STORY: SOMALIA / BASKETBALL TRT: 4:32 SOURCE: AU/UN IST RESTRICTIONS: This media asset is free for editorial broadcast, print, online and radio use. It is not to be sold on and is restricted for other purposes. All enquiries to news@auunist.org CREDIT REQUIRED: AU/UN IST LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /SOMALIA/NATS DATELINE: 07 JULY 2013, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA / JANUARY 2013, DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA SHOTLIST: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (JULY 7, 2013) (AU/UN IST) 1. Wide shot, boys and girls during basketball clinic 2. Med shot, players on the court 3. Med shot, young boys and girls with the ball 4. Wide shot, young boys doing layups during basketball clinic 5. Close up, shoes on the court 6. Wide shot, silhouette of players standing under the backboard 7. Wide shot, two players running a passing drill 8. Close up, Hamsa Abdullahi Hussein’s face 9. Wide shot, Hamsa Abdullahi Hussein and other girls practicing free throws 10. Wide shot, Hussein making a layup 11. Medium shot, backboard as ball enters the basket 12. Soundbite (Somali) Hamsa Abdullahi Hussein, Basketball Player: 13. Medium shot, girls listening to their coach, Said Mohammed Sheikh 14. Close up, Sheikh’s face as he talks to girls 15. Wide shot, girls playing 16. Medium shot, ball being thrown on the backboard during a drill 17. Wide shot, Coach Hassan Ahmed Gelleh watching the players 18. Medium shot, Dekkeda players doing layups 19. Wide shot/tilt, players jumping 20. Soundbite (Somali) Said Mohammed Sheikh, Basketball Player: 21. Wide shot, spectators watching players 22. Medium shot, Gelleh and substitutes watching the game 23. Medium shot, Gelleh watching the game 24. Wide shot, players on the court 25. Medium shot, players during the game 26. Soundbite (Somali) Hassan Ahmed Gelleh, Basketball Coach: 27. Wide shot, players during the game 28. Zoom from Medium to Wide shot, Yahaya Osman, dribbling the ball and shooting 29. Close up, ball entering net 30. Medium shot, Osman standing on court 31. Wide shot, game in progress 32. Medium shot, backboard with ball entering the basket 33. Soundbite (English) Yahaya Osman, Basketball/Entrepreneur: DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA (JANUARY 2013) (MUST CREDIT MUKHTAR AHMED MOHAMED) 34. Wide shot, Somalia (white) and Burundi (red) playing a match 35. Medium shot, Somali supporter carrying Somali flag and celebrating 36. Medium shot, Somali supporter taking a photo with his tablet 37. Wide shot, Somali team scoring 38. Close up, scoreboard 39. Wide shot, Somali supporters celebrating as Somali team wins game STORY: Basketball is one of the world’s most popular sports, so a sight like this, where young people are being taught the basics of the game, should ordinarily, not warrant a second glance or further inquiry. But this, is a training session in the Abdi Aziz district of Mogadishu, the Somali capital. Until about two years ago, sports and other forms of entertainment were forbidden in the large sections of Somalia previously controlled by al Shabaab, the al Qaeda linked extremist group.
