February 9, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Inauguration  Committee Set To Be Announced Today (Jowhar)
  • Streets Of Mogadishu Bursting With Optimism Hope After Historic Election (Hiiraan Online)
  • Five Big Challenges Newly Elected President Farmajo Should Address Immediately BBC Somali Analyses (BBC Somali)
  • Mogadishu Transport Restrictions Lifted Following President Farmajo’s Election (Jowhar.com)
  • UN Mission Pledges Support As New President Will Face ‘daunting challenges’ (UN News Centre)
  • Somalia’s GDP Growth Seen Slowing To 2.5 pct In 2017 – IMF (Reuters)
  • Somalia’s New Leader Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo Vows To Rebuild Failed State (Daily Nation)

February 8, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Lawmakers Make Way To Polling Centre Total Shut Down In Mogadishu As Nation Holds Breath For New Leader (Goobjoog News)
  • Six Killed In Dawn Attack On A Hotel In Bossaso  (Goobjoog News)
  • Security Crackdown Underway Near Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • Somalia Faces Presidential Election Under Threat Of Attack (Associated Press)
  • Somali Elections: Mogadishu Traffic Ban Ahead Of Presidential Vote (BBC)
  • Somaliland: The Inflation Vs Mobile Money Banking Fiasco (Hiiraan Online)

February 7, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Presidential Candidates Meet Ahead Of Elections (Hiiraan Online)
  • Voting For Somaliland’s Last Two Upper House Seats To Be Held  In Mogadishu Today (Jowhar.com)
  • Government Announces Two Days Holiday As MPs Gather Wednesday To Elect New President (Goobjoog News)
  • AU Mission In Somalia Seeks An End To The Use Of Child Soldiers In Armed Conflict (AMISOM)
  • Invest In Modern Equipment And Training To Counter The Threat Of IEDs Says AU Special Representative To Somalia (AMISOM)
  • Fueled By Bribes Somalia’s Election Seen As Milestone Of Corruption (New York Times)

February 6, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somali Presidential Candidates To Seek Public Endorsement In TV Debate Today (Goobjoog News)
  • Business Slows In Mogadishu As Initial Road Closures Begin Ahead Of Official Lockdown (Goobjoog News)
  • We’re In Mogadishu To Witness The Political Transition Set To Happen In The Coming Days Says Puntland President (Jowhar.com)
  • CCTV Cameras Installed On Some Key Roads In Mogadishu (Jowhar.com)
  • AMISOM Uganda Military Contingent Holds Free Medical Camp In Mogadishu (AMISOM)
  • Discontent Not Religion Draws People To Al-Shabaab – Study ( The Star Kenya)

February 3, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Over 170 MPs  Meet In Mogadishu Call For Leadership Change (Hiiraan Online)
  • Speaker Jawari Hands Over $360000 To Deputy PM Arte To Aid Drought Victims (Hiiraan Online)
  • Demonstration In Support Of ICJ Decision To Consider Somali-Kenyan Border Dispute Underway In Mogadishu (Dalsan Radio )
  • Three Somali Nationals Shot And Killed In Khayelitsha (ENCA South Africa)
  • Kenya Loses Round One In Sea Row Case With Somalia (Daily Nation)
  • Somalia Offshore Basins Show Encouraging Results (Hiiraan Online)

February 2, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Lower House Vote Re-Run For South West And Jubbaland To Kick Off Today (Goobjoog News)
  • Candidates Addressing Parliament Ahead Of Polls (Shabelle News)
  • Senior Al-Shabaab Official Killed In Galmudug (Jowhar.com)
  • Somali Non-profit Rejects $500K In Federal Funding Over Trump’s “Anti-Muslim Sentiments” (Hiiraan Online)
  • UK And EU Invest EUR 16.1 Million To Support Somalia Public Resource Management (Reliefweb)
  • Somaliland Students To Trump: You’re Destroying Our Dreams (CNN)

February 1, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Outspoken 4.5 Critic Fadumo Dayib Axed From Integrity Committee Barely 72 Hours After Appointment (Goobjoog News)
  • Presidential Candidates To Address Somali Parliament On 2nd 3rd and 5th February( Goobjoog News)
  • Two Killed Several Injured In Al Shabaab Attack Near Hudur Town (Garowe Online)
  • Security Forces Conduct Massive Operations In The Country’s South West (Garowe)
  • Kenyans Among Shabaab Fighters Who Attacked KDF (The Star Kenya)
  • Man 20 Pleads Guilty For Attempting To Sneak Into Somalia (Daily Nation)
  • Building Peace Through Border Control In Puntland Somalia (Transconflict)

January 31, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Presidential Candidates Lodge A Complaint Against One Of The Electoral Committee Members (Horseed Media)
  • Puntland President Launches Road Project Between Qardho Bayla (Garowe Online)
  • Farmajo Urges Regional State Presidents To Remain Neutral In The Election (Jowhar.com)
  • Drought Response Committee Receives $91835 From Arab League (Jowhar.com)
  • AMISOM Police Launches Third Phase Of Police Recruitment Training In Jubaland (AMISOM)
  • Somalia’s Law Courts Receive Praise For Prescribing Tough Penalties For Gender Based Violence As Youth Engage In The Preventative Measures (AMISOM)
  • To Get Story Somali Journalists Risk Bullets and Bombs (VOA)

January 30, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • President Hassan Jets Out Of The Country To Addis Ababa (Jowhar.com)
  • Restaurant Explosion Injures 7 People In Middle Shabelle (Goobjoog News)
  • President Hassan Invites Over 100 MPs To Dinner A Week Ahead Of The Presidential Election  (Jowhar.com)
  • Suspects On Police Radar For Financing Al-Shabaab Terrorists (Standard Media)
  • My Family Waited 13 Years to Resettle In The United States. Then Trump Slammed the Door In Our Faces (Foreign Policy)

January 26, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Presidential Candidates’ Registration Kicks Off In Mogadishu Today (jowhar.com)
  • Seven Somali Journalists Wounded in Mogadishu Suicide Attack (dhacdo.com)
  • Prominent Somali Elder Injured In Bosaso Attack (Shabelle News)
  • Somaliland Sets A New Date For Its Presidential Elections (VOA Somali)
  • How Trump’s Immigration Plans Could Affect Somali-Americans (MPR)
  • Somali Rape Law Gets First Test (VOA)
  • 1000 Somali Shillings: How Mosques Hold Somalia Together (The Seattle Globalist)