July 4, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somali President To Name New Intelligence Chief Soon (Goobjooge)
Puntland Leader In Galkayo Amid Worsening Insecurity (Shabelle News)
Gas Replacing Charcoal For Cooking In Northeastern Somalia (Radio Ergo)
A Civilian Shot Dead In Clan Revenge Attack In Somalia (Shabelle News)
Jitters Over Somalia’s Proposed Law To Protect Women (Daily Nation)
Provincial Funding In Limbo As Edmonton’s Somali Community Identifies Root Causes Of Violence(Edmonton Sun)
Some Refugees Returning Home To Help Rebuild Somalia (WAMC)

AU And SNA Move To Capture Back Rabdhure (Goobjoog News)
A Senior SNA Commander Injured In Gun Attack (Shabelle News)
Security Forces Seize Bomb-laden Car In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
Militant Mortar Fire Kills Two In Somalia (The Gulf Today)
Kenya Government Begins With Repatriation Of Somali Refugees (Xinhua)
Minnesota Woman’s Guilty Plea Revealed In Case Against Alleged Ringleaders Of Online Network (Star Tribune)

Somalia Commemorates Its Independence Day (Goobjoog News)
US Removes Somali Businessman From Sanctions List (Hiiraan Online)
Puntland President Holds Security Meeting With Galkayo Security Officials (Goobjoog News)
Somali President Appoints 2016 Federal Electoral Implementation Team (Shabelle News)
Six Killed In Gun Attack On Two Buses In Kenya’s Mandera (Reuters)
Plan To Professionalise Somali Police (New Vision)
On The Path To Peace And Stability (Goobjoog News)

Non-locals In Mandera Barred From Bus Journeys during Ramadan Due To Al-Shabaab Fear (Daily Nation)
Somali Religious Leaders Denounce New Gender Law (Radio Dalsan)
Al-Shabaab Is Suspected In Blast That Killed Pedestrians (Presna Latina)
US: Don’t Fund Child Soldiers Abroad (Human Rights Watch)
Kenyan Refugees May Be Forced To Join Al-Shabaab Or Face Sexual Abuse If Repatriated To Somalia(International Business Times)

At Least 18 Killed By A Roadside Bomb In Somalia (Reuters)
Kenyan Air Force Jets Carry Out Airstrikes In Somalia (Shabelle News)
Administration Of El-Ali locality Claims Victory In Battle With Al-Shabaab In Hiiraan (Goobjoog News)
Somali New Zealanders Held Up By Customs – National MP (NZ Herald)
Step Back For Press Freedom In Somalia (Voice of America)
US Urged To Use ‘Soft Power’ In Somalia (Voice of America)
As Conflict Zone Gets Safer Somalis Go For 3D Movies And Pizza (Bloomberg)

More Than 20 Killed In Central Somalia Fighting (Voice of America)
Elders Say Somaliland Is Fuelling The Fighting In Sool Region (Goobjoog News)
Sheikh Bashir Opposes Sections Of The Gender Law Calls It A Violation To The Sharia Law (Hiiraan Online)
Landmine Explosion Kills A Government Soldier In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
Al-Shabaab Plans To Attack US Forces Prompted Recent Airstrike In Somalia (The Hill)
4 Extremists Killed Averting An Attack (Associated Press)
The Age Of Disintegration (Middle East Online)

Several Al-Shabaab Fighters Killed In Heavy Fighting In Bakool Region (Goobjoog News)
Fishing Vessel Rescues Comorian Sailors Off Jubaland (Garowe Online)
Elders Gathered In Las Anod town For Reconciliation Talks (Goobjoog News)
Corruption Accusations Against EU Somalia Envoy “Nonsense” (Garowe Online)
Missing Boys Found Unresponsive In Willmar’s Foot Lake (West Central Tribune)
Life Stories Of Heidelberg West’s Somali Community Feature In New Book (Herald Sun Leader)
From Williamsville South To The Diplomatic Mission Of A Lifetime Schwartz Tackles Challenge Of Somalia(The Buffalo News Agency)

KDF Kills 40 Al-Shabaab Militants In Airstrikes (Shabelle News)
Three Civilians Shot Dead In Las Anod (Goobjoog News)
UNICEF Calls For Rights Of All Somali Children To Be Respected (Hiiraan Online)
Gunmen Kill Senior Military Officer In Somalia (Xinhua)
Somalia Launches Initiative To Spur Investment (The Journal of Turkish Weekly)
One Somali Family Two Deadly Tragedies (Voice of America)

US Somalia Launch New Chapter In Relations (Voice of America)
SNA Recaptures Gof-gaduud Village From Al-Shabaab Fighters (Goobjoog News)
Suspected US Surveillance Aircraft Crashes In Somalia (Shabelle News)
Traditional Elders Call For Immediate Cease-fire Between Warring Clans In Sool Region (Goobjoog News)
Mogadishu Moves On After Beach Attack (BBC)
Somalia Rides The Ups And Downs Of A Global Oil Crisis (Al Jazeera)
Kenya Clamps Down On Journalists Covering War On Al-Shabaab (The Guardian)

UNSC Urges Prevention of Financing Al-Shabaab Other Terrorist Group In Somalia (Kuwait News Agency)
Mauritania Foreign Minister Visits Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
Puntland Former Minister Calls On Government To Reopen Radio Daljir (Garowe Online)
UAE-based Expat Killed In Somalia Attack (Gulf News)
Ancient Caves In Somalia Prone To Erosion (Press TV)
As The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Closes Some Kenyans Struggle To Prove They Belong In Kenya(Quartz Africa)