April 7, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Security Operation In Jalalaqsi Nets Suspects

07 April – Source: Goobjoog News – 153 Words

A major security operation in Jalalaqsi town, in Hiran region, has reportedly netted several key Al Shabaab suspects. The raid came after SNA and AMISOM got tipped off about planned attacks by the group. Omar Mohamed Kunteenar the commander of government forces there told Goobjoog that they managed to arrest 5 suspects and are closing in on others who are evading arrest.

“Two of the suspects were armed at the time of the arrest, and we are [currently] investigating,” the commander said . He further said that they are about to dismantle Al Shabaab secret cells operating in the district and would do everything to neutralize the sleeping cells so as to prevent breeding grounds for extremism. However, he is worried about the dire situation still facing residents due to a siege on the town by Al Shabaab on the town; at the moment, food prices have gone up dramatically, shelves are running empty in the shops, and food aid is not getting there.

Key Headlines

Security Operation In Jalalaqsi Nets Suspects (Goobjoog News)
Somalia Marks Int’l Day Of Sport For Development And Peace In Mogadishu (Somali Update)
Dhusamereb Delegation Heads To Abudwak (Goobjoog News)
Kenyans Organize Anti-Al Shabaab Processions Along Major Streets In Nairobi Today(Wacaal Media)
Somalia President: We Are Committed To Implement Vision 2016 (Somali Current)
Somalia: Yemen Crisis Spurs Arms Smuggling Into Puntland (Garowe Online)
Kenya Bombs Shabaab In Somalia (The Star Kenya)
Somali President: Kenya Should Not Build Wall (VOA)
Kenya Foreign Minister Calls Attack Response ‘Adequate’ (CNN)
Shabab Militants Learning To Kill On A Shoestring (The New York Times)
Don’t Blame It On Refugees The New Terrorist Is Nurtured Here At Home (Daily Nation)
Marginalisation Mismanagement Provoked Kenya Massacre: Experts (AFP/Yahoo News)
‘Gentle’ Ex-Teacher Accused Of Masterminding Kenya Massacre (AFP/Yahoo News)

SOMALI MEDIA

Somalia Marks Int’l Day Of Sport For Development And Peace In Mogadishu

07 April – Source: Somali Update – 596 Words

The event was hosted at the Banadir Stadium, a FIFA-refurbished soccer facility, and was jointly organized by the Somali Football Federation and the Somali National Olympic Committee (Somali NOC). The president of the Somali NOC, Abdullahi Ahmed Tarabi, and the Somali FA Senior Vice President, Ali Abdi Mohamed, the Deputy Minister for Youth and Sport, Osman, Aden Dhuubow, government lawmakers and former Ocean Stars members joined the country’s 25 football clubs, and fans who at the facility to observe a full day of events in the commemoration of the International Day of Sport. Somali FA Senior Vice President, Ali Abdi Mohamed, who addressed the festival, said it was an honor for the Somali Football Federation and its clubs to welcome the Somali NOC and key government officials to Banadir Stadium. “Today we are marking the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace with a festival here at Stadium Banadir and I want to take this opportunity to send a big thank you to FIFA for renovating this facility for Somalia,” Mohamed told the gathering. “It is a great privilege for the SFF that some former child soldiers and street boys who were rehabilitated under FIFA-assisted Football For Peace initiatives in Somalia are now taking part in the celebrations for the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace,” he said.

Former national team member Ahmed Abbaas Busuri, who spoke at the event on the behalf of old and current players, said it was a moment of pleasure for him to witness Somalia joining the world in marking such a great day for the whole world of sport. “I want to confirm that Somali NOC and Somali FA are praiseworthy for the continuation of sports development programs in the country—me appearing on the stage today shows that old footballers were not forgotten” said the former Ocean stars member who received an award of recognition from the SFF in 2014 for his contributions to the country. The former footballer is now in a wheelchair. The president of the Somali National Olympic Committee, Abdullahi Ahmed Tarabi, who was the leader of the celebrations, said that a peaceful atmosphere was vital for developing sport in Somalia and for that reason, Somali NOC and its member associations were using sport as a tool of peace and development.

