February 2, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

PM Sharmarke Accuses Neighbouring Countries Of Interfering In Somali Elections (Hiiraan Online)
Official From Presidential Election Committee Resigns Over Endorsement (Garowe Online)
Ethiopian Migrants Stream Into Puntland VP Of Puntland Says (Goobjoog News)
3 Decapitated Bodies Found in Somalia After Abduction (Associated Press)
Reopen Liboi Border Point For Trade – MP (The Star Kenya)
UN: Somalia Needs Urgent Aid To Avert Famine (VOA)

Outspoken 4.5 Critic Fadumo Dayib Axed From Integrity Committee Barely 72 Hours After Appointment (Goobjoog News)
Presidential Candidates To Address Somali Parliament On 2nd 3rd and 5th February( Goobjoog News)
Two Killed Several Injured In Al Shabaab Attack Near Hudur Town (Garowe Online)
Security Forces Conduct Massive Operations In The Country’s South West (Garowe)
Kenyans Among Shabaab Fighters Who Attacked KDF (The Star Kenya)
Man 20 Pleads Guilty For Attempting To Sneak Into Somalia (Daily Nation)
Building Peace Through Border Control In Puntland Somalia (Transconflict)

Candidates Walk Out Of A Presidential Debate Over Coverage Failure (Garowe Online)
More Than 80% Of Presidential Candidates Hold Foreign Passports (Goobjoog News)
The Re-Election Of Nullified Seats Start In Puntland Region (Garowe Online)
Qatar Charity Opens Model Health Centre In Jazeera Region Of Somalia (The Peninsula)
Trump’s Immigrant Ban Adds To The Horrifying Ordeals Somali Refugees Face (The Quartz)
Somalia: The Beginning Or The End? ? (New York Times)

Presidential Candidates Lodge A Complaint Against One Of The Electoral Committee Members (Horseed Media)
Puntland President Launches Road Project Between Qardho Bayla (Garowe Online)
Farmajo Urges Regional State Presidents To Remain Neutral In The Election (Jowhar.com)
Drought Response Committee Receives $91835 From Arab League (Jowhar.com)
AMISOM Police Launches Third Phase Of Police Recruitment Training In Jubaland (AMISOM)
Somalia’s Law Courts Receive Praise For Prescribing Tough Penalties For Gender Based Violence As Youth Engage In The Preventative Measures (AMISOM)
To Get Story Somali Journalists Risk Bullets and Bombs (VOA)

At least 32 Die In Somalia After Drinking From Well (IOL News)
Nine Eminent Personalities To Oversee Integrity Of Feb 8 Presidential Poll (Goobjoog News)
Mogadishu’s Traffic Cops Say They Are Targeted By Militia Government Troops (Hiiraan Online)
Refugees In Kenya Hit By US Travel Ban After Years Of Waiting For Asylum (The Guardian)
Court To Solve Kenya Somalia Maritime Border Dispute (Daily Nation)
Somali FM: Somalis ‘Finger-Pointed’ By Immigration Ban (VOA)

President Hassan Jets Out Of The Country To Addis Ababa (Jowhar.com)
Restaurant Explosion Injures 7 People In Middle Shabelle (Goobjoog News)
President Hassan Invites Over 100 MPs To Dinner A Week Ahead Of The Presidential Election (Jowhar.com)
Suspects On Police Radar For Financing Al-Shabaab Terrorists (Standard Media)
My Family Waited 13 Years to Resettle In The United States. Then Trump Slammed the Door In Our Faces (Foreign Policy)

Twenty Four Candidates To Face Off In The February 8 Presidential Elections In Somalia (Goobjoog News)
Senior Al-Shabaab Commander Killed In Southern Somalia (Garowe Online)
Southwest Kills Several Al-Shabaab Fighters Seize Assorted Weapons In Bay And Bakool (Goobjoog News)
Galdogob Court Sentences Five Men Convicted Of Gang-rape To Lashes Prison And Fines(Hiiraan Online )
British Official ‘Deeply Concerned’ By Somalia Drought (VOA)
AMISOM Lauds Contribution By Burundi Towards Restoration Of Peace In Somalia (AMISOM)
Stage ‘Gradually Being set’ For Somalia To Move To A New Phase In Sustaining Peace – UN Envoy (UN News Centre)

Keating: Presidential Elections Must Be Free And Fair (VOA Somali)
Presidential Candidates Meet In The Capital Mogadishu (Garowe Online)
One Dies As Al-Shabaab Fighters Attack SNA Military Base In Bardhere (Goobjoog News)
Deadly Attacks On Hotels And Restaurants In Somalia Are Robbing The Country Of Its Last Safe Spaces (Quartz)
Doctors Without Borders Says It Plans To Return To Somalia (The New York Times)
Somalia: No Country For Honest Men (Hiiraan Online)

Opposition Presidential Candidates Call For Fair Play In February 8 Poll (Goobjoog News)
Elders Set To Intervene In Galmudug Political Crises (Shabelle News)
Banadir Administration Hosts Welcoming Event For Presidential Hopeful Farole (Garowe Online)
Hormuud Telecom Donates $600000 To Support Famine Victims (Shabelle News)
Nine Militants Killed In Foiled Attack In Somalia Town (Xinhua)
If Trump Really Knew The Somalis Of Minnesota He Would Rethink His Cruel Ban On Refugees (Forward)

Presidential Candidates’ Registration Kicks Off In Mogadishu Today (jowhar.com)
Seven Somali Journalists Wounded in Mogadishu Suicide Attack (dhacdo.com)
Prominent Somali Elder Injured In Bosaso Attack (Shabelle News)
Somaliland Sets A New Date For Its Presidential Elections (VOA Somali)
How Trump’s Immigration Plans Could Affect Somali-Americans (MPR)
Somali Rape Law Gets First Test (VOA)
1000 Somali Shillings: How Mosques Hold Somalia Together (The Seattle Globalist)