European Union Training Mission

Somalia

PRESS SUMMARY

24th April 2018

“In ‘Media’ stat virtus”

First of three ministers resigns to contest for Speaker post

April 23, 2018

FILE: Immediate former state minister for trade Abdi

Aziz Hassan Mohamed.

State minister for Trade and Industry Abdi Aziz

Hassan Mohamed has resigned his post to

contest for Lower House speaker position heading the pack of three ministers slated to exit

their ministerial posts.

The minister who was appointed to the post by Prime Minister Hassan Khaire when he

formed his first cabinet last March said he submitted his resignation in response to the

conditions unveiled by the election committee Sunday.

“I am resigning my position in order to vie for the post of speaker in line with the regulations

issued by the elections committee,” Hassan told journalists. “I thank the Prime Minister for

the confidence he had in me to serve as minister for more than a year,” the minister

popularly known by his nickname, Lafta Green added.

The parliamentary committee tasked with overseeing the elections Sunday said ministers

intending to vie for the seat must resign their posts before being registered as candidates.

The registration started today and will end tomorrow.

The seat fell vacant following the resignation of former Speaker Mohamed Jawari after a

month long political dispute with Khaire. Other ministers expected to exit their posts are

Water and Energy Minister Salim Ibrow and his Defense counterpart Mohamed Mursal.

The election will take place April 30.

http://goobjoog.com/english/first-of-three-ministers-resigns-to-contest-for-speaker-post/

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Defense and Water ministers to resign to contest speaker seat

April 23, 2018

Defence minister Mohamed Mursal Sheikh

Abdirahman (C) speaking during a past

function He is among ministers vying for

speaker seat.

Ministers who intend to contest for the

post of speaker of the Lower House must

resign their positions, the election

committee mandated to oversee the

exercise said Sunday.

The Nur Bayle led committee which released the election timetable said the ministers must

submit their resignation during registration for the post between April 23 and 24th this

month. So far, defense minister Mohamed Mursal and his water and energy counterpart

Salim Ibrow have declared their candidature.

Former speaker Aadan Madobe is also contesting for the seat which fell vacant early this

month following the resignation of then speaker Mohamed Jawari after a month long

political stand-off also involving Prime Minister Hassan Khaire.

According to the timetable, the candidates will be required to deposit the requisite election

fee at the Lower House account in the Central Bank. The lawmakers will also have the chance

to pitch for their election between April 25 and 26th.

Preparation for the election will take place from 27th to 29th of this month ahead of the poll

on April 30.

http://goobjoog.com/english/defense-and-water-ministers-to-resign-to-contest-speaker-seat/

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Somalia’s Continuing Crisis Worsens with UAE Dispute

By J. Peter Pham

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi

Mohamed arrives for celebrations to mark

the 57th anniversary of the Somali National

Armed Forces in the capital Mogadishu, April

12, 2017.

The recent statement from the United

States Africa Command (AFRICOM) that

American forces had carried out an airstrike destroying an al-Shabaab truck bomb near Jana

Cadalle in southern Somalia on April 11 was the third time this month that the US military is

reported to have hit the terrorist group in the East African country. While AFRICOM stressed

that the action—and the eight other airstrikes that it has acknowledged since the beginning

of this year alone—was taken “in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia”

(FGS), the truth is that this heightened operational tempo in response to the ongoing threat

from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab as well as a smaller ISIS-affiliated group only

underscores the ongoing weakness of the internationally-recognized Somali regime. While

it is imperative to keep up military pressure on the militants, ultimately insurgencies like

Somalia’s can only be defeated by political legitimacy—and, as I pointed out late last year,

this is one test that, more than a quarter of century after the collapse of the last central

government to really exercise sovereignty over the country, the authorities in Mogadishu

still struggle to achieve a passing grade on: recall that the FGS’s own auditor estimates that

$20 million changed hands in the process that led to the establishment of the current

administration in February 2017, a fact that does not exactly stir patriotic adherence to or

otherwise bolster the regime’s credibility with ordinary Somalis. Protected in the seaside

capital by the 22,000-strong military force of the African Union Mission in Somalia

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(AMISOM)—made up of troops from Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda whose

salaries are paid by the European Union and whose operations are supported by a United

