October 25, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

Wheelbarrow Bomb Kills Man Pushing It In Somalia’s Puntland Police Say (Reuters)
Somaliland Presidential Campaign In High Gear While Some Tribal Elders Advocate For Clan Voting (Goobjoog News)
Ethiopia PM Says Al-Shabaab Behind Mogadishu Blast Vows Renewed Combat ( Africa News)
Somali Prime Minister To Visit Turkey On Wednesday (Anadolu Agency)
More Than 130 Somali Refugees Repatriated From Yemen (VOA)
This Was Not ‘Just Another Bomb In Mogadishu’. It Will Destroy Al-Shabaab (The Guardian)

Mayor Thabit Opens Counselling Center For October 14 Survivors (Radio Dalsan)
We Need To Settle Our Differences Amicably And Forgive One Another- PM Khaire (Gooobjoog News)
Ethiopia Affirms Solidarity With Somalia In Fighting Al-Shabaab (Shabelle News)
AMISOM Force Commander Reiterates The Mission’s Continued Support To Somali National Army (AMISOM)
AU Calls For More Funding For Its Peacekeeping Mission In Somalia (Xinhuanet)
I Was An Eyewitness To The Mogadishu Bomb. I’m Alive But Heartbroken (The Guardian)

Two Somali Soldiers Wounded In Gun Fight With Fellow Troops (Reuters)
President Farmajo Arrives In Addis Ababa (Garowe Online)
Puntland Police Commissioner Sacked Placed Under House Arrest (Garowe Online)
Truck Bombing: Turkey To Send Another Doctor To Somalia (Anadolu Agency)
Somali Diaspora: Blast Won’t Stop Effort To Rebuild Homeland (McClatchy DC Bureau)
How Many Dead Somalis Does It Take For Us To Care? (The Guardian)

Militants Attack Somali Military Base Kill At Least 15 (Reuters)
AU Envoy Condemns Terror Attack in Mogadishu (Somali Updates)
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre Jet Back To Mogadishu (Jowhar Media)
Turkish Army Chief Of Staff General Arrives In Mogadishu (Hiiraan Online)
UAE Commends UN And AU Missions In Promoting Security And Stability In Somalia (Emirates News Agency)
Somalia: Fishing Trade Sees Boost From Boat Engines Freezers (ICRC)
DP World To Fund Improved Water And Healthcare Access In Somaliland (Emirates News Agency)

Seven Killed By Car Bomb Explosion In Mogadishu (Reuters)
Somali Prime Minister To Reshuffle Cabinet Targeting Key Ministers (Garowe Online)
“I Will Resign If The Killers Of Women Rights Activists Are Not Arrested In 48hrs” Security Minister Dualle Says (Radio Dalsan)
Human Rights Improve In Somalia Big Challenges Remain (Voice of America)
New Beginning For Failed State Somalia? (Deustche Welle)

King Salman Receives Somali President (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Operate On Realistic Revenue Projections IMF Urges Somalia (Goobjoog News)
Conference Between Federal Finance Minister And Regional States Finance Ministers Concluded In Garowe (Dhacdo.com)
Weeks Left To Save East Africa’s Starving Children – World Vision (Reuters)
World Tourism Day: Tourists Are Heading To Somalia To See The Ruins Of A Two-decade Civil War (Quartz Media)

China Vows To Support Somalia’s Peace Reconstruction (Xinhuanet)
AMISOM Regrets The Accident Involving One Of Its Vehicles In Mogadishu (SONNA)
Over 100000 IDPs Evicted From Settlements This Year NGO Says (Somali Update)
UN Rights Mechanism Needed to Document Violations and Provide Accountability in Somalia (Human Right Watch)
Somali Teenagers Flee Al-Shabaab Recruitment Campaign (Voice of America)

President Farmajo In Saudi Arabia To Hold Talks With Saudi King (SONNA)
Women Organization Official And Son Of The Chairperson Killed In Drive-by Shooting In Mogadishu(Goobjoog News)
Shabelle River on the Brink of Flooding Risking 20 Villages Around Jowhar (Somali Update)
UN Trains Somalia Security Forces On Humanitarian Law (Xinhuanet)
The Battle For Survival In Somalia (Deutsche Welle)
The Gulf Contest For The Horn Of Africa (Criticathreats.org)

Galmudug MPs Vote Out President Ahmed Dualle Geelle Haaf (Garowe Online)
Jubbaland Leader Madobe Urges Calm Over Gulf Feud Disputes Calls For Talks (Goobjoog News)
Southwest State Assembly Opposes Siding With Saudi-Led Bloc (Radio Shabelle)
Deputy Secretary Reinforces U.S. Support For Defeating Al-Shabab ISIS (Defense.gov)
Statement At The House Of The People On The Amended Media Law (SONNA)

President Farmaajo Set To Make Third Trip To Saudi Arabia (Jowhar Media)
Boost For Amisom As It Receives 19 Combat Vehicles From US (Googjoog News)
Somali MPs To Table Motion Against UAE Envoy For “Criminal Acts” & “Interference” (Radio Dalsan)
Somalia AU Forces Seek Solution To Improvised Explosive Devices (Xinhua Net)
Ethiopia Says Somaliland Displaced Thousands of Oromo People (Bloomberg Politics)
The Crocodile Tears Of The Extradition of Qalbi-dhagax And The Baseless Greater Somalia Euphoria Beneath it (Wardheere News)