operation Grant.
Details of the Debt Relief Operation • At the start of the HIPC process, Somalia's publicand publicly-guaranteed external debt was estimated at US$5.2 billion in NPV terms. Application of traditional debt relief mechanisms reduces this debt to US$3.7 billion. •
Additional debt relief under the enhanced HIPC Initiative is estimated at US$2.1 billion in NPV terms. Of this amount, US$843 and US$1,225 million is projected to be provided by official multilateral and bilateral creditors, respectively. •
Paris Club creditors are expected to make a decision on debt relief by the end of March 2020. The largest Paris Club creditors are the United States, Russia, Italy, and France. The IMF Executive Board has approved interim debt relief on debt service falling due to the IMF in the period between the HIPC Decision and Completion Points. At the HIPC Completion Point, Somalia’s current debt due to the IMF will be paid with the proceeds of financial contributions that have been received from over 100 IMF members, including many lowincome countries.
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MDRI debt relief from IDA and the African Development Bank would cancel all remaining claims at the Completion Point.
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Together, Somalia’s external debt burden is expected to fall from about US$5.2 billion (110.7 present of GDP) in NPV terms as of end2018 to US$557 million (9 present of GDP) once the Completion Point is reached.
The HIPC Initiative In 1996, the World Bank and IMF launched the HIPC Initiative to create a framework in which all creditors, including multilateral creditors, can provide debt relief to the world's poorest and most heavily indebted countries to ensure debt sustainability, and thereby reduce the constraints on economic growth and poverty reduction imposed by the unsustainable debt-service burdens in these countries. To date, 37 HIPC countries, including Somalia, have reached their decision points, of which 36 have reached the completion point. The MDRI Created in 2005, the aim of the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) is to reduce further the debt of eligible low-income countries and provide additional resources to help them reach their development objectives. Under the MDRI, three multilateral institutions – the World Bank’s IDA, the IMF and the African Development Fund-- provide 100 percent debt relief on eligible debts to qualifying countries, at the time they reach the HIPC Initiative Completion Point.
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