“Today we see that so many players are here with us and that is because the players are the backbone of our sport, as without players we cannot develop sport in Somalia and that is why Somali NOC and top government officials are here today to mark both the global day and as well as Somali Athletes’ day which is today,” Tarabi, said before welcoming the deputy minister for youth and sport, Osman Aden Dhuubow to the platform. The deputy minister said his government was fully aware of the huge sports development programs that Somali NOC and its member associations were doing in the country, even through the lawless years when numerous of sporting officials and players lost their lives. In 2013, the United Nations General Assembly recognized April 6th as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.

Dhusamereb Delegation Heads To Abudwak

07 April – Source: Goobjoog News – 143 Words

A delegation headed by the Somali Ambassador to Ethiopia and former deputy prime minister Ahmed Abdisalan, together with a cabinet ministers and elders from Dhusamareb town are heading to Abudwak. Abudwak which lies on Somalia’s border with Ethiopia is the home to one of the central region clans, and might weigh in with a different opinion on the Central State formation conference. The delegation is said to be seeking a common understanding with the leadership of the district before the conference starts in Adado town. The two groups previously teamed up to organize the recently concluded reconciliation conference in Dhusamareb, and pushed for the state formation conference to be held in the same city. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud previously convinced the Dhusamareb tribal leadership tomove the conference to Adado, though the start date is yet to be announced.

Kenyans Organize Anti-Al Shabaab Processions Along Major Streets In Nairobi Today

07 April – Source: Wacaal Media – 97 Words

There is a long procession along major streets in Nairobi today by those who lost their loved ones in the Garissa University College terror attack that claimed the lives of 147 lives. Waving anti-Al-Shabaab placards, and carrying candles, the relatives and friends are expected to pass through major estates and the city center of Nairobi. Most of the bodies of the victims have already been identified by their relatives and burials are expected to start from today. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has called on Kenyans to show unity in the face of the adversity that has befallen the nation.

Somalia President: We Are Committed To Implement Vision 2016

07 April – Source: Somali Current – 96 Words

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today hosted delegates from the African Union and discussed several key agendas including Somalia’s Vision 2016. The president assured the delegates that his government is committed to implementing Vision 2016. Mr. Mohamud also told the delegates that he has directed all government institutions to implement and speed up the process of realizing Vision 2016 goals. The AU Ambassador to Somalia Maman Sidikou lauded the political progress achieved so far, and pointed out that there more to be done before August 2016. The ambassador called on the international community to support Somalia rebuilding process.

Somalia: Yemen Crisis Spurs Arms Smuggling Into Puntland

06 April – Source: Garowe Online – 181 Words

The Yemen crisis has spurred the smuggling of arms consignments into Somalia’s northeastern state of Puntland according to multiple independent sources, Garowe Online reports. Garowe Online learned that Yemeni businessmen clinched agreements with Somali arms dealers to sell weaponry in markets, prompting concerns over the consequence of the damaging move by Puntland government officials. Sources who spoke to Garowe Online on the condition of anonymity said the first consignment was spotted in Bari coastal towns where Yemenis on dhows have long traded catches from territorial waters. Armed conflict experts told Garowe Online that the flood of illegal weapons from Yemen could have adverse effect on regional security. Presidential spokesman Abdullahi Quranjecel said in an interview with VOA Somali service that Puntland will be keeping an eye on Somalis fleeing from Yemen. An undisclosed number of convicted Somali pirates were freed following an April attack on prison in the Yemeni port city of Mukallah on Friday. Airstrikes led by Saudi Arabia and Arab allies are going on two weeks as Houthis struggle for wider influence. The Yemeni conflict is embroiling tribal militias, and contributing to what the US considers Al Qaeda’s most dangerous offshoot in the conflict.

