(3 October 2018) Mogadishu took part in the signing ceremony of approximately €3.3 million in favour of the UNDP strengthening programme in the presence of Ambassador Carlo Campanile, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General, Peter De Clerq, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Kehyr Abdi and Minister for Public Works, Abdifitah Mohammed Ibrahim. Italian funding will be used for important infrastructure projects such as the reconstruction of the Galcayo city prison, Galmudug State, the rehabilitation of the building that houses the Supreme Court in Mogadishu and the construction of the perimeter infrastructure of the Somali National University (UNS) based in the capital. These interventions represent a support to the judicial and higher education sectors, fundamental in the process of consolidation of the capacities of the Somali State, to which Italy has long contributed in a perspective of full collaboration with the UN agencies involved in the country and ownership of the Somali institutions responsible for implementing the projects.