Nations logistical package and various bilateral donors led by the United States—Somalia’s

political elites wile away their time in internecine power struggles. Earlier this month, the

speaker of the country’s parliament, Mohamed Osman Jawari, was forced to resign ahead

of a no-confidence vote, after losing out in a fight with President Mohamed Abdullahi

Mohamed, a.k.a. “Farmajo” (from the Italian formaggio, or cheese) a dual US-Somali

national who worked as a Buffalo-based diversity contracting officer for the New York State

Department of Transportation in between stints in politics. At least this standoff was

resolved without recourse to physical violence: just a week before, parliamentary police

loyal to the speaker squared off against state security forces aligned with the president in

the legislative chamber itself, necessitating an intervention by Ugandan Brigadier Paul

Lokech and AMISOM troops under his command to separate the combatants. Amid this

political infighting, extremist Islamist elements—including veterans of some of al-Shabaab’s

predecessor groups or fellow travelers such as al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI), the Islamic Courts

Union, and al-Islah—have begun to coalesce around a new banner, “al-Citisam” (“those who

seek protection” [from God]), with support from certain segments of the FGS. During a trip

to the region last month, a well-placed senior African interlocutor with years of diplomatic

and intelligence experience in Somalia shared with me a dossier that suggests that al-

Citisam’s reach may go as far as President Farmajo’s chief of staff, Fahad Yasin. From what I

learned, Yasin—who, prior to his entry into politics as the manager of Farmajo’s successful

bid for the presidency last year, worked for Doha, Qatar-based Al Jazeera’s Arabic-language

channel as a correspondent—has links to several prominent figures in AIAI, which has been

designated a terrorist group by the US State Department under the USA PATRIOT Act. A

respected Horn of Africa researcher summarized al-Citisam in this way: “It is garnering

broader alliances of businessmen and clerics, and this had produced telling jokes in

Mogadishu: ‘al-Shabaab with money is in the making and delivered al-Citisam,’ and the

group is stealthily trying to capture the state… The importance of al-Citisam lies in the fact

that it has the capacity to become a force to be reckoned with quickly, progressively

assuming the upper hand among the rank and file of the [Somali Federal Government],

although the group’s target is the 2020 elections in Somalia… The whole plan is designed in

such a way as to constitute the core of the [Somali National Army, SNA]… When the full

training and organization of these [first] 1,000 soldiers is completed, they will take over the

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running of the security of Villa Somalia… Following the adjustment of Villa Somalia’s security

arrangements, the next batch of 1,000 soldiers consisting of [former] al-Shabaab operatives

will deal with the security of the city.” According to this analyst, recruitment for this plan is

being overseen by a committee headed by Sheikh Abdullahi Ahmed Omer, formerly of

Jabhatul Islamiya (a.k.a, the Somali Islamic Front, JABISO), a group that merged into the

Hizbul Islam insurgency during the Ethiopian intervention in Somalia in 2006. All this is taking

place under the very nose of President Farmajo—perhaps even with his tacit approval. It is

worth recalling that Farmajo’s 2009 master’s thesis at the State University of New York at

Buffalo not only claimed that the genocidal Siad Barre regime had “won the hearts and minds

of the people by promoting a new self-reliance and self-supporting mentality” and lamented

the dictatorship’s ignominious collapse as “another unfortunate page in an unfortunate

epoch,” but described US policy in the region as “failed” while slavishly praising then-Somali

President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, an Islamist, as “the very best person for today’s Somalia.”

This is the context which perhaps sheds some light on an otherwise obscure set of recent

developments. On April 8, Somali officials stopped an airplane at Mogadishu’s Aden Adde

International Airport carrying forty-seven military personnel from the United Arab Emirates

(UAE). According to a statement from the UAE’s Foreign Ministry, the Emirati personnel

were held at gunpoint and assaulted, while a large amount of cash meant “to support the

Somali army and trainees and pay their salaries” was seized (the Associated Press reported

that the funds totaled $9.6 million). A week later, on April 14, in the northern port city of

Bosaso, another Emirati plane, this one carrying trainers for the maritime police force in the

semi-autonomous Puntland region, was detained before it was eventually allowed to depart.

