MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – The Somali health ministry has informed donors and UN agencies based Nairobi that the ministry will no longer wish to dispatch its staff to Kenya to attend meetings.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the Ministry’s Director General, Abdullahi Hashi Ali, said the representatives from the ministry will not attend all planned and upcoming meetings in Nairobi.
The statement also stated that the staff will not participate in seminars, workshops, and training to be held in the capital city of Kenya.
Mr. Ali urged the donors, UN agencies and international partners to hold events in Somalia.
“The ministry highly encourages those events to be held in the country or be moved to the alternative country for ease travel to ministry representative s,” the statement reads in part.
The ministry appreciated it’s partners for their support to the Somali government.
“Ministry of Health and Human Services of Federal Republic of Somalia covey’s it’s gratitude to its partners for the contribution in improving the health, and well being of the Somali people and supporting the institutional capacity building of the ministry of health at the federal and state levels,” the director general said.
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