Daily Monitoring Report

April 24, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Mothers Flee Yemen Without Their Children (Radio Ergo)
  • Somali People Stand For The Help Of Their Brotherly Somali Refugees (Goobjoog News)
  • Private Company Granted License To Patrol Puntland Waters (Garowe Online)
  • Kenya’s President Bid Farewell To Former Somali Ambassador To Kenya (Somali Current)
  • The Fresh Jubbaland Parliament To Appoint Speaker (RBC Radio)
  • UPDATE: Al-Shabaab Militants Kill Kidnapped Mandera Chief  (Standard Media)
  • Mother of ISIS Recruit Suspect Voices Shock Disbelief (The Wall Street Journal)
  • Somalia’s Banana Exporters A Happy Lot As Security Improves (AKF Insider)
  • UN Flags At Half Mast In Honour Of Staff Including Two Kenyans Killed In Somalia (The Star Kenya)
  • FA Calls For Troops To Leave Somali Stadium (BBC Sports)
  • Somalia: The Unlikely 2016 Parliament Election Reinstates 4.5 Clan Formula (Hiiraan Online)
  • Syncopation Of Deceptive Words (Wardheer News)

April 23, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Gunmen Murder Civilian In Mogadishu (Radio Danan)
  • Al-Shabaab Vows To Continue Attacks Against UN Agencies (Horseed  Media)
  • Kenyan Terror Suspects Arraigned In Court (Wacaal Media)
  • Somalia Parliament Donates Money For Evacuation Of Citizens In Yemen (Horseed Media)
  • IDPs In Mogadishu Appeal For Immediate Humanitarian Support (Goobjoog News)
  • Somalia National Football Team To Participate 2016 Olympic Qualifications(Somali Current)
  • MCA Wants Somali Herders Sent Away (The Star Kenya)
  • Heads On Block Over Kenya Slaying (Times Live)
  • Rep. Ellison: Terror Recruits Are In The Dark Hard To Reach (Star Tribune)
  • Kenya Wants Donors To Pay For Somali Refugee Eviction Plan (AFP/News 24)
  • Somalia’s Premier Bank To Bring ATMs Debit Cards To Mogadishu (Reuters)
  • Somalia’s Democratic Transformation: Options For 2016 (Sahal Journal)

April 22, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Somali President Says ISIL Are Criminals Against Civilisation (Somali Update)
  • Differences Emerge Between Somalia’s Banadir And South West Regional Administrations (Wacaal Media)
  • Five Killed In Taleh Clan Fighting (Garowe Online)
  • US Designates Top Al Shabab Members As ‘Terrorists’( Horseed Media)
  • 42 Bullet Proof Cars Missing From Somali Government Offices (Garowe Online)
  • Kenya Envisions a Border Wall That Keeps Shabab Violence Out (New York Times)
  • The Splintering Of Somalia Has Crippled Education (Al-Fanar Media)
  • Migrant Shipwreck: One Child’s Journey From Somalia To The Shores Of Italy (The Guardian)
  • AU: Somali Sex Abuse Allegations Largely Unproven (News 24)
  • Work on strategy to pull troops from Somalia Raila tells Government (Standard Digital)
  • Can Shabelle River Flooding Be Controlled? (Garowe Online)
  • Mogadishu Aviation Fire Fighters Refreshing Training  (AMISOM)

April 21, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Somalia Tests Its Capacity To Host International Matches At Home (Somali Update)
  • Somalia Calls For Investment From Asian & African Countries (Goobjoog News)
  • Nicholas Kay arrives in Garowe follow attack on UN staff (Wacaal.com)
  • Somalia Trade With Yemen Stops (Radio Ergo)
  • FBI Arrest 6 Somali Youth In Minnesota (Somali Current)
  • Residents Told Not To Sell Pasture To Somali Herders (The Star Kenya)
  • Two Kenyans Die In Somalia Blast (Daily Nation)
  • Kenya Somalia And UNHCR To Hold Talks On Refugee Relocation (Capital FM)
  • Somalis Claim Entrapment In ISIS Arrests (KARE 11)
  • Disabled Somali Trader Aims To Help Injured Countrymen (News 24)
  • UN Security Council slams attack on UN Vehicle in Somalia (China.org)
  • Garissa Massacre In 2015 V.S Wagalla Massacre Of Wajir In 1984 (Wardheer News)

April 20, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Tens Of Thousands At Risk In Capital After They Forcibly Evicted From Their Homes (Somali Update)
  • After One Year Of Siege On Bullo-burde Residents In Desperate Situation (Goobjoog News)
  • Jubbaland Parliament To Be Inaugurated On Saturday (Wacaal Media)
  • Somali President Attends International Forum On Counter Terrorism In Urdun (RBC Radio)
  • Federal Government Of Somalia Is reviewing Its Production Sharing Agreement (Alshahid.net)
  • Al-Shabab Militants Create Chaos Pain For Somalis (USA Today)
  • Al-Shabaab Suspect Arrested In Wajir (Standard Media)
  • Uhuru: We Won’t pull Out Of Somalia (Daily Nation)
  • This Is Not The Right Time For Somali Refugees In Kenya To Return To Somalia ( Sahan Journal)
  • The UN Protector Of Corrupt Officials Who Steal Aid From Desperate Victims (Daily Nation)

