{"id":863,"date":"2018-05-29T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=863"},"modified":"2018-05-29T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:59:49","slug":"benadir-fishermen-go-missing-as-locals-blame-foreign-trawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2018\/05\/29\/benadir-fishermen-go-missing-as-locals-blame-foreign-trawlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Benadir fishermen go missing as locals blame foreign trawlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU (SOHA) –<\/strong> <\/span>Fadumo Nur Abdukadir, a 52 year mother, wakes up every morning and takes long walks along Hamar-Weyne coastline in Benadir region in search of her son, who has been missing for more than a month.<\/p>\n

Fadumo\u2019s son ,Abshir Muriidi Mahamed, was among a group of fishermen who went out to sea one day in April and did not come back. Their bodies have not been found.\u00a0 The suspicion is that they were abducted by foreign trawlers.<\/p>\n

insideFadumo always returns to the place her son and his colleagues used to camp before they went out to sea and on their return.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t eat, I can\u2019t sleep, my family are all so worried,\u201d said Fadumo.\u00a0 She has heard from fishermen in Lower Shabelle that her son was captured by men on foreign trawlers fishing illegally off the Somali coast.<\/p>\n

Abshir, 20, was the eldest son in Fadumo\u2019s family and the only one providing an income for the other seven family members.\u00a0 Fadumo\u2019s husband has been bedridden for two years with tuberculosis of the spine.\u00a0 The family is getting some help from her two nephews, one of whom repairs car air conditioners while the other makes hand-sewn traditional clothing.<\/p>\n

Abshir is one of 12 fishermen who went missing on 12 April. The men went out in four boats, four to each boat, according to Iman Abdukadir Suuf, one of the group.<\/p>\n

Iman told Radio Ergo that his boat escaped and returned to the shore when they heard gunshots coming from a foreign ship.\u00a0 It was late at night when the ocean was calm. They were in Doolliyow area near Marka town in Lower Shabelle, from where they had set out to fish for sharks.<\/p>\n

Iman said they have previously been attacked by men on board foreign boats trawling for fish off the Somali coast. He believes a foreign trawler abducted the other men in his group as part of a planned campaign to prevent information from spreading about their illegal activities.<\/p>\n

Other fishermen are now so afraid of being attacked or kidnapped by foreign trawlers that they are confining themselves to the very shallow waters just off the shore.<\/p>\n

The director of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Abdirisak Diriye Warsame, told Radio Ergo they have received an outcry of complaints from the local fishermen\u2019s association. They have contacted neighbouring countries seeking information about the young fishermen but have got nothing back yet. The director confirmed that foreign vessels have been exploiting the fishing resources in the area for a long time.<\/p>\n

Source: Radio Ergo<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Fadumo Nur Abdukadir, a 52 year mother, wakes up every morning and takes long walks along Hamar-Weyne coastline in Benadir region in search of her son, who has been missing for more than a month. Fadumo\u2019s son ,Abshir Muriidi Mahamed, was among a group of fishermen who went out to sea one …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}