July 27, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Al-Shabaab Burn Houses Abduct And Steal Livestock In Somalia Attacks (The Star)
  • President Farmaajo Appoints Committee To Investigate Wednesday’s Deadly Shootout Between Security Forces (Jowhar.com)
  • Intel Chief Sanbaloolshe Reads Riot Act To Government Officials Over Criticism (Goobjoog News)
  • Independent Electoral Commission Paves Way For 2021 Elections (Somali Update)
  • Constitutional Affairs Minister Under Fire Over Comments Against Parliamentary Decision (Horn Observer)
  • KMTC To Admit First Batch Of 50 Somali Students In September (The Star)
  • Telecom Heroics In Somalia (Dyn)

July 26, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Joint US-Somali Raid Nabs Suspected US Resident (CNN)
  • Finance Minister Discusses Debt Relief Asks New Assistance With World Bank Officials (RBC)
  • New French Ambassador Presents His Credentials To Somalia President (Horn Observer)
  • HirShabelle Accuses Puntland Of Run-away Inflation As Traders Display Sacks Of Fake Notes (Goobjoog News)
  • UN Says Food Security In Somalia Unlikely To Improve Before 2018 (Xinhua)
  • Kenya Steps Up The War Against Al-Shabaab Before Its Elections (The Daily Beast)

July 25, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • AMISOM And Somali Government Hold Joint Meeting On Transitioning Security To Somali Security Forces (AMISOM)
  • Somaliland Appoints Former Diplomat Edna Aden Special Envoy To Talks With Somalia (Goobjoog News)
  • Al-Shabaab Commander Of Operations In Galkayo Arrested (Jowhar.com)
  • House Opens Up Budget Process As It Holds First Public Outreach Session (Goobjoog News)
  • Al-Shabaab Frees 7 Aid Workers In Somalia (Anadolu Agency)
  • President Farmaajo’s Delicate Balancing Act (Hiiraan Online)

July 24, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somali Forces Open Access To Roads of Besieged Town Allowing Trade Flow for 5 Years (Somali Update)
  • Government Dismisses Claims Prime Minister Met EU Officials Over Frustration On Fighting Graft (Goobjoog News)
  • Interior Minister Farah Threatens To Resign If Prime Minister Khayre Reinstates Sacked Permanent Secretary (Radio Dalsan)
  • Prime Minister Khayre Visits Youth Released From Ethiopian Jails Pledges Government Support (Goobjoog News)
  • Security Forces Foil Landmine Attacks Along Mogadishu Afgoye Highway (Somali Update)
  • Soldiers Killed In Somalia Blast (Aljazeera)
  • Why Raids Are A Cause For Worry As Al-Shabaab Changes Face (Standard Digital)

July 21, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • About 3000 Students Fail This Year’s Secondary Exams (Jowhar.com)
  • Somali Forces Seize A Car Loaded With Explosives At A Security Checkpoint Outside Mogadishu (Horn Observer)
  • President Farmaajo Urges End Of Herale Clashes (Jowhar.com)
  • Somali Presidential Secretary Is Suspended Over Power Struggle – Reports (Horn Observer)
  • Terror Suspect Arrested After Turning Himself In (Daily Nation)
  • No Al-Shabaab Is Not Deadlier Than Boko Haram. Here Are Better Numbers. (Washington Post)

July 20, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Over 700,000 Displaced By Drought Since November In Somalia – UN (Goobjoog News)
  • Puntland Auditor General Freezes Bank Accounts Of Ousted Cabinet (RBC Radio)
  • President Farmaajo’s Planned Visit To Puntland Postponed (Garowe Online)
  • Kenyan Soldiers Kill Al-Shabaab Chief In Southern Somalia (Daily Nation)
  • KS Relief Repatriates 316 Stranded Somalis (Asharq-Al-Awsat)
  • The Somali Pirates Are Back – SPOILER ALERT: They Never Really Left (Irinnews)

July 19, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Civil Society Groups In Puntland Welcome Vote Against Cabinet (Goobjoog News)
  • Some Electoral Delegates Join The Army As Recruits (Dhacdo.com)
  • President Of Hirshabelle To Create Job Opportunities For Youth In Hiiraan Region (Goobjoog News)
  • 316 Somalis Arrive Home From Yemen In Past Four Days (Relief Web)
  • HirShabelle State Assembly Lawmakers Laud Training On Conflict Resolution And Reconciliation (AMISOM)
  • The Troubling US Post-prison Experiment To ‘Rehabilitate’ An ISIS Supporter (Fox News)

July 18, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Puntland Parliament Sends Home Cabinet In Majority No Confidence Vote (Goobjoog News)
  • Government of Somalia  Issues New Guidelines Following Loss of Millions in Internet Outage (Radio Dalsan)
  • Jubbaland Police Seizes Car With Explosives Heading To Kenya (Shabelle News)
  • Drought Triggers Mass Displacements In Somalia (CAJ Africa)
  • A Look Inside The Unfolding Nightmare In Somalia (Washington Post)

July 17, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Strikes Al-Shabaab Base Kills 40 Militants (Garowe Online)
  • Albayrak Company To Renovate Mogadishu Seaport (Goobjoog News)
  • First Batch Of Applicants For Senate Departmental Heads Face Interview Panel (Goobjoog News)
  • ISIS Militants In Puntland Accused Of Looting Livestock (Horn Observe) 
  • More Than 2000 Ugandan Troops Leave For Peacekeeping Duty In Somalia (New Vision)
  • The Night That Sealed Our Brotherhood For Eternity (Radio Dalsan)

July 14, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • US Somalia Forces Raid Al-Shabab Kill Several: Official (Associated Press)
  • Somali Parliament Sends Letter On Gulf Crisis To President Farmajo (Garowe Online)
  • Somali Government To Start Repairing The  Fibre Optic Cable (Jowhar.com)
  • Council Of Minister Approves Slight Changes In Somali Media Law (Horn Observer)
  • Somalia Detains Ship That Caused Internet Outage Demands Compensation (Africa News)
  • The Empowered Women of Little Mogadishu (Pacific Standard)