February 23, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somalia’s News President Appoints Prime Minister  (Associated Press)
  • Somali President Makes His First Trip (Puntlandi)
  • PM Designate Pledges An Inclusive And Responsive Government In First Address (Goobjoog News)
  • The New Government Will Prioritise The Galkayo Conflict President Says (Dhacdo.com)
  • resident Farmajo Says Somalia Needs 20 Years To Fix Its Problems (Goobjoog News)
  • Somali President Says No Quick Fix For Nation’s Woes (Daily Nation)
  • Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo Gives Horn Of Africa Fresh Hope (VOA)

February 22, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Horn Of Africa Leaders Join Somalia At President Farmaajo’s Inauguration (Africa News)
  • Traffic Banned In Mogadishu Ahead Of President Farmaajo’s Inauguration (Goobjoog News)
  • Over 60 MPs File A No Confidence Motion Against HirShabelle Leader (Shabelle News)
  • Food Crisis Could Become Worse With Poor Rainy Season In Somalia UN Agency Warns (Xinhua)
  • Military Officers Urged To Work Closely With Residents To Promote Peace And Security (AMISOM)
  • Somalia Is A Leader In Mobile Money But Still Wants To Print Its First Cash Notes In 25 Years
  • (Quartz Africa)

February 21, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • UN Security Council Reaffirms Its Commitment To Support Somalia’s Peace Process (Goobjoog News)
  • Dozen Foreign Trawlers Arrive Bosaso Port Amid Concerns Of Marine Exploitation (Garowe Online)
  • Unconvicted Prisoners Should Be Released Speaker Jawari Says (Dhacdo.com)f
  • Security Beefed Up Ahead Of President Farmaajo’s Inauguration (Radio Muqdisho)
  • 1.4 Million Children At ‘Imminent Risk Of Death’ As famine Looms In East Africa Warns Unicef (International Business Times)
  • Can The New Somalia President Really Deliver? (Hiiraan Online)

February 20, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somali Government To Pay Medical Bills For Victims Of Sunday’s Deadly Car Bomb (Goobjoog News)
  • Universal TV Owner Arrested In Somaliland (Jowhar.com)
  • Plans To Liberate The District Of Sakow Finalised (Dhacdo.com)
  • A Military Officer Killed In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • IMF To Help Somalia Print First Banknotes In A Quarter Century (Bloomberg)
  • AMISOM To Help Construct Military Training Facility For Somali National Army (AMISOM)
  • How An American Bureaucrat Became The President Of Somalia  (Politico.com)

February 17, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • AMISOM Will Stay In Somalia Till SNA Is Reformed Says President Farmaajo (Goobjoog News)
  • Two Killed In Violent Robbery In Dharkenley District (Goobjoog News)
  • Somaliland Warns Politicians And Journalists From Travelling To Somalia (Radio Dalsan)
  • Somali Forces Secure Villa Somalia As President Spends His First Night In The Palace (Dhacdo.com)
  • Al-Shabaab Claims Attack As New Somali Leader Takes Office (The East African)
  • Somalia’s Peaceful Presidential Handover Bolsters Hope (United States Institute for Peace Blog)

February 16, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Former President Mohamud To Exit Villa Somalia Today As Farmaajo Takes Over (Goobjoog News)
  • Senator Farole Urges To Support New President Warns Against Political Interference (Garowe Online)
  • Additional Money Imposed On Passengers At Adan Adde Airport (Allbenadir.com)
  • British Envoy Urges Action To Prevent Somalia Famine Deaths (ABC News)
  • Somalia ‘Plans To File Legal Complaint Against UAE’ Over Somaliland Base (Press TV)
  • The Time Is Now to Prevent A New Famine In Somalia (Chatham House)

February 15, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Daallo Plane Carrying Somali MPs And Ministers Makes Emergency Landing In Nairobi (Radio Dalsan)
  • All Crew Members Rescued After Commercial Boat Sinks Off Coast Of Somalia (Goobjoog News)
  • Calm Returns To Parts Of Mudug Region After Battle (Shabelle News)
  • Auditor General Says Approval Of 2017 Budget By Cabinet Is Illegal (Jowhar.com)
  • Somaliland Asks US for Exemption To Trump’s Travel Ban (Associated Press)
  • Somalia Heralds New Dawn After Election (Daily Nation)

February 14, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somalia To Inaugurate President Farmaajo On 22nd February (Goobjoog News)
  • Senior Al-Shabaab Commanders Surrender In Baidoa (Garowe Online)
  • Electoral College Delegate Killed In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • Galmudug And SNA Forces Launch An Operation Toward Harardhere (Dhacdo.com)
  • New Burundi Battle Group Arrives In Somalia (AMISOM)
  • Iran Gets 8 Sailors Freed From Somali Pirates: MP (Press TV)
  • Lessons Derived From Somalia Polls (Standard Digital)

February 13, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • President Farmaajo Freezes Government’s Bank Accounts Ahead Of The Inauguration (Garowe Online)
  • Grenade Attack At Checkpoint Kills One In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • Jubbaland President Holds Talks With UN Envoy (dhacdo.com)
  • Newly Elected MP Dies In Mogadishu Hospital  (Goobjoog News)
  • Why Mogadishu Attracts Foreign Workers (BBC News Day)
  • Famine Grips Somalia After Two-year Drought (Toronto Star)
  • A New Test For Somalia Unity (Hiiraan Online)

February 10, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Unprecedented Display Of Public Support For President Farmajo (Hiiraan Online)
  • President Farmajo Speaks To VOA Somali (VOA Somali)
  • Somali Shilling Gains Against The Dollar In Mogadishu After The Election of President Farmajo (BBC Somali)
  • President Farmajo Hosts Dinner For His Competitors In The Presidential Election (Jowhar.com)
  • ISWA President Sharif Hassan Urges The Public And International Partners To Work With The New President (Hiiraan Online)
  • UN Chief Urges Somalia’s New President To Form Inclusive Government (Belfast Telegraph)
  • New President Of Somalia Inspires Optimism Among Somali Community In Minnesota (Star Tribune)
  • The Big Cheese: Why President Farmaajo Holds So Much Hope For Somalia (African Arguments)