REGIONAL MEDIA

Kenya Bombs Shabaab In Somalia

07 April – Source: The Star Kenya – 179 Words

The Kenyan air force bombed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia on Sunday, a Kenya Defence Forces source told the Star yesterday.Jets pounded the camps in Gondodowe and Ismail, both in the Gedo region bordering Kenya, the source said. This is the first major military response to last Thursday’s attack by the militant group on Garissa University College. Gunmen from the al Qaeda-aligned group killed 147 people when they stormed the campus, some 200 kilometers from the Somali border. President Uhuru Kenyatta had promised to respond to the attack “in the severest way possible”.Cloud cover made it difficult to establish how much damage the bombings caused or estimate the death toll. “We targeted the two areas because, according to information we have, those al Shabaab fellows are coming from there to attack Kenya,” the source said. Army spokesman David Obonyo confirmed the raids.Kenya has struggled to stop the flow of al Shabaab militants and weapons across its porous 700km border with Somalia.Al Shabaab militants have killed more than 400 people in Kenya since April 2013.

Somali Leaders To Name Terror Allies In 7 Days

07 April – Source: The Star Kenya – 604 Words

Political leaders from Northeastern have vowed to furnish the State with the names of suspected terrorists, their financiers and sympathisers in a week’s time. The leaders at the same times pledged Sh15 million to the families of the victims of the Garissa University College terror attack in which over 148 students were butchered in cold blood by al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants. Over 80 others were injured when the gun-toting terrorists stormed the Moi University affiliated campus in the wee hours of Thursday morning. In what appeared to give credence to claims of collaboration amongst local communities with the al Shabaab terror group in the massacre of over 150 students of Garissa University, the leaders seemed to admit that the killers were aided by local agents. “We recognise the reality of collaborators amongst our communities, and we will, with immediate effect, commence to identify, document and expose the members and financiers and sympathisers of al Shabaab,” the leaders said in a statement.

There have been concerns that the terrorists may have been aided by local partners to access the university, where they butchered students in a 15-hour hostage carnage before they were gunned down. The leaders included Majority leader of the National Assembly Adan Duale and Governors Ahmed Abdullahi (Wajir), Ali Roba (Mandera) and Nathif Jama (Garissa), among a host of MPs. They termed the Garissa University attack on learners as based on a barbaric ideology that does not proclaim Islam and pledged their “unwavering commitment” to fight al Shabaab. “We are cognisant of the fact that murderous criminals, purporting to profess our faith of Islam, have committed this heinous act. We want to disassociate ourselves and our Islamic faith from the actions of these demented monsters,” said Duale, who read the statement on the Northeastern leaders’ behalf. “They are not Muslims and do not represent us. We will do everything in our power to expose and eliminate them from our midst.”

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

Somali President: Kenya Should Not Build Wall

07 April – Source : VOA – 339 Words

Somalia’s president is urging Kenya to avoid drastic measures as it tries to stop cross-border attacks by al-Shabab. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud spoke exclusively to VOA Somali on Sunday, three days after Al-Shabab gunmen massacred scores of students at Kenya’s Garissa University College. Mohamud objected to calls by some Kenyan politicians to deport all Somali refugees or to build a wall along the Kenyan-Somali border. He rejected accusations the refugees, who mostly live in the Dadaab refugee camps, are responsible for insecurity in Kenya.”That is not true, and whoever said that does not understand al-Shabab’s culture,” said Mohamud.

“One of the gunmen [was] identified as the son of a Kenyan official and that is an example; he is not from the refugee camp nor Somalia. I do not believe there is a connection between Somali refugees living in Dadaab camps and terrorism activities.” The Somali president also said building a wall along the 680-kilometer-long border would be pointless. “We are fighting against an ideology, not fighters or soldiers that have bases,” he said. “A separation wall can not stop an ideology. The Kenyan government has not officially notified us about the plan, but if they do, we will share with them about our experience about that. We do not believe a wall can stop al-Shabab hostility.”

