Examples of arms embargo violations

1 DDR Officer (P 4)

In Mogadishu, the printing is said to take place in the Huruwa area.

Counterfeit Somali shillings are being printed in Mogadishu and, allegedly, in Nairobi.

Jowhar is located 90 kilometres north of Mogadishu and has an estimated population of about 100,000.

It is reported that al Ittihad owns some schools and universities in Mogadishu and in other areas in southern Somalia.

Other staff members of the same al Ittihad leader are computer engineers located in Mogadishu, who are responsible for encrypting his communications.

They have been supplying the Bakaaraha arms market at Irtogte in Mogadishu for a number of years during the arms embargo.

(a) Reviewing the Mogadishu Plan by consultation and incorporating its operational elements into an inclusive national plan for the relocation of the Transitional Federal Government.

Military equipment in the form of night vision devices was also part of a shipment of arms to a warlord located in Mogadishu.

There has been no archbishop in the country since 1989, and the cathedral in Mogadishu was severely damaged during the civil war.

He then transports the explosives, typically by boat, to the Mogadishu area, to the same al Ittihad leader who is in charge of the military training camps.

The Monitoring Group also told the Monitoring Team that type SA 7 man portable air defence systems had been sighted in the Bakaaraha arms market in Mogadishu.

At least twice a year, large amounts of money donated by organizations in the Gulf States that support charities and schools in Somalia, in particular in Mogadishu, are being diverted.

They have various locations throughout central and southern Somalia two camps in Dhoobley, one in Sablaale, six in Gaalkacyo (south), five in Mogadishu and three in Raschiamboni.

On Saturday, 14 May, Habsade received a shipment of arms, transported in a lorry, for Muse Suudi, Mohamed Qanyare Afrah, Osman Hassan Ali Atto and Abdirashid Ilqeyte (a businessman) from Mogadishu.

Now, as we speak, the new state institutions are operating from within our country, temporarily from Jowhar, the provincial capital of the lower Shabelle region, situated only 90 kilometres from Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia.

Five regional offices are to be established, at Mogadishu, Baidoa, Garoowe, Hargeysa and Kismaayo, each fielded by one Political Affairs Officer (National Professional Officer), to gather information and allow better understanding of regional and local issues affecting political developments.

The other local criminal group has a network of people who operate primarily in a geographic area that includes the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, the Gulf of Aden, Somalia ( Puntland the seaport of Bossaaso and the Bakaaraha arms market in Mogadishu).

It also had further meetings with the Monitoring Group established pursuant to resolution 1519 (2003) on Somalia in relation to the arms market in Mogadishu and regional financial flows, and met the Panel of Experts established pursuant to resolution 1579 (2004) on Liberia to discuss the movement of precious commodities.