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Somalia expels UN envoy Nicholas Haysom
Source: BBC
Somalia expels UN envoy Nicholas Haysom
2 January 2019
Somalia has expelled the UN's top envoy, Nicholas Haysom, accusing him of "shaming" the world body by acting like the country's ruler.
Mr Haysom had raised concern about the killing of protesters allied with ex-militant Islamist Mukhtar Robow.
Security forces were allegedly involved in the deaths of about 15 of the protesters and the detention of about 300 people, the UN says.
Somalia's government is heavily dependent on foreign aid.
The UN provides training, uniforms and stipends to its security forces, who are battling militant Islamist group al-Shabab.
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2 January 2019
Somalia has expelled the UN's top envoy, Nicholas Haysom, accusing him of "shaming" the world body by acting like the country's ruler.
Mr Haysom had raised concern about the killing of protesters allied with ex-militant Islamist Mukhtar Robow.
Security forces were allegedly involved in the deaths of about 15 of the protesters and the detention of about 300 people, the UN says.
Somalia's government is heavily dependent on foreign aid.
The UN provides training, uniforms and stipends to its security forces, who are battling militant Islamist group al-Shabab.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46734994
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Source: Washington Post
Somalia expels top U.N. official after he criticizes crackdown on dissent
By Max Bearak January 2 at 9:12 AM
Somalia’s government took the unusually drastic step of expelling the United Nations’ most senior official in the country late Tuesday after he questioned the detention of a former al-Shabab leader contesting regional elections.
Nicholas Haysom, a South African, had served only a few months as the special representative for U.N.Secretary General António Guterres. Somalia’s Foreign Ministry declared him a “persona non grata” and ordered him to leave the country.
“The decision came after the highest U.N. diplomat in Somalia violated the agency’s standards and the international diplomatic norms by intervening the national sovereignty of Somalia,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement published by state-owned media.
His expulsion comes amid a political crisis that has pitted the governments of Somalia’s semiautonomous regions against the federal government based in the capital, Mogadishu. The regional governments are in the process of holding elections.
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By Max Bearak January 2 at 9:12 AM
Somalia’s government took the unusually drastic step of expelling the United Nations’ most senior official in the country late Tuesday after he questioned the detention of a former al-Shabab leader contesting regional elections.
Nicholas Haysom, a South African, had served only a few months as the special representative for U.N.Secretary General António Guterres. Somalia’s Foreign Ministry declared him a “persona non grata” and ordered him to leave the country.
“The decision came after the highest U.N. diplomat in Somalia violated the agency’s standards and the international diplomatic norms by intervening the national sovereignty of Somalia,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement published by state-owned media.
His expulsion comes amid a political crisis that has pitted the governments of Somalia’s semiautonomous regions against the federal government based in the capital, Mogadishu. The regional governments are in the process of holding elections.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/somalia-expels-un-top-official-after-he-questions-crackdown-on-dissent/2019/01/02/ec1f89da-0e7d-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html
