November 9, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

Speaker Jawaari Makes Comeback As Jubbaland And South West States Elect MPs (Goobjoog News)
Burhakabo DC Dies Of Injuries Sustained In An-Al-Shabaab Attack (Garowe Online)
30 People Wounded As Football Hooliganism Erupts At Hargeisa Stadium (Hiiraan Online)
US Court Sentences 3 Somali Pirates; 2 Get Life (Associated Press)
Ships More At Risk After First Somali Pirate Attack In Years: Officials (Reuters)
Somalia To Move Yemen Embassy From Sanaa To Aden (Word Bulletin)
Somali Refugee Poised To Head To Minnesota State House (The Wall Street Journal)
Why Somali Convenience Store Workers Are The Targets Of Political Violence In South Africa (Los Angeles Times)

Lower House Voting Kicks Off In Jubbaland And Southwest States (Goobjoog News)
Intense Battle Flares Up Again In Galkacyo (Shabelle News)
UN Expresses Concern Over Galkayo Peace Deal Collapse (Goobjoog News)
Elasha Biyaha District Commissioner Survives Assassination Attempt (Shabelle News)
Civilians Must Be Spared From Fighting (ICRC)
IFJ Mourns Death Of Radio Journalist In Central Somalia (IFJ)
Raysut Cement Somaliland Plant Plan ‘Progressing Well’ (Trade Arabia)
The Need For Somaliland Drought Mitigation Policy (Wardheer News)

Presidents Guled And Gaas Instruct Their Military Commanders To Implement Ceasefire In Galkayo In Presence of PM Sharmarke And SRSG Keating (UNSOM)
Allied Forces Push Al-Shabaab Out Of New Areas In Central Somalia (Garowe Online)
Hirshabelle Administration Set To Elect Its Upper House Representatives (Hiiraan Online)
Presidential Candidate Farole Calls To End Clashes In Galkayo (Garowe Online)
Prospect Of Offshore Oil Offers Mixed Blessing For Somalia (Reuters)
Iran: Political Bids On Crew Hijacked By Somali Pirates Impossible (Trend News Agency)
Somali Presidential Candidate: More Violence Expected As Elections Inch Closer (Deutsche Welle‎)
Architecture Around Somalia’s Electoral Process Is Finitely More Robust Than In 2012 – UN Envoy (UN News Centre)

Lower House Elections Need To Be Completed In The Next 3 days FIEIT Says (Dhacdo.com)
UPDATE: 29 Die In Renewed Fighting In Galkayo (Hiiraan Online)
Residents Flee Somali Town Of Galkayo In Fear Of New Clashes (Goobjoog News)
Somalia’s President Rejects Allegation That Government Took Part In Galkayo Fighting (Garowe Online)
Somalia Leads In Offering To Vote For Amina In AU Post (Capital FM)
Why Trump Warned About ‘Somali Refugees’ — And Why It Could Backfire (The Washington Post)
Kenyans Again Deny UN Report Of Illegal Charcoal Trade In Somalia (Xinhua)
ISIS’s Somali Franchise Seizes Qandala: Background And Significance (Bellingcat.com)

Ceasefire Between Somalia’s Puntland And Galmudug Collapses 20 Killed (Reuters)
Lower House Elections In Puntland Enter Second Day (AMISOM)
South West State President Sharif Hassan Joins List Of Somali Federal Presidential Candidates (Goobjoog News)
Somali Journalist Killed In Galkayo (Goobjoog News)
Somalia Opens First Graduate Health Science School (Anadolu Agency)
Al-Shabaab Fires Mortars Outside Somalia’s AU Camp (Xinhua)
Somalia’s Al-Shabaab Still Potent Threat UN Report Warns (AFP)
Al-Shabaab Claims Fatal Car Bomb Attack Near Somali Parliament (Reuters)
Lack of Ideology Is Somalia’s Problem – Museveni (New Vision)
We Should Formalise Cross Border Trade With Somalia (The Star)

HirShabelle Upper House Elections Will Happen November 6 President Osoble Says (Radio Muqdisho)
Siilaanyo Galaydh Meet In Addis Ababa (Hiiraan Online)
Somali Immigration Department Opens New Office In Adado City (Shabelle News)
Burundi MPs Call For Bringing Troops Back From Somalia (Anadolu Agency)
Kenya Warned Against Closing World’s Largest Refugee Camp (Associated Press)
Somalia Launches First Ever-cleft Lip And Palate Surgery Clinic (AMISOM)
Economic Solutions Are Crucial To Help Solve Somalia’s Political Woes (London School of Economics blog)
Pastoralists Feed Animals With Cardboard As Drought Worsens In Northeastern Somalia (Radio Ergo)

SRSG Keating Welcomes Agreement Reached In Abu Dhabi To Defuse Crisis In Gaalkacyo (UNSOM)
Somali President Welcomes The Abu Dhabi Peace Agreement Signed By Puntland And Galmudug Over Galkayo Conflict (Villa Somalia)
Preparation In Progress For Lower House Elections In Puntland (Garowe Online)
Six Dead 10 Injured In Abudwak Tribal Clashes (Shabelle News)
Al-Shabaab Behind Attack On KDF Death Toll Rises To 4 (Shabelle News)
German Delegation Tours Future Centre For Disengaged Former Combatants in Kismaayo (AMISOM)
EU Confirms Its Unwavering Commitment To The Somali People (EU Delegation To Somalia)
Arrested Students Had Been Going To Somalia Join Al-Shabaab Police Say (Daily Nation)
How A Somali-American Muslim Woman Candidate Is Mobilizing Millennial Voters In Minnesota (The Nation)

Puntland Prepares To Assault ISIS Affiliates In Qandala Foreign Warships Fires Them (Goobjoog News)
20 Arrested In Mogadishu Security Operation (Dhacdo.com)
Interview with HirShabelle President (Radio Muqdisho)
Somali PM: Elections Will Take Place As Scheduled (Jowhar.com)
Three Men Charged In Alleged Hate Crime Against Somali Man (NBC News)
US Supports Media Representatives on International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists(United States Mission To Somalia)
Rival Terror Groups — ISIS And Al-Shabaab — Descend on Somalia Making Life Even More Perilous for Christians (Christian Today)
The Perpetual Transition In Somalia (Institute for Security Studies)

Somali President Calls For The Protection Of Journalists (Hiiraan Online)
Puntland President Rejects Claims Of Grants Diversion Sheds Light On Situation In Qandala (Garowe Online)
Somali Police Arrests Two suspected Al-Shabaab Assassins In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
Airstrikes Bomb Al-Shabaab Areas In Southern Somalia (Garowe Online)
Electoral Oversight Body Gives Thumbs Up To Galmudug And Puntland States For High Level Of Electoral Preparedness (AMISOM)
UPDF Has Done Uganda Proud In Somalia – Gen. Lakara (New Vision)
Mother Back Home After Two Years In Captivity By Pirates In Somalia (Daily Nation)
Economic Solutions Are Crucial To Help Solve Somalia’s Political Woes (LSE Blog)

ISIL Surrogate Still In Control Of Somali Town A Week After Capture – Official (Goobjoog News)
MP Calls Puntland President For Clarity On Financial Donation (Garowe Online)
Warring Regions In Somalia Agree To Immediate Ceasefire In UAE Sponsored Talks (Goobjoog News)
Suspected U.S. Jets Bomb Al-Shabaab Base Near Mogadishu (Shabelle News)
California Cabbie Who Aided Terror Group Returned To Somalia (Associated Press)
Abu Dhabi Meeting: A Quest To Steal Somalia’s Election And Maritime Territory (Wardheer News)