Since 2014, the UAE has provided military and police counterterrorism trainers for Somalia

and pays the salaries of some 2,407 Somali soldiers (roughly 10 percent of the SNA’s official

payroll, although a significantly higher proportion of its deployable effectives). In addition,

the Emirati government and charities underwrite various aid projects, including the Sheikh

Zayed Hospital in Mogadishu (named for the UAE’s founding president, the late Sheikh Zayed

bin Sultan Al Nahyan), which opened in 2015 and has since provided free treatment to

hundreds of patients daily. The UAE is also, after Saudi Arabia and Oman, the largest market

for Somalia’s primarily agricultural exports, especially livestock and hides. Dubai-based DP

World is also committed to investing $442 million in a joint venture with the government in

the Somaliland region to manage and develop a multi-use port in Berbera, on the Gulf of

Aden, one of the largest natural deep harbors on the African continent’s eastern littoral.

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(The government of Ethiopia acquired a 19 percent stake in the project in March 2018,

planning to make Berbera the gateway for an inland infrastructure corridor.) In response,

the UAE announced on April 15 that was ending its military-training mission, which up to

now has trained thousands of Somali soldiers and police at three training centers that it also

constructed. According to the Foreign Ministry in Abu Dhabi: “The decision comes in

response to Somali security forces' seizure of a UAE-registered civil aircraft at Mogadishu

Airport and confiscation of money destined to pay the soldiers… The UAE has expressed its

denunciation of the seizure incident which flies in the face of diplomatic traditions and ties

between world countries and contravenes the agreements signed by both countries.” On

April 21, Somali officials formally took over what had until just days before been the UAE-

run training center in Mogadishu (SNA chief Abdullahi Ali Anod claimed that the government

will turn the facility into a military academy, although he did not explain how it was going to

pay for the transformation). As if on cue, al-Shabaab militants launched a heavy assault in

the early hours of April 22 against the army barracks in the capital’s Warta Nabada (formerly

Wardhigley) district, home of the Villa Somalia presidential compound and the parliament

building. While the attack was repulsed with some casualties, that it could take place in the

heart of Mogadishu, a city from which the insurgents were driven more than six years ago

by AMISOM, only underscores how badly the FGS forces need the training and support that

they won’t be getting any more from the Emirati mission—for whose absence the thirty

buses donated by the government of Qatar after Mogadishu’s rupture with the UAE won’t

quite make up. What has transpired is that the diplomatic conflict between Qatar and the

other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council—especially Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and

Bahrain—has spilled over into a proxy conflict in the Horn of Africa. That much could have

been anticipated, but what is both surprising and, from the point of view of the United States

and other allies, more worrisome, is that the FGS has apparently taken sides. Moreover,

Mogadishu’s choice appears to be driven, in some measure, by a cabal within the already-

fragile regime with a clear Islamist agenda—as if the very real threat of terrorism in and from

Somalia were not more than enough to be concerned about.

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/africasource/somalia-s-continuing-crisis-worsens-

with-uae-dispute

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Rival groups from Somalia’s army fight at former UAE training facility

Apr 23,

A soldier from Somalia's Puntland keeps

guard on high grounds at the Galgala hills,

during preparations for an offense against

al Shabab militants, January 8, 2015.

Rival forces from Somalia's army shot

at each other in the capital

Mogadishu on Monday, with one

group trying to storm a training center the United Arab Emirates left behind after it ended

a training program there, soldiers and residents said.

The clash was an indication of the difficulty in rebuilding unified security forces for a state

where centralized authority collapsed in 1991 and an internationally backed government,

elected last year, faces huge challenges.

It was also another sign of the fallout from a crisis in the Persian Gulf region that has spilled

into the volatile Horn of Africa.

The UAE has trained hundreds of troops since 2014 as part of an effort boosted by an African

Union military mission to defeat an extremist insurgency and secure the country for the

government backed by Western countries, Turkey and the United Nations.

The Persian Gulf nation ended its program in Somalia this month in response after Somali

security forces seized millions of dollars and temporarily held a UAE plane.

"Some Somali military forces attacked us at the base, they wanted to loot it but we repulsed

them," Ahmed Nur a soldier who was trained under the discontinued program, told Reuters.

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After 90 minutes of sporadic gunfire, the training facility was secured by presidential palace

guards, a Reuters journalist at the scene said.

