STORY: Somalia’s security actors conclude two-day

intelligence and information sharing meeting

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DATELINE: 25-26/MARCH/2019, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, Military intelligence officers attending the Information Sharing

Conference
2. Close up shot, banner
3. Wide shot, intelligence officers at the conference
4. Med shot, AMISOM’s Chief Military Intelligence Officer, Col. David Obonyo
speaking at the conference
5. Wide shot, Participants listening at the conference
7. Med shot, Lt. Gen. Nakibus Lakara, AMISOM’s Deputy Force Commander in-
charge of Operations and Plans addressing participants
8. Med shot, Participants listening
9. Wide shot, Participants listening
10. Close up shot, Col. David Obonyo listening
11. Med shot, Participants at the conference
12. Close up shot, a Somali security official in attendance
13. Med shot, Participants listening
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lt. Gen. Nakibus Lakara, AMISOM’s Deputy Force
Commander in-charge of Operations and Plans
“Most often than not, situations where stakeholders or entities keep information to
themselves creates gaps. If you look at all cases where there has been failure to stall
or mitigate terrorist threats, it is because one entity kept information to
themselves,”
15. Med shot, Members of the United Kingdom Mission Support Team (UK MST)
attending the conference
16. Wide shot, Participants at the conference
17. Close up shot, AMISOM and Somali security officials listening
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lt. Gen. Nakibus Lakara, the AU Mission Deputy Force
Commander in charge of Operations and Plans
“It is necessary to create networks amongst the key stakeholders in the intelligence
community through liaison; through a common understanding of the security, of the
threat environment, including the human terrain,”

19. Wide shot, AMISOM’s Chief Military Intelligence Officer, Col. David Obonyo
addressing participants
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Col. David Obonyo, AMISOM’s Chief Military Intelligence
Officer
“It will be important going forward to liaise with NISA and other security institutions
within the country to be able to get factual information. But to do that, to degrade
the enemy, information that we have or the intelligence that we give must be
timely, accurate and actionable,”

21. Wide shot, participants taking notes

22. Med shot, participants leaving the conference at the end of the conference

STORY

Somalia’s security actors conclude two-day intelligence and information sharing

meeting

Mogadishu, 26 March 2019 - An intelligence and information sharing conference

aimed at enhancing collaboration among various security actors in Somalia
concluded today, in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.

The conference, the fifth of its kind to be held in the country, which was organized
by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), with the support of the United
Kingdom Mission Support Team (UK MST), discussed the dynamics in intelligence
gathering and how it impacts on Somalia’s security.

Lt. Gen. Nakibus Lakara, AMISOM’s Deputy Force Commander in-charge of

Operations and Plans noted that the presence of ISIS in the Horn of Africa, called for
improvement in intelligence gathering methods and heightened vigilance.

The top military official urged stakeholders to forge closer working ties, to defeat the
armed insurgency in Somalia.

“Most often than not, situations where stakeholders or entities keep information to
themselves, creates gaps,” he noted. “If you look at all the cases where there has
been failure to stall or mitigate terrorist threats, it is because one entity kept
information to themselves,” he added.

AMISOM’s Military Intelligence Officers from all sectors, representatives of the

Somali National Security Forces and other key stakeholders attended the conference
- the first to be held this year.

“It is necessary to create networks amongst key stakeholders in the intelligence

community through liaison; through a common understanding of the security; of the
threat environment, including the human terrain,” observed the Deputy AMISOM
Force Commander, while urging AMISOM and the Somali security forces to work
closely together, to achieve desired goals.

AMISOM’s Chief Military Intelligence Officer, Col. David Obonyo, called for efficient
intelligence sharing mechanisms.
“It will be important going forward to consistently liaise with NISA (Somalia’s
National Intelligence and Security Agency) and other security institutions within the
country, to be able to get factual information,” Col. Obonyo noted.

He emphasized the importance of systematic sharing of intelligence, in defeating Al-

Shabaab and other armed groups.

“To do that, to degrade the enemy, the information or intelligence that we share
must be timely, accurate and actionable,” said the Chief of Intelligence.

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