Kenya Foreign Minister Calls Attack Response ‘Adequate’

06 April – Source : CNN – 326 Words

Kenya’s response to Thursday’s attack at Garissa University College was “adequate,” Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday.A Kenyan police source has told CNN that the country’s rapid response team was delayed hours getting to the scene because they could not arrange transport, and was beaten to Garissa by Nairobi-based journalists. “One cannot actually say that the response was slow,” Foreign Minister Mohamed told Amanpour. “Obviously when parents are grieving and the country is mourning, it’s always easy to fall back on things like that, but I can assure you that we took very quick action as soon as this was reported.” “What is adequate,” Amanpour asked, “about a hundred and fifty people face down on the ground, many of them shot in the head execution style, and parents and students saying ‘we were waiting for several hours before anybody came to try to stop this.’?””You know, again Christiane, obviously hindsight is always twenty-twenty,” Mohamed said. “We did everything that we could do.”

“One person killed by a terrorist attack is one too many. One hundred forty seven is too many.”The foreign minister praised the “inter-agency cooperation” of the response, saying it “was so much of a higher level than what we’ve seen before, and what we’ve seen even in other countries.” “So we did our best with the resources that we had. She promised to “root out these terrorists from our country” and “to them where they are based — and as you know, they [al Shabab] are based in Somalia.It was revealed on Sunday that one of the terrorists involved in the attack was not a Somali, however, but the Kenyan son of a government official. “Obviously we are as shocked as everybody else that one of the terrorists was a student that went to school here, and that he’s Kenyan.” “We cannot predict, and you cannot predict who will be next.”

Shabab Militants Learning To Kill On A Shoestring

06 April – Source: The New York Times – 1,464 Words

They have lost their leader, their ports, their checkpoints and their territory. They have lost thousands of men and much of their money. They have no fleet of armored personnel carriers like Boko Haram’s. Or poppy fields like the Taliban’s. Or oil fields like the Islamic State’s. In the pecking order of the world’s leading terrorist groups, the Shabab militants, based in Somalia, operate on a shoestring budget. But as the attack on a Kenyan university last week showed, they have become proficient in something terrible: mass murder on the cheap. In the past two years, bare-bones Shabab teams of young gunmen have struck across Kenya, at a mall, on buses, at a quarry, in a coastal village and last week at a university, where four militants with rudimentary assault rifles killed 142 students. In all, they have slaughtered hundreds of people and shaken Kenya, an economic powerhouse and cornerstone of stability in this part of Africa, with just a few men and a handful of light weapons.

“I call it the dumbing down of terrorism,” said Matt Bryden, a researcher in Nairobi who has been working on Somalia for more than 20 years. “They keep it simple. They’re lightly armed, highly disciplined and relatively well trained.” “They’ve definitely lost some of their major revenue flows,” he added. “But they’ve managed to survive a lean season.” Despite a major international military effort in recent years to retake Somalia and push the Shabab out of their strongholds, especially ports on the Somali coast, Shabab fighters are proving to be frighteningly resilient. As the Shabab have shown with their latest attacks, it is not all about territory. Analysts say they lead a grueling existence, moving constantly from threadbare village to threadbare village, living off the land in one of the poorest lands on earth. All the theories about how to stop them do not seem to be working. The Obama administration is deeply worried that the Shabab, one of most violent branches of Al Qaeda, might strike on American soil, and the strategy against them has been to eliminate their leaders and deny them sanctuaries where they can plot operations. In conventional military terms, the Shabab are losing. They have been routed from many areas, and are no longer able to rake in millions of dollars by shipping out mountains of charcoal or importing cars, as they did just a few years ago. Even in the small towns in Somalia they still control, Shabab fighters are not safe. They are relentlessly hunted — from above.

Federal Civil Rights Officials To Visit St. Cloud High School Over Somali Student Allegations

06 April – Source : CNN – 302 Words

A federal civil rights office will visit St. Cloud Technical High School next week in the wake of claims by Somali students that they’ve been harassed for their religion, dress and culture. The students walked out of classes twice last month in protest over what they said was the administration’s weak response to their concerns. The visit from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights will bring together administrators and student representatives, said district spokeswoman Tami DeLand. News of the meeting was welcomed by a spokesman for the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.“Somali students from St. Cloud Technical Senior High School that we spoke with have reported a number of incidents of harassment and bullying by students targeting Somali students,” Jaylani Hussein said in a statement issued Monday.

