STORY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff receive specialized

media training
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ SOMALI/ NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 23-25/NOVEMBER/2019, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Med shot, The Deputy Special Representative of the African Union

Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia, Simon Mulongo greeting the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Director of Diplomatic Institute
Ambassador Yusuf Alasow Mohamud during the opening session of the
specialized media training
2. Med shot, The Deputy Special Representative of the African Union
Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia, Simon Mulongo flanked by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Director of Diplomatic Institute
Ambassador Yusuf Alasow Mohamud seated during the opening session of
the specialized media training
3. Wide shot, newly recruited Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation staff participants taking part in the specialized media training
4. Close up shot, DSRCC, Simon Mulongo listening during the training
5. Med shot, participants listening during the training
6. Med shot, participants listening during the training
7. Med shot, participants listening during the training
8. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) SIMON MULONGO, DEPUTY SPECIAL
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION (DSRCC) FOR
SOMALIA
“As a government, you need to have a clear strategy supported by actions
plans to be able to inform, educate and influence the masses on the subject
of your choice”.

9. Med shot, participants listening during the training

10. Wide shot, DSRCC, Simon Mulongo interacting with officials from the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Government of Somalia
11. Med shot, DSRCC, Simon Mulongo interacting with officials from the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Government of Somalia
12. Wide shot, participants walking out of the room
13. Wide shot, participants and officials from AMISOM and the Ministry of
foreign affairs posing for a group photo
 14. Med shot, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal
Government of Somalia arriving at the venue of the specialized media
training for newly recruited Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation staff
15. Wide shot, participants and officials listening during the training session
16. Med shot, officials from the Ministry of foreign affairs and AMISOM listening
during the training session
17. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI) AMBASSADOR YUSUF ALASOW MOHAMUD,
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
“I hope you will practice the knowledge you gained here on your work at the
Ministry. I don’t want to talk a lot but we requested for more of such
specialized training to be extended to us”.

18. Med shot, participants listening during the training

19. Wide shot, participants giving his remarks during the training
20. Wide shot, course trainer facilitating during the training session
21. Med shot, participants listening
22. Med shot, participants listening and taking notes
23. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI) YASSIN AHMED ALI, TRAINEE, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS
“The day before yesterday when we started this training and today I believe
is really different from my understanding of the media and what I know
today has also improved. I learnt the relationship between media and
diplomats and also how the two need each other. We benefited a lot”.

24. Wide shot, participants listening during the training

25. Med shot, participants listening during the training
26. Wide shot, participants listening during the training
27. Med shot, participant making a presentation during the training
28. Med shot, participants listening and taking notes during the training session
29. Close up shot, a participant taking notes
30. Med shot, participant asking a question
31. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI) MOHAMED SHIIL, TRAINER
“I believe if such trainings are increased it will help positively impact the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was a good opportunity to improve relations
between the media and diplomats”.

32. Wide shot, participants taking part in the training

Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff receive specialized media training

Mogadishu, 26 November—Officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and

International Cooperation of the Federal Government of Somalia have been told that
use of strategic communication tools is vital if they are to win the hearts and minds
of the people they serve.

The Deputy Special Representative of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for
Somalia, Simon Mulongo, said this when he was addressing twenty newly recruited
officers during a three-day specialized media and communication strategy
development training in Mogadishu from the 23rd to 25th November.

“As a government officers, you need to have a clear strategy supported by action
plans to be able to inform, educate and influence the masses on the subject of your
choice”, Mulongo said in his remarks during the official opening of the training.

This first-ever training was facilitated by the African Union Mission in Somalia
(AMISOM) in partnership with the Diaspora Department of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and International Cooperation.

Through the specialized training of its staff, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation hopes to enhance the country’s image through effective
communications, improve its messaging capabilities as well as advance the narrative
of resilience, reconstruction and progress that Somalia is undergoing.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Director of Diplomatic

Institute Ambassador Yusuf Alasow Mohamud thanked AMISOM and underscored
the importance of the training for both the Ministry and the staff trained and
requested more similar specialized training to be organized.

“I hope you will practice the knowledge you gained here. We have requested
AMISOM for more of such specialized training to be extended to us,” Ambassador
Yusuf told the trainees on the closing day of the training.

Senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who attended the opening and
closing ceremonies of the training include Mohamed Abdi Ali, the Director of
Diaspora Relations whose department played a key role in organizing the training,
Abdi Dahir Abdirahman, the Director of Africa Department and Abdiweli Hassan
Hussein, the Head of Diaspora Relations Sections.

Yassin Ahmed Ali said he had gained a lot during the three days’ training and was
raring to go to put into practice what he had learnt.

“My understanding of the media and how media is important in my line of work has
improved. I have learnt of the relationship between media and diplomats and also
how the two are critical for each other,” he said.