Yesterday morning, inside theInternational Campus of Mogadishu - headquarters of the headquarters of EUTM - Somalia and of the national component (IT-NSE) supporting the European Union training mission - the closing ceremony of an all-Italian project took place which in a few months led to the construction of a clinic in the Garasbaleey area, one of the 18 districts of the Somali capital which, in addition to being among the most populated, was the only one without the presence of a health center.
Financed with the funds assigned to the CIMIC (Civil Military Cooperation) component of theItalian National Support Element (IT-NSE), the clinic will represent a very important point of medical assistance both for Garasbaleey residents and for the many displaced families (Internally Displaced Persons - IDPs) that by this time hundreds are moving from inland areas towards Mogadishu in search of food and water to escape one of the worst periods of drought and famine in recent decades.
The ceremony was attended by the mayor of Mogadishu and governor of the Banadir region, Yussuf Hussein Jim'ale and the district commissioner of Garasbaleey, Abdirahman Ahmed Ali, who underlined the importance of the clinic for the population of the capital expressed their deep gratitude to the authorities Italian military and diplomats present, specifically Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Fabri, commander of theItalian National Support Element (IT-NSE) and Colonel Carlo Emiliani, military attaché at the Italian Embassy in Somalia.