About 100 students walked out of classes March 18 at Technical High School after learning that a white classmate had posted a picture online of a Somali student and suggested she was part of the Islamic militant group known as ISIL. Other Somali students complained that students spat on them, knocked coffee cups out of their hands, jumped on the cafeteria tables and stomped on their lunches or told them to go back to Somalia. A second walkout erupted two days later when students said they felt the administration was not doing enough to stop the harassment. The St. Cloud School District has been operating under an agreement with the Office for Civil Rights since 2012, after a Somali student’s complaint of harassment led to a federal civil rights investigation. The agreement required that the district make its schools more welcoming to Somali students, but found that the district broke no federal rules in handling the incidents of alleged harassment of Muslim students at two St. Cloud high schools.

SOCIAL MEDIA

CULTURE / OPINION / EDITORIAL / ANALYSIS / BLOGS/ DISCUSSION BOARDS

“Is this a real solution or just a diversion? For a long time we have lived under the illusion that terrorism is an exclusively Somali import.Now we know that it is also deeply embedded in Kenya.The young fellows who set out on the route of death and destruction are just as likely to be home-bred.”

Don’t Blame It On Refugees, The New Terrorist Is Nurtured Here At Home

06 April – Source: Daily Nation – 689 Words

National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale seems to have undergone a conversion since the Al-Shabaab terrorist massacre in his Garissa Town constituency.Just one year ago, he was at the forefront against a proposal to close down the giant Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa county. That was part of the recommendation in a joint parliamentary committee report on the Westgate Shopping Mall terrorist attack the previous September. Mr Duale vehemently disagreed, defending the rights of refugees to be hosted in Kenya and also their right to move freely in the country instead of being confined to camps.He has also been against the occasional police swoops targeting Somali refugees in Nairobi suburbs such as Eastleigh, arguing that they were investors who contributed greatly to the local economy. “Kenya is a signatory to the Vienna Convention. You just cannot wake up one day and close the refugee camps as recommended in this report,” the MP told Parliament in March last year.What struck me at the time was the hypocrisy in the garrulous Jubilee coalition Majority Leader pushing an argument based on Kenya adhering to international treaties and conventions, yet he was previously the loudest voice for such agreements, citing the International Crimes Act, to be torn up.

Today, the Garissa Town MP wants Dadaab closed. He led a group of leaders from the North-Eastern region demanding that the cluster of refugee camps be shut.“The camps have been the centres where the training, coordination, and assembly of terror networks is done… time has come when the national security of our people becomes paramount over international obligations,” he intoned. Is this a real solution or just a diversion? For a long time we have lived under the illusion that terrorism is an exclusively Somali import.Now we know that it is also deeply embedded in Kenya.The young fellows who set out on the route of death and destruction are just as likely to be home-bred. They are Kenyan-born citizens who learnt the warped ideology of jihadism and the craft of firing guns and detonating bombs right here in the madrassas, mosques, and community centres of Nairobi, Mandera, Mombasa, Garissa, and Wajir that have been taken over by extremist groups.

“Hours before the attack in Garissa began, President Uhuru Kenyatta said Kenya “is as safe as any country in the world”. “There is no sure-fire prevention against terrorist attacks,” said Abdullahi Boru Halakhe, an academic and expert on the region. “But the scale of the Garissa attack, the prior warning and the regularity with which these attacks have been occurring, points to systemic state failure — and the buck stops with the president,” he told AFP.”