Some of the UAE-trained Somali soldiers fled, said Abdirahman Abdullahi, a second soldier

who was also trained under the program: "Most of my colleagues jumped over the wall and

ran away with their guns. Others left the guns and ran away and so I had to (flee) also."

Residents in the area said they saw UAE trained forces discarding their military uniforms and

fleeing the facility in three-wheeled rickshaws with their guns in their laps.

Somalia's relations with the UAE have been strained by a dispute between Qatar and Saudi

Arabia. The UAE is part of a group of Arab states including Saudi Arabia that has ostracized

Qatar. Countries on both sides of the dispute have influence in Somalia, and Mogadishu has

refrained from taking sides.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-somalia-security/rival-groups-from-somali-army-clash-

at-former-uae-training-facility-idUKKBN1HU1Q6?rpc=401&

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Uganda says military operation in Somalia still on despite challenges

KAMPALA, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The Ugandan military on Monday said its peacekeeping

mission in Somalia is still ongoing, refuting reports that the troops are not making progress.

Despite some challenges which are being addressed, the AMISOM remains on course and

significant successes have since 2007 been achieved, Brig. Richard Karemire, the Ugandan

military spokesman said in a tweet.

AMISOM is an acronym of the African Union Mission in Somalia.

Karemire was responding to a lead story in the local Daily Monitor on Monday quoting David

Muhoozi, Uganda's military chief as saying that the military was stuck in the Somali mission.

The report alleged that Ugandan soldiers deployed in the Horn of Africa country to fight the

al-Shabab militants are stranded due to underfunding, logistical deficits and a challenged

Somali national force.

Uganda was the first to deploy troops in Somalia in March 2007 and still has the largest

number of soldiers in the 22,000-strong African Union peacekeeping operation. Other troop

contributors include Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya.

The troop contributing countries met in Uganda in February this year and urged the

international community to support the mission warning that the military gains made may

be reversed.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/23/c_137131508.htm

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We’re stuck in Somalia, says Army chief

Key players. Chief of Defence Forces

David Muhoozi addresses UPDF

soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, last

year. FILE PHOTO

In Summary

- Uganda was first to deploy

in Somalia in March 2007

and still has the largest number of soldiers in the 22,000-strong African Union

Peacekeeping Mission (Amisom).

- Asked if his meant that the UPDF is stuck in Somalia, Gen Muhoozi spoke of a

“mismatch between what we want to do and what we have.

By RISDEL KASASIRA

The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen David Muhoozi, has said Ugandan soldiers deployed in

Somalia to fight the al-Shabaab are stranded due to underfunding, logistical deficits and a

challenged Somali national force.

In an interview with this newspaper last Thursday, Gen Muhoozi said UPDF has as a result

collapsed some of its forward operating bases to consolidate defensive strength and cannot

launch attacks against al-Shabaab.

“It has now implied that we cannot defend what we already have and neither can we

effectively offend the enemy to degrade [its] capacity. That is the dilemma we are in and

that is why the TCCs (Troop Contributing Countries) met to put across the concerns of the

mission, so that with the international partners, we can find a way forward,” he said.

Uganda was first to deploy in Somalia in March 2007 and still has the largest number of

soldiers in the 22,000-strong African Union Peacekeeping Mission (Amisom). Other troop

contributors include Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya.

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Presidents, military and technical leaders from the TCCs, together with donors, met in

Kampala in February to iron out the teething problems hamstringing Amisom operations.

While opening that meeting, Uganda’s Foreign Affairs ministry permanent secretary Patrick

Mugoya noted: “The international community recognises the role of all Amisom Troop

Contributing Countries in stabilising Somalia, although the support from them is not

commensurate with the task at hand.”

Earlier concerns

The high-level summit was held months after President Museveni in September 2017

offered to send an additional 5,000 troops as long as funding and logistical support were

guaranteed.

The United Nations Security Council instead voted to have foreign troops in Somalia draw

down their forces in calculations to hand the Horn of Africa’s country’s security management

to its national forces.

That Somali army, Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces said during last week’s interview, has

no capacity as of now to even hold areas already captured by Amisom troops.

Asked if his meant that the UPDF is stuck in Somalia, Gen Muhoozi spoke of a “mismatch

between what we want to do and what we have. That’s why we are talking about reviewing

our operations.”

