Al-Kathiri Meets Executive Body of Hadhramaut and Reviews Difficulties Encounter Media Departments.

Mr. Ali Abdullah Al-Kathiri, member of Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), head of the National Southern Media Authority (NSMA), received, in his office, at headquarters of NSMA, on Thursday, Brigadier General Saeed Ahmed Al-Mohammadi, head the Local Leadership Executive Body of the STC in Hadramout governorate, and several members of the executive bodies.

In the meeting, which was attended by Mr. Mukhtar Al-Yafe'y, deputy head of NSMA, Mr. Al-Kathiri reviewed tasks and assumed responsibilities of NSMA in regulating the work of media sectors, and aspects of coordination between media departments and sectors to provide a national and responsible media discourse.

In the meeting, Al-Kathiri listened from Brigadier General Al-Mohammadi to a brief explanation of the overall difficulties Encountering media administration in the governorate and its districts, and possible ways to overcome these obstacles, and activate media role in covering the activities and performances of the local leadership in the downtown of the governorate and its districts in a better way than previous approaches.

Al-Kathiri stressed on the immense attention that NSMA pays to developing the performance of media departments in all governorates of the South, as well as supervising the activity of media centers, training and qualifying media cadres in the South through NSMA's media training centers.

The meeting touched on preparations to hold the first conference for journalists and media members of the South, and the pressed need of media departments in the executive bodies in governorates of the South to interact with those preparations to assemble southern media members and journalists to participate in the conference.