April 17, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Somali Prime Minister Reaffirms Strong Relations With Sweden (Mareeg Media)
  • “People Are Free To Choose Their Leader” Says Interior Minister (Goobjoog News)
  • EU Condemns Somaliland’s Prisoner Executions (Hiraan Online)
  • Four Dead In Mandera Scores Injured (Somali Current)
  • Lightning Kills Two In Southern Somalia.(Radio Danan)
  • Federal Parliament Speaker Meets UN And AU Delegates (Goobjoog News)
  • Kenya ‘Begins Construction’ Of Somalia Security Barrier (Gulf Times)
  • Somali Refugees Reluctant To Return Despite Kenya Directive (Shanghai Daily)
  • After Piracy Crisis Somalia Battles Al-Shabab Unemployment Hunger And An Ineffective Government(International Business Times)
  • Kenya Annexes More Somali Territory With Border Fence (Radio RBC)
  • Why I Call Dadaab Home (Sahan Journal)

April 16, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Elder: Clans Dissatisfied With Jubbaland MPs Selection (Garowe Online)
  • Aden Adde Airport In Mogadishu left Flooding After Heavy Rainfall(Goobjoog News)
  • UN Envoy To Somalia Reaches Adado (Wacaal Media)
  • Kenya Security Wall Invades On Somalia Territory (Somali Current)
  • Interior Minister Drafts Plan To Fight Al-Shabaab (Wacaal Media)
  • Fence Ditches For Somalia Border (The Star Kenya)
  • Tanzanians Lynch Suspected Al Shabaab Militant Police Arrest 10 Others With Explosives In A Mosque(The Star Kenya)
  • Al-Shabab Recruiting In Kenyan Towns (BBC)
  • Kenya Charges 31 Aliens From Somalia (Xinhua/IOL)
  • The Director-General Of UNESCO Condemns Attack On Ministry Of Culture And Higher Education In Mogadishu Somalia (UNESCO)
  • Cadaan Studies: Is Being A Somali Not Enough To Produce Quality Work? (Warya Post)

April 15, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Update: Death Toll Of Ministry For Higher Education’s Attack Rises To 18 (Goobjoog News)
  • IDPs In Elwak Pounded By Rain (Radio Ergo)
  • Hundreds Of Migrants Believed To Have Drowned Off Libya After Boat Capsizes (Goobjoog News)
  • BBC Is The Most Listened To International Radio In Somalia (Mareeg Media)
  • U.S. Special Representative Condemns Attack On Ministry of Education In Mogadishu (Radio Danan)
  • Kenya Ignores Intelligence Info On Al Shabaab Says Somali Commander (The Star Kenya)
  • Gargash Receives Somalia’s FM (Emirates News Agency)
  • Kenyan Money-Transfer Ban Puts Strain On Somalis (Wall Street Journal)
  • Somali Students Tell Feds Of Bullying In St. Cloud Schools (MPR News)
  • Act On Intelligence Avoid Erecting 700km Wall (The Star Kenya)
  • Dispatches: After Garissa Carnage Kenya’s Backlash Begins (Human Rights Watch)

April 14, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Terror Suspects With The Frozen Accounts Appear Before Kenyan CID Headquarters In Nairobi (Radio RBC)
  • Entities In Central Regions Accuse Federal Government Of Sabotage (Goobjoog News)
  • Dadaab Returnees In Squalid Conditions In Baidoa (Radio Ergo)
  • You Cannot Forcefully Relocate Refugees Somalia Tells Kenya (Somali Current)
  • UN Can Help Refugees In Somalia Says Mathira MP (The Star Kenya)
  • Banks Eye More Diaspora Cash After Hawalas Closure (Business Daily Africa)
  • Qatar Somalia Discuss Bilateral Relations (Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Qatar)
  • Somali Refugees Decry Kenya’s Demand That The UN Relocate Their Camp (Al Jazeera)
  • Malawi Somalia To Save Terrified Citizens (Times Live)
  • Could Somalia Be The Best Real Estate Investment In The World? (AFK Insider)
  • Escape Or Die: When Pirates Captured A Cargo Ship Its Crew Faced One Desperate Choice After Another. (The New Yorker)
  • The Blurred Line Between Politics Of Subjectivity And Women Rights (RBC Radio)

April 13, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Suspected Members Of Al-Shabaab Kidnap French NGO Staff In Gedo (Wacaal Media)
  • South West Assembly Selection Process To Start Soon (Goobjoog News)
  • African Union To Help In Rebuilding Somalia National Army (Somali Current)
  • Lower Shabelle Governor: “Al-Shabab Gunmen Attacked My House Last Night” (Goobjoog News)
  • Educational Challenges In Post-transitional Somalia: Case Study Mogadishu (Somali Update)
  • Northeastern Leaders Tell Parents To Reveal Names Of Terrorists (The Star Kenya)
  • Kenya Vows Not To Withdraw Troops From Somalia (China.org)
  • Kenya: Ensure Due Process On ‘Terrorism List’(Human Rights Watch)
  • We Are At War But Who Exactly Is The Enemy Mr President? (Standard Media)
  • Uhuru Can Take Lessons From Obama In Finding Exit Strategy From Somalia (Daily Nation)
  • Sign Art In Somaliland: Walls And Their Stories In Hargeisa (Sahan Journal)