“Our ambition was bigger than the troops we had,” he said, “you find that you have moved

forward but your rear is insecure; it is vulnerable because there are no holding forces which

ideally should be coming from the Somali.”

Risks

He added: “As you take supplies because you are road-bound, you are predictable. The

enemy’s weapon of choice are Improvised Explosive Devices that degrade your vehicles and

manpower every day. So we are looking at all sorts of ways that can minimise attrition on

those things that are avoidable.”

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The CDF said Amisom troops would be safer and more effective at the frontline with air

mobility and force multipliers such as attack helicopters as well as guaranteed funding and

logistical supplies.

“...the mission is underfunded, expectations are high but not matched by the support to

achieve those expectations especially the resources to do the job and do it quickly. It was

exacerbated by the recent drawdown by the UN Security Council,” he said.

In the interview, the army chief also spoke about what he said was the growing threat from

the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a decimated Lord’s Resistance Army group that has

turned into localised criminal enterprise in eastern DR Congo and Central African Republic

and UPDF’s massing of troops at the border to counter the menace of South Sudan’s military

and rebels.

Challenges

Concerns. Asked if his meant that the UPDF is stuck in Somalia, Gen Muhoozi spoke of a

“mismatch between what we want to do and what we have. That’s why we are talking about

reviewing our operations”. “Our ambition was bigger than the troops we had,” he said, “you

find that you have moved forward but your rear is insecure; it is vulnerable because there

are no holding forces which ideally should be coming from the Somalis.”

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/We-re-stuck-Somalia-Army-chief/688334-

4493940-dt07w5z/index.html

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Fears of more IEDs after al Shabaab steal fertiliser from Somalia farmers

Apr. 23, 2018, Suspected members of

the Al Shabaab terror group on

Saturday stole fertilisers from local

farmers in Gedo region, Somalia.

The farmers started preparing their

farms for planting three weeks ago

soon after the rainy season kicked in.

They mainly engage in the cultivation of bananas, watermelons, onions, and tomatoes.

They had received fertiliser supplies from humanitarian aid agencies working in Somalia.

However, a group of militants raided a village in Lower Shebelle and demanded for the

consignment. The supplies had been delivered to the farmers the previous week by the aid

agencies. Kamal Abdi, a tomato farmer, reported that four armed militants raided his home

on Saturday morning while he was away at the farm.

He said the militants took away all his fertiliser and repeatedly raped his teenage daughter

who had been left alone at home. Security agents suspect that the militants are using the

fertiliser as a component in making Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS).

The terror group is synonymous with using IEDs against enemy forces allied to AMISOM and

troops from the Somali National Army.

The residents are appealing to security agencies to intervene and provide sufficient security

to them.

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/04/23/fears-of-more-ieds-after-al-shabaab-steal-

fertiliser-from-somalia_c1748275

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UAE Online Visa Registration Replaces Somalia With Somaliland

On Apr 23, 2018 - The United Arab

Emirates Interior Ministry’s website

has removed Somalia from its

portal of visa registration and

replace it with “Republic Of

Somaliland”.

A Spokesman for the Somaliland

President Muse Abdi Bihi has issued a statement to thank UAE for “accepting” Somaliland

passport.

Somalilland media and bloggers have reported that the first Somaliland passport holder to

be accepted by UAE travelled last Friday.

The development came amid strained relations between Mogadishu and Abu Dhabi.

On Monday Somaliland President Bihi hosted a 12 man UAE delegation in Hargeisa.

https://www.radiodalsan.com/en/2018/04/23/uae-online-visa-registration-replaces-

somalia-with-somaliland/

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Somaliland President Bihi appoints new Directors and Managers

Hargeisa —-Somaliland president Muse Bihi

Abdi appointed a list of officials to new posts,

according to a decree released on Saturday.

In the decree received by Somaliland

Informer, the president named Ali Ibrahim

Jama Baqdadi for the Director of the Bank of

Somaliland (BOS) and Ahmed Hasan Abdi

Arwo as General Manager of the BOS.

The other posts named in the decree are General Manager of Ministry of National Planning

and Development and head of the national projects. He also named the deputy Governor of

Salal province.

