After a meticulous year-long review and investigation into the operations of the organisations currently working in Somalia, a fact-finding committee assigned by the Office for Supervising the Affairs of Foreign Agencies (OSAFA) has documented a fully comprehensive report, through highly credible internal as well as external sources, detailing the illicit activities and misconducts of some of the organisations.
In response to the findings of the committee, OSAFA has decided to permanently revoke the permissions of the following organisations to operate inside Somalia.
1. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
2. World Health Organisation (WHO)
3. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
4. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
5. United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
6. Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU)
7. Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
8. Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
9. Concern
10. Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
11. Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI)
12. Swedish African Welfare Alliance (SAWA)
13. German Agency For Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
14. Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
15. Solidarity
16. Saacid
Apart from the collective misappropriation of funds and public trust in their operations, the following organisations were found to be:
1- Generating and collecting data through dubious programme under the guise of demographic surveys, vaccinations reports, demining surveys, nutrition analyses and population censuses.
2- Using field data and analyses for dishonest policies and programmes other than poverty reduction, humanitarian aid, provision of life opportunities and development of sustainable living conditions.
3- Working with international bodies to foster secularism, immorality and the degrading values of democracy in an Islamic country.
4- Some organisations were found to be collaborating with trans-national ecumenical churches and acting as platforms for proselytizing young, susceptible and often impoverished Muslim children.
5- Conveying communications and disseminating information regarding the activities of the Muslims and particularly the Mujahideen.
6- Financing, aiding and abetting subversive groups seeking to destroy the basic tenets of Islamic penal system.
7- Persistently galvanizing the local population against the full establishment of Islamic Shari’ah system.
8- Lacking complete political detachment and neutrality with regard to the conflicting parties in Somalia, thereby intensifying the instability and insecurity gripping the nation as a whole.
9- Undermining the livelihoods and cultural values of the population through the pervasive practice of corruption and bribery as means of operation.
10- Working vigorously in partnership with several organisations in order to exploit the country of its natural resources.
11- Acting as an impediment to the people’s ability to reach long term sustainability through the preservation and management of their natural resources in a self-determined manner.
12- Amplifying the refugee crisis in the country and failing to implement durable solutions that satisfactorily resolve the suffering of internally displaced refugees.
13- Promoting the fragmentation of the local population through the pursuance of tribal associations in their social interactions and partnerships.
In the light of these findings, OSAFA shall henceforth continue to dispatch a yearly fact-finding committee to evaluate and appraise the performance of all the organisations operating inside Somalia. Any organisation found to be supporting or actively engaged in activities deemed detrimental to the attainment of an Islamic State or performing duties other than that which it formally proclaims will be banned immediately without prior warning.
“Safeguarding the welfare of the Muslim Ummah”
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