January 13, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

AU envoy to Somalia: Rwanda’s past challenges can be experience for Somalia (Radio Goobjoog)
Two dead bodies found in Kismayo (Radio Bar-Kulan)
Burundi’s Defence Forces Chief Visited in Mogadishu (Radio Mustaqbal)
Measles claims 10 in besieged Burdubo (Radio Ergo)
Hiran region administration welcomes new government (Radio Bar-Kulan)
New Somalia PM retains majority of his predecessor’s cabinet ministers (Daily Nation/AFP)
Fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia: Lessons learned from the contact group (EU Bulletin)
Somalia prime minister keeps finance minister in cabinet change (Bloomberg News)

January 12, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

Somali PM names new cabinet (Hiiraan Online)
Increase in the prices of food in Bakol markets worsens the dire situation in the region (Radio Goobjoog)
Somali Diaspora conference opens in Kigali (Radio Goobjoog)
Al Shabaab claims credit for Bossaso grenade attack (Garowe Online)
Kenya Djibouti foreign ministers praise Mogadishu security (Somali Current)
Juba administration forces arrests suspects after landmine attack (Alshahid)
100 Somali MPs warn President against having his close aides in the cabinet (Dalsan Radio)
Mourning in Somalia as former Ocean Stars player dies (Mareeg Media)
Somalia hosts IGAD meeting after 30 years (Daily Nation)
Amina visits KDF soldiers in Somalia (The Star)
IGAD champions integration of Somali forces (African Press Agency/Star Africa)
Calgary’s Somali community gathers to discuss troubling increase in violence (CTV)

January 12, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

January 12, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

Mohamed Affey: We are in no doubt that 2016 elections will take place (Radio Goobjoog/Radio Muqdisho)
Somaliland main electricity company privatized (Radio Bar-Kulan)
Gunmen attack Bossaso central police station (Radio RBC)
Somali American Jihadist appears in released Al-Shabaab footage (Somali Current)
Djibouti to increase peacekeeping force (Garowe Online)
Somali PM meets UK ambassador (Radio Bar-Kulan)
Army court ignores commander’s plea (Daily Monitor)
Somali refugees in Kenyan camps queue up to return home (Sabahi Online)
East Africa ministers meet in Somalia for peace push (AFP/Yahoo News)
Blast hits troop convoy in Somalia’s Kismayu (Reuters)
More Minnesota Somalis go back to a slowly rebuilding Somalia (Star Tribune)

January 9, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

El-Garas administration denies the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from parts of Galgaduud region (Radio Goobjoog)
Somaliland: Defense Minister rejects Puntland president’s statement on Al-Shabaab entry into Somaliland (Somaliland Sun)
Somali group wants $4.35 million in state money to fight international terrorist recruitment (Radio Goobjoog)
Al-Shabaab burns food aid vehicles in Bay region (Sabahi Online)
Kiyonga urges Somali soldiers compensation (The Observer)
Somalia’s Shabaab praises ‘heroic’ Charlie Hebdo massacre (Deccan Chronicle/African/APF)
Canadian appears in terror group’s propaganda video two years after being killed in Somalia (National Post)
When football was outlawed (BBC Sports Hour)

January 9, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

January 9, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

AU envoys declares that Al-shabab lost 80% of the areas under their control (Radio Goobjoog)
Somalia prepares to host IGAD foreign ministers meeting in Mogadishu (Somali Current)
Two killed in Mogadishu landmine explosion (Radio Bar-Kulan)
Mogadishu traders demand services for taxes (Radio Ergo)
Minister Darwish inaugurates new government offices (Jubbalandi Media)
Kiyonga tells Somalia to build own army (Daily Monitor)
Qatar charity hosts festival for Somali orphans (Peninsula Qatar)
AMISOM re-evaluates priorities at Kampala meeting (AMISOM News)
Twin cities muslims denounce Paris terror attack (FOX News DC)
Somalia’s Shabaab claims to execute 7 ‘agents’- UPDATE (World Bulletin)

January 8, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

Vehicles ferrying food aid were set ablaze (Radio Danan)
Ethiopian troops withdrew from parts of Galgadud region (Radio Goobjoog)
New Turkish consul General Ramis Sen visits Somali community in Minnesota (Global Somali Diaspora/Hiiraan Online)
Somali forces close parts of Maka Al-Mukarama road (Radio Goobjoog)
Pests attack farms in Bay and Bakool (Radio Danan)
Displaced farmers trained to resume production (Radio Ergo)
AU Commissioner of Peace and Security visits Somalia (AMISOM)
Al-Shabaab executes 4 in Gedo accused of spying (Sabahi Online)
Roundup: Somalia peace process needs paradigm shift to address realities: experts (Xinhua News)
AU calls for more humanitarian aid to Somalia (Press TV)

January 8, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

January 8, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

Somali government warns illegal companies operating in Somalia (Horseed Media)
Somali president meets with AU Commissioner for Peace & Security (Mareeg Media)
Body of slain Somali engineer arrives in Mogadishu (Radio Bar-Kulan)
Fire guts 30 tents in an IDP camp (Radio Goobjoog)
IMB concerned over decision to compensate pirates (Horseed Media)
Somalia: Uganda wants compensation for lost lives (New Vision)
African Union says military still weakening Somalia’s Al-Shabaab (Reuters)
Somali militants execute alleged U.S. intelligence agency spy (Bloomberg News)

January 7, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

Hundreds of families flee their homes in Mudug due to dire shortages of food and water (Radio Goobjoog)
Mobile library on the road in Garowe (Radio Ergo)
Political alliances emerge (Dalsan Radio)
U.S Senator Al Franken appoints his first Somali staffer (Somali Current)
Britain prepares to send security advisors (Geeska Afrika)
Somalia’s Shabaab militants ‘execute informers’ (Capital FM)
Somalia forms counter-terrorism police unit (Sabahi Online)
Suspected Islamist car bombing badly injures Somali lecturer (Reuters)
Average Mohamed counters terror message with cartoon videos (Washington Post)

January 7, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

January 7, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

AMISOM donates medical supplies to Beledweyne hospital (Radio Goobjoog)
20 militants killed in Galgala offensive (Garowe Online)
Tough New Year for the media (Dalsan Radio)
Puntland claims victory over Al-shabaab in Gal-Gala (Somali Current)
Heavy fighting between government forces and Al-Shabab fighters in Bakool Region (Radio Goobjoog)
Ugandan court further remands ten Al-Shabaab terror suspects (Coastweek.com)
About 60 people killed in northeastern Somalia attack (Press TV)
Kenyan businessman reported missing along Kenya-Somalia border (Xinuan.net/Hiiraan Online)
Chinese Ambassador meets with Somali acting ministers (Chinese Embassy)

January 6, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

7 Shabaab, 2 Somali soldiers killed in Galgala clashes 05 Jan – Source: World Bulletin – 218 Words At least seven Al-Shabaab fighters and two government soldiers were killed on Mondayduring an army offensive against the group’s main base in Somalia’s Galgala Mountains region. “Puntland forces targeted Diine Digle, where Al-Shabab has a military base,” […]