December 27, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • We Can Hold Elections In 2020 In Somalia Emphasizes IEC Chairperson (Goobjoog News)
  • Al-Shabaab Kills Security Official In Galkayo (Garowe Online)
  • Somaliland Foreign Affairs Minister Rebukes Huthi Threats (Jowhar.com)
  • New US Airstrike In Somalia Kills 13 Al-Shabaab Members (Washington Post)
  • 1000 AMISOM Troops Leave Somalia In Gradual Pullout (Daily Nation)
  • Somali Refugee Passes Bar Exam Runs For Ohio House (The Columbus Dispatch )

December 26, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • National Speaker And His Regional Counterparts Converge In Baidoa Town Southwest State Somalia (Goobjoog News)
  • President Farmaajo Orders Youth Officers To Be Nominated For National Armed Forces Leadership (Jowhar.com)
  • Government Soldiers And Al-shabaab Fighters Engage In A Fierce Fight In Lower Shabelle (Goobjoog News)
  • Hirshabelle Parliament To Hold An Extraordinary Meeting In Jowhar (Radio Dalsan)
  • Islamic State Group Releases 1st Video Of Somalia Fighters (Associated Press)
  • A Former Refugee Is Shaking Up The $441B Remittances Industry (NBC News)

December 25, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Top Al-Shabaab Officials Surrender Themselves To South West State Administration (Radio Dalsan)
  • Speakers Of Regional Assemblies To Meet Lower House Speaker In Baidoa (Dhacdo.com)
  • Fresh Clan Battle Erupts in Somalia’s Hiiraan Region (Sahal News)
  • AMISOM Deputy Head Of Mission Pledges Continued Support For Youths In Somalia (AMISOM)
  • Somalia Once Again to Host International Soccer Matches (VOA)
  • I’ll Never Return To Somalia Says Refugee Who Returned To Kenya  (Daily Nation)

December 22, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Mogadishu Mayor Asks For Transfer Of Security Responsibility To His Administration (Hiiraan Online)
  • Galmudug First Minister Sheikh Shakir Declares Fresh Offensive Against Al-Shabaab (Dhacdo.com)
  • Hirshabelle President Travels Back To Jowhar (Jowhar.com)
  • AU Says It Needs Urgent Resources For Its Mission In Somalia (VOA)
  • UNESCO Calls For Investigation Into Death Of Journalist In Somalia (Sputnik)
  • 24 Hours In Hargeisa Somaliland(World Bank)

December 21, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somalia Releases Jailed Ex Minister And Government Critic (Reuters)
  • Inter-state Cooperation Council Releases Statement About The Arrest Of Abdirahman Abdishakur (Jowhar.com)
  • Puntland Deploys More Security Forces To Galgala (Jowhar.com)
  • Somali Refugees At Dadaab Being Forced Back Home – Amnesty International (The Star Kenya)
  • AMISOM Donates Crime Scene Investigation Equipment To South West State Police Force (AMISOM)
  • Somali Refugees Living In Kenya Ponders Return To Motherland With Mixed Feelings (Xinhua)

December 20, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Detained Former Minister Appears Before Court (Garowe Online)
  • Former PM Distances Himself From Motion Against Government (Shabelle News)
  • Police Force Marks Its 74th Anniversary (Garowe Online)
  • Somalia: Up To 30 Percent of Soldiers Unarmed (VOA)
  • Somali Refugees In Kenya Caught Between Ration Cuts And War At Home (Reuters)

December 19, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Constitutional Affairs Minister Challenges Security Minister’s Ban On Private Meetings (Jowhar.com)
  • President Farmajo Tells Army Commanders To Double Their Efforts In Fighting Al-Shabaab (Radio Dalsan)
  • Finance Ministers Arrives In Kismayo For 3rd Fiscal Federalism Meeting (Hiiraan Online)
  • Kenya Stands Its Ground In Sea Row With Somalia (Daily Nation)
  • UNHCR Repatriates 74141 Somali Refugees From Kenya (Xinhua)
  • UN Refugee Chief Finds Somalia Suffering From Instability And Drought But Sees Hope (UNHCR)

December 18, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Outspoken Critic Of Farmajo’s Government Arrested (Garowe Online)
  • Government Leaders Meet With UN High Commissioner For Refugees (Hiiraan Online)
  • We Shall Remain An Opposition Party To The Somali Government Says Wadajir Chairperson (Goobjoog News)
  • MP Shuriye Refutes Attorney General’s Accusations (Hiiraan Online)
  • Mogadishu Main Roads Closed Today (Allafrica)
  • Foreign Fleets Plundered Somalia’s Fish (Hakai Magazine)

December 15, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somalia’s Defense Ministry Calls For More US Drone Strikes (Daily Caller)
  • Mogadishu Female Police Officers Mourn Highest Death Toll In Week (Radio Dalsan)
  • Former Al-Shabaab Deputy Commander Helping Somalia Government’s Fight On Terrorism Say Officials (Somali Update)
  • Somalia Inaugurated A President Dealt With Terrorism & Reeled From Drought In 2017 (VOA)
  • Egypt Condemns Deadly Anti-police Terror Attack In Somalia (Xinhuanet)
  • US Is Cutting Some Military Aid To Somalia Amid Allegations Of Misuse (CNN.com)
  • Graft Clanism Poor Training Hurt Somalia Security Takeover From AU (The Star)

December 14, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 15 At Police Academy In Somalia’s Capital (Reuters)
  • Meeting With Federal Member States Speakers Unconstitutional Senate Tells Jawari (Goobjoog News)
  • Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Meets Jubbaland President Ahmed Madoobe In Kismayo (Radio Dalsan)
  • Galmudug And ASWJ Parliaments Set To Be Integrated (Radio Muqadishu)
  • Shabaab Head Flees Jilib In Lower Jubba As US Drops Bombs (Daily Nation)
  • Emir Meets Somalia President (Gulf Times)
  • The Challenges Facing Young Entrepreneurs In Somalia (Hiiraan Online)