President Abdi thanked the departing officials for their service to Somaliland.

https://www.somaliaonline.com/community/topic/96895-somaliland-president-bihi-

appoints-new-directors-and-managers/?tab=comments#comment-1045374

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Somaliland: Continuity or Aggressive Reform: First 100 Days of President

Muse Bihi Abdi

By M. A. Ali, University of Hargeisa,

LLB and MA in International Relations

and Diplomacy.

The Establishment of Democracy

Somaliland had inherited societal structure which had survived through the colonial era and

into the independence period[1], this culture remained intact during and after the war

between Somali National Movement (SNM) and Siad Barre’s regime. Since 1991, when

Somaliland declared independence from the rest of Somalia, the country went through

different stages of transformation, starting from grassroot tribal reconciliation,

disarmament of clan militia groups, peacebuilding and laying the foundation of systematic

procedure of shifting from traditional Charter to hybrid system of democratic state, where

citizens elect government officials with a ballot paper

In May 1993, President Egal was elected to replace President Abdirahman Tuur, the last

SNM[2]chairman and the founding President of Somaliland during the Borama Grand

Conference, President Egal brought a new momentum of state-building with a clear and

precise blueprint. His priority was militia disarmament and seizing the control of the main

government sources of revenue, including the major ports, airports and border customs

which were at the time controlled by various clan militias.

https://www.somaliaonline.com/community/topic/96898-somaliland-continuity-or-

aggressive-reform-first-100-days-of-president-muse-bihi-

abdi/?tab=comments#comment-1045378

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Somaliland president receives UK Ambassador

Hargeisa— President Muse Abdi received UK Ambassador David Concar at his presidential

palace in Hargeisa on Monday.

President Abdi thanked the United Kingdom for its developmental programs in Somaliland.

Mr. Abdi said that Somaliland is holding the parliamentary election and halted the talks

between Somalia and Somaliland over the Berbera port tension.

Ambassador told Abdi that the United Kingdom will continue the financial aid to Somaliland

and praised its efforts to make sure its democracy and free and fair elections that take place

in Somaliland every five years.

Meanwhile, Somaliland’s Minister for information Abdirahman Guri Barwako said that his

administration will never detain any journalist but will use other legal means if he/she

commits any violations.

https://www.somaliaonline.com/community/topic/96896-somaliland-president-receives-

uk-ambassador/?tab=comments#comment-1045375

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Somaliland among the first beneficiaries of the 50 Clean Energy Projects

initiative by ImpactPPA and Earth Day Network

23-04-2018 | by: Bob Koigi - Decentralized renewable energy company ImpactPPA and Earth

Day Network have announced an initiative to install clean energy systems at 50 facilities by

2020. The “50 by 50” initiative will focus on providing hybrid wind and solar installations to

schools, healthcare centers, and other facilities whose work could be greatly enhanced by

access to reliable energy. The first installation will be at Edna Adan Hospital in Hargeisa,

Somaliland. Through this effort, ImpactPPA will install a hybrid wind and solar system to

provide affordable and reliable energy, allowing money currently spent acquiring fuel to be

channeled directly into patient care. This project aligns with the United Nations Sustainable

Energy for All initiative, which seeks to provide universal access to sustainable energy by

2030 with a focus on healthcare centers as first priority. This goal is especially important in

regions like sub-Saharan Africa, where just 28 percent of healthcare facilities report having

reliable access to electricity. “We hope that the success of our first project with ImpactPPA

will become a launchpad for continuing our work together and identifying other worthy

projects and partners around the globe,” said Kathleen Rogers, President of Earth Day

Network. “This initiative will not only showcase an emergent technology, but also have a

real impact on people who need clean energy.” “Improving the world’s access to clean

energy is a goal that we share with Earth Day Network, and this partnership moves us closer

to balancing inequality in our global energy systems,” said Dan Bates, CEO of ImpactPPA.

“We look forward to identifying new opportunities to deploy ImpactPPA’s technology

globally through the 50 by 50 initiative.” ImpactPPA will be recognized at Earth Day

Network’s Climate Leadership Gala for its work with the Edna Adan Hospital in Washington

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D.C. on May 8, 2018. The annual event gathers the world’s most distinguished green

economy leaders and celebrates achievements leading the path to a post-carbon future.

https://africabusinesscommunities.com/news/somaliland-among-the-first-beneficiaries-

of-the-50-clean-energy-projects-initiative-by-impactppa-and-earth-day-network/

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