Key Headlines

• Luq administration prepares resettlement centers for returning Somali refugees (Radio Goobjoog)
• Somali pirate kingpin allowed wife in prison (Radio Dalsan)
• Number of roadblocks on Mogadishu-Baidoa Highway double (Radio Danan)
• Three fishermen rescued after fishing boat overturned in Bandar Beyla (Radio Goobjoog)
• KDF kills five Shabaab raiders in Lamu ambush – Updated (The Star)
• Somali forces clash with Al-Shabaab in Gedo region (Sabahi Online)
• 3 ISIS recruits from Edmonton believed killed (CBC)

Key Headlines

• Puntland forces seize vehicle shipping illegal drugs in Garowe (Radio Goobjoog)
• Balambale administration vows to execute convicted murderers (Radio Danan)
• Somali parliament due to debate on general audit bill (Radio Goobjoog/Radio Muqdisho)
• Speaker of parliament announces new cabinet to face parliament on Saturday (Radio Jowhar/Somaliaupdate.com)
• Five killed in after heavy clashes between government forces and Al-Shabaab in Trako locality (Radio Goobjoog)
• Somalia fights government impersonators on social media (Sabahi Online)
• Over 100 Somali lawmakers plan to block cabinet approval (Xinhua News/Global Post)
• Rwanda’s  Government pledges support for Somalia (CNBC)
• Somali and Libyan Fighters Killed in Sinjar (Bas News)

Key Headlines

• Newly appointed minister for agriculture denies rumors that he resigned (Radio Goobjoog/Mareeg Media)
• 600 university students graduate in Mogadishu (Al Shahid/Radio Bar-Kulan)
• Puntland and Ethiopia lay foundation for a new customs centre on the border (Radio Goobjoog)
• Mogadishu and Garowe residents welcome new government (Radio Bar-Kulan)
• Former Somali lawmaker: We are astonished by the prime minister’s approach to appointing the cabinet(Radio Goobjoog)
• Somalis respond to Paris attacks denounce violence (Sabahi Online)
• Somalia gradually but surely is coming out of chaos instability (Walta Info)
• ION announces 2D regional seismic survey offshore Puntland (World Oil News Agency)
• Minnesota Somali Leaders Attending Terrorism Summit (CBC)

Key Headlines

• Somali PM names new cabinet (Hiiraan Online)
• Increase in the prices of food in Bakol markets worsens the dire situation in the region (Radio Goobjoog)
• Somali Diaspora conference opens in Kigali (Radio Goobjoog)
• Al Shabaab claims credit for Bossaso grenade attack (Garowe Online)
• Kenya Djibouti foreign ministers praise Mogadishu security (Somali Current)
• Juba administration forces arrests suspects after landmine attack (Alshahid)
• 100 Somali MPs warn President against having his close aides in the cabinet (Dalsan Radio)
• Mourning in Somalia as former Ocean Stars player dies (Mareeg Media)
• Somalia hosts IGAD meeting after 30 years (Daily Nation)
• Amina visits KDF soldiers in Somalia (The Star)
• IGAD champions integration of Somali forces (African Press Agency/Star Africa)
• Calgary’s Somali community gathers to discuss troubling increase in violence (CTV)

Key Headlines

• El-Garas administration denies the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from parts of Galgaduud region (Radio Goobjoog)
• Somaliland: Defense Minister rejects Puntland president’s statement on Al-Shabaab entry into Somaliland (Somaliland Sun)
• Somali group wants $4.35 million in state money to fight international terrorist recruitment (Radio Goobjoog)
• Al-Shabaab burns food aid vehicles in Bay region (Sabahi Online)
• Kiyonga urges Somali soldiers compensation (The Observer)
• Somalia’s Shabaab praises ‘heroic’ Charlie Hebdo massacre (Deccan Chronicle/African/APF)
• Canadian appears in terror group’s propaganda video two years after being killed in Somalia (National Post)
• When football was outlawed (BBC Sports Hour)

Key Headlines

• Vehicles ferrying food aid were set ablaze (Radio Danan)
• Ethiopian troops withdrew from parts of Galgadud region (Radio Goobjoog)
• New Turkish consul General Ramis Sen visits Somali community in Minnesota (Global Somali Diaspora/Hiiraan Online)
• Somali forces close parts of Maka Al-Mukarama road (Radio Goobjoog)
• Pests attack farms in Bay and Bakool (Radio Danan)
• Displaced farmers trained to resume production (Radio Ergo)
• AU Commissioner of Peace and Security visits Somalia (AMISOM)
• Al-Shabaab executes 4 in Gedo accused of spying (Sabahi Online)
• Roundup: Somalia peace process needs paradigm shift to address realities: experts (Xinhua News)
• AU calls for more humanitarian aid to Somalia (Press TV)

Key Headlines

• Hundreds of families flee their homes in Mudug due to dire shortages of food and water (Radio Goobjoog)
• Mobile library on the road in Garowe (Radio Ergo)
• Political alliances emerge (Dalsan Radio)
• U.S Senator Al Franken appoints his first Somali staffer (Somali Current)
• Britain prepares to send security advisors (Geeska Afrika)
• Somalia’s Shabaab militants ‘execute informers’ (Capital FM)
• Somalia forms counter-terrorism police unit (Sabahi Online)
• Suspected Islamist car bombing badly injures Somali lecturer (Reuters)
• Average Mohamed counters terror message with cartoon videos (Washington Post)

7 Shabaab, 2 Somali soldiers killed in Galgala clashes 05 Jan – Source: World Bulletin – 218 Words At least seven Al-Shabaab fighters and two government soldiers were killed on Mondayduring an army offensive against the group’s main base in Somalia’s Galgala Mountains region. “Puntland forces targeted Diine Digle, where Al-Shabab has a military base,” […]

Two more journalists arrested in Mogadishu, NUSOJ condemns the arbitrary arrests against journalists 05 Jan – Source: Somali Update – 269 Words The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has condemned the arbitrary arrest of two broadcast journalists in Mogadishu on Sunday January 4, 2015 by the Somali security forces, the latest in a crackdown […]

At least 7 killed in al Shabaab attack at Somali military base 02 Jan – Source: Reuters – 183 Words Somalia’s al Shabaab militants attacked a military base in the outskirts of the town of Baidoa on Friday morning, killing at least 7 Somali soldiers, a Somali military official said. The attack came two days […]