January 25, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Car Bomb Attack Targets Mogadishu Hotel (Aljazeera)
  • MSF Returns To Somalia After 3 Years (Kismaayo News)
  • 5 Prisoners Freed In Badhaadhe Operation (Hiiraan Online)
  • Somalia To Hold First Presidential Candidates Debate (Goobjoog News)
  • Somalia South Sudan Most Corrupt Uganda Improves In International Rankings (Daily Monitor)
  • Reformist Technocrat Seeks To Unseat Somalia President In Upcoming Polls (Standard Media)

January 24, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Joint House Seating To Select Presidential Election Committee Today (Goobjoog News)
  • Somaliland Is An Integral Part Of Somalia Ex Puntland President Says (Hiiraan Online)
  • Maritime Security Conference Opens In Hargeisa (The National-Somaliland)
  • Roadside Bomb Kills At Least Four Soldiers In Somalia Town: Officials (Reuters)
  • Mind-Body Wellness Program Helps Trauma Survivors In Somalia (VOA)
  • Somali Bandy Team Take The Ice At The Bandy World Championship (Hiiraan Online)

January 23, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • International Community Calls For Speedy Election Of Somali President (Xinhua)
  • Security Operations In Jowhar Net Suspects (Goobjoog News)
  • Somali Presidential Candidate Applauds New Senate Leadership (Shabelle News)
  • Elderly Woman Killed In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • Bomb At Army Base In Burhakabo Kills Five Somali Soldiers (Garowe Online)
  • Police Reservist Killed In Mandera Al-Shabaab Attack (Daily Nation)
  • Maritime Terrorism Cyber Crime Kidnappings and Ransoms are the “New Somalia” For Today’s Shipping Industry (Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide)

January 20, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Intense Security Operations In Afgooye (Goobjoog News)
  • List Of Candidates Seeking Senate Speaker Position Released (Jowhar.com)
  • Senator Farole Meets Newly Appointed EU Special Envoy (Garowe Online)
  • Somali President Appeals For Assistance As Drought Worsens (VOA)
  • Djibouti Backs Amina For AU Commission Chair Position (Daily Nation)
  • VOA Somali And BBC Somali: A ‘Cancer In Our Midst’? (Hiiraan Online)

January 19, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Puntland Arrests Top Al-Shabaab Militant In Bossaso (Jowhar.com)
  • Galmudug Members Of The Lower And Upper Houses Reach Adaado (Radio Dalsan)
  • German Delegation Visits Kismayo (Jowhar.com)
  • Senior AU Official Begins Visit In Burundi (Xinhua)
  • Paving The Road To A More Secure Somalia (Africa Command)
  • Closing The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Is A Complicated Process (MPR)
  • Surviving Gender-based Violence In Somalia’s Displacement Camps (Xinhua)

18 January 2017 – Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somalia To Wrap Up Lower House Elections In The Capital (Garowe Online)
  • US Extends Temporary Protected Status For Somalis (Hiiraan Online)
  • MPs Allegedly Preparing Motion Against Southwest President Sharif Hassan (Jowhar.com)
  • Elder Warns Of Conflict Escalation In Galmudug (Shabelle News)
  • Finland Continues Current Policy For Asylum Seekers (Xinhua)
  • Somalia: New Report Details Troubling Violations Against Children (Reliefweb)
  • As Elections Approach In Somalia Bishop Sees Signs Of Hope (Catholic News Service)

January 17, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • NISA Clashes With Police Near Parliament Compound In Adado 7 Injured (Garowe Online)
  • Registration Of Candidates Contesting For Upper House Speaker Post Set To Begin Today
  • NISA Seizes Counterfeit Dollars And Arrests Kingpins (Goobjoog News)
  • Hiiraan Administration To Intervene Clan Clashes In The Region (Goobjoog News)
  • Deputy SRSG De Clercq Assesses Humanitarian Crisis In Somalia’s South West State (UNSOM)
  • What We’ve Learnt About Donald Trump’s Africa Policy (Newsweek)

January 16, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Upper House elections for Somaliland community to resume in Mogadishu (Garowe Online)
  • Upper House Sessions To Start Today In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • HirShabelle MP Calls For End To Clan Fighting In Hiiraan (Shabelle News)
  • AMISOM Force Commander Somali Dep. CDF Visit Adaado In The Wake Of Political Disturbances In Galmudug (AMISOM)
  • Refugees Risking Lives To Reach Bright Lights Of Johannesburg (The Guardian)

January 13, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • National Leadership Forum Speaks On The Galmudug Political Situation (Jowhar.com)
  • Tarsan Hails Election For The Parliament Leadership (Shabelle News)
  • 2 Injured In Grenade Attack In Jowhar (Goobjoog News)
  • Somalia Willing To Expand Ties With Pakistan In Multiple Areas (Radio Pakistan)
  • Minneapolis Council Member Abdi Warsame Pledges To Build New Somali Mall (Star Tribune)
  • The Great Wall Of Kenya: ‘A weird Solution To A Much Bigger Problem’ (Daily Maverick)

January 12, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Election Of Lower House Deputy Speakers Kicks Off In Mogadishu (Garowe Online)
  • Six Killed In Inter-clan Fighting In Abudwaq Town (Goobjoog News)
  • Bari Security Forces Arrest Alleged Killer In Bosaso (Puntlandi.com)
  • US Launches ‘Self-defense Strike’ During Raid Against Al-Shabaab (Long War Journal)
  • Chinese Energy Firm Begins Drilling In Ethiopian Somali Region (Ezega.com)
  • The Dual Citizenship Debate In Somalia (Wardheer News)