Marginalisation, Mismanagement Provoked Kenya Massacre: Experts

06 April – Source: AFP/Yahoo News – 711 Words

Kenya’s government says the university massacre of 148 people was a “surprise” that could happen anywhere: but experts say decades of marginalisation coupled with government failings meant the attack was hardly unexpected. The attack on the university in the northeastern town of Garissa last Thursday was Kenya’s deadliest since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, and the bloodiest ever by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab militants. But experts say the anger that drove the gunmen has a long and dark history in an impoverished region — and they warn that without concerted action, the attacks wont stop. Kenya’s ethnic Somali northeastern region — where Garissa is one of the main towns — is also claimed by the Shehab as part of Somalia itself. The region has long been lawless and was the scene of the brutal secessionist 1963-1967 “Shifta war”. “Since independence, Kenya was built on the principle of division of the country,” said Benoit Hazard, from France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Interior Minster Joseph Nkaissery has said the university attack was “one of those incidents which can surprise any country.” But a Shebab statement on Friday — warning Kenyans of further bloodshed — said the gunmen carried out the Garissa attack in revenge for the “systematic persecution of the Muslims in Kenya”. Attacks cited include Kenya’s 1984 Wagalla massacre, when Kenyan troops trying to put down local conflict killed an unknown number of people — officially less than a hundred, while others claims up to 5,000 people. “Kenyan security forces have a deeply troubling record in northeast Kenya since the 1960s: killings, unlawful detention, torture, rape and sexual violence,” said Leslie Lefkow from Human Rights Watch. “Punishment of entire communities has been the routine response to insecurity.” There has been growing criticism in the media that critical intelligence warnings were missed, while Western nations have issued a string of foreign travel warnings.

“In the murky world of Somali armed groups, politics and clan loyalties, Madobe’s forces helped Kenyan forces seize the key port of Kismayo in 2012. While Mohamud is on the run, Madobe now leads southern Somalia’s Jubaland region. But under pressure on their home soil, the Shebab have reached into Kenya to carry out attacks and find recruits among disaffected youth in the Muslim-majority coastal and northeast regions.”

‘Gentle’ Ex-Teacher Accused Of Masterminding Kenya Massacre

03 April – Source: AFP/Yahoo News

Kenyan police have named homegrown militant Islamist Mohamed Mohamud, a soft-spoken former teacher, as the alleged mastermind of the massacre of 148 people in a university in Garissa. Known also by the alias ‘Kuno’, as well as ‘Dulyadin’ and ‘Gamadhere’ — meaning “long armed” and “ambidextrous” — the alleged Shebab member is also wanted in connection with a string of recent cross-border killings and massacres in Kenya’s northeastern border region. Police have offered a 20 million shilling ($215,000, 200,000 euro) bounty for information leading to his capture. Mohamud is a Kenyan national and an ethnic Somali — like more than two million other Kenyans or some six percent of the population. The minority mainly lives in the country’s vast, impoverished and arid northeast, where Garissa is one of the largest towns. Kenya’s ethnic Somali region is also claimed by the Shehab as part of Somalia itself, and has long been lawless, including the brutal secessionist 1963-1967 “Shifta war”.
While Mohamud, thought to be in his late 50s, did not take part physically in the Garissa attack, students who survived the massacre described the attackers as men like him: speaking Kenya’s Swahili language well, with some suggesting they may have been Kenyan too. One of those arrested of suspicion of supporting the gunmen include a Tanzanian — found hiding in a ceiling with grenades — and a university security guard, a Kenyan ethnic Somali, according to the interior ministry. Mohamud was reportedly born in Ethiopia into the powerful Somali Ogaden clan, which controls the region where Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia meet. Photographs show a slender man with a short beard. Kenyan police sources say he was a teacher and then headmaster of a madrassa in Garissa, but later became radicalised and crossed the porous border into southern Somalia to join the Islamic Courts Union, a precursor to the Shebab. An AFP correspondent who met him in the Somali capital Mogadishu in 2008 and 2009, when the majority of the city was under Shebab control, said Mohamud was a well-known and hardline commander. He commanded a much feared Islamist unit in Mogadishu called the “Jugta-Culus” — or “heavy strikers”, who carried out some of the toughest fighting. Mohamud, however, also appeared in person as educated as well as “quiet and gentle”.

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An AMISOM medical officer takes a woman’s blood pressure at a free medical clinic provided in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. AMISOM continues to support and provide residents with regular free medical services to improve the general health and wellbeing of the Somali people. #WorldHealthDay Photo: AMISOM