May 20, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • No Delay Of Elections Somali President Confirms To UN Security Council (Radio Dalsan)
  • Parliament Cannot Amend The 2016 Election Agreement Says Puntland (Garowe Online)
  • Traditional Elders Call For An End To Beledeweyn Fighting (Goobjoog News)
  • UN Security Council Concludes Visit To Somalia With Call For Elections (AMISOM)
  • Qatar Red Crescent Society To Launch Somalia Projects (The Peninsula)
  • President Uhuru Meeting United Nations Security Council (The Citizen TV)
  • Will Kenya Really Close Dadaab? (IRIN)

May 19, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Select Committee To Present Elections Report To Parliament As UN Security Council Lands Mogadishu(Goobjoog News)
  • Deal Reached In Dispute Over Parliamentary Seats (Hiiraan Online)
  • Rape Must Be Tried Under Judicial System Not Clan Mechanism – Deputy Prime Minister (Goobjoog News)
  • Somali MP Calls For An End To Beledweyne Tribal Violence (Shabelle News)
  • Kenya’s Foreign Interior Ministers Asked To Explain Repatriation Of Refugees (Bernama)
  • QRCS Islamic Dawa Organisation To Launch Major Development Projects In Somalia (Bernama)
  • Learning To Love My Sister Bosaso (MinnPost)

May 18, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somali Parliament Postpones Election Debate In Dispute Over New MPs (Hiiraan Online)
  • Somaliland Marks 25 Years Of Quest For Independence (Goobjoog News)
  • Former BBC Correspondent Elected NUSOJ Secretary General (Radio Dalsan)
  • Clashes Flare Up In Baladweyne Just After A 24 Hour Lull (Goobjoog News)
  • EU Appoints New Operation Commander For EU NAVFOR Somalia (Council of the European Union)
  • Parliament Summons CS Amina MohammedJoseph Nkaissery Over Dadaab Closure (Standard Digital)
  • Somali Criminal Scores Third Human Rights Victory Over Theresa May (Express.co.uk)
  • Somaliland: Making A Success Of ‘Independence’’ (BBC)

May 17, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Electoral Talks Collapse As Somali Leaders Fail To Convince Defiant House Committee (Goobjoog News)
  • Somali President Warns Socioeconomic Woes Over Khat Imports (Hiiraan Online)
  • Banaadir Will Get Equal Seats In Upper House As Other States Parliamentary Committee (Goobjoog News)
  • Somali Parliament Speaker To Meet With International Delegation (Shabelle News)
  • Somali – American Doctor Joins Race For Villa Somalia (Radio Dalsan)
  • Former Somali Defense Minister Dies In US (Hiiraan Online)
  • Helsinki University Students To Major In Somali Language (Sputnik News)
  • Key Witness Cross Examined In Minnesota Islamic State Case (Voice of America)
  • Somali Refugees Deserve Better Than Being Sent Back To Danger (The Citizen)

May 16, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • SNA Retakes Town From Al-Shabaab Following Commando Raid (Shabelle News)
  • Allied Forces Foil Al-Shabaab Attack In Halgan Hiiraan Region (Goobjoog News)
  • New Cycling Race Brings Joy To Somali Town (Hiiraan Online)
  • Shock As Gunman Opens Fire At Wedding Party Near Jilib (Shabelle News)
  • Somali President Extends Amnesty To Al-Shabaab Fighters (Xinhua)
  • Apologise To Issack Hassan For ‘Return To Somalia’ Calls NE Leaders Ask Opposition (The Star)
  • State Leaders Spoil For  A Fight With Parliament Over 2016 Electoral Proposals (Goobjoog News)

May 13, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • AU Extends Peacekeeping Mission In Somalia By A Year (African Union/Africa News)
  • Puntland Raises Red Flag Over Changes To The Electoral Model (Goobjoog News)
  • Djibouti Tycoon Linked To Somaliland-DP World Deal (Garowe Online)
  • African Union Troops Kill Nine Al-Shabaab Militants In Somalia (Bloomberg)
  • Mother And Baby Medevaced From Nauru (RNZ)
  • Somalia And Somaliland Restart Dialogue (IRIN)

May 12, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somalia Refutes Claims Of Child Abuse (Xinhua)
  • Allied Forces Take Two Villages In Afgoye Lower Shabelle As Clash With Al-Shabaab Rages (Goobjoog News)
  • Riots Break Out in Beled-Weyn Over Puntland Minted Fake Somali Currency (Mareeg Media)
  • Somalia Federal MP Calls For Fair And Inclusive Elections In The Country (Goobjoog News)
  • State To Spend Sh1b Repatriating Somali Refugees: Interior CS Nkaissery (Standard Digital)
  • Italy Arrests Somalis Accused Of Taking Migrants Hostage (Times Live)
  • Despite Challenges Mogadishu’s New Music Artwork Provide Cultural Soundtrack To City’s Rebirth(Hiiraan Online)

May 11, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • US Somali Forces Target Al-Shabaab in Joint Helicopter Raid (Voice of America)
  • MOCC Ends Its Meeting To View Situation In Somalia (Shabelle News)
  • Despite Warnings Somalia Set To Send Domestic Workers To Saudi Arabia (Hiiraan Online)
  • Al-Shabaab Suffers Casualty In Commando Raid (Shabelle News)
  • US Faults Kenya’s Plan To Repatriate Refugees (Daily Nation)
  • Finland Contributes EUR 4 Million Towards New Deal Implementation In Somalia (World Bank/Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  • These Three Somali American Mothers Insist Their Sons Didn’t Conspire To Help ISIS (PRI)
  • The Migrants Taking On A Warzone (IRIN)

May 10, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somali Commandos And Foreign Forces Raid Al-Shabaab Base (Shabelle News)
  • Al-Shabaab Became Weak Says Somali President (Goobjoog News)
  • Al-Shabaab Became Weak Says Somali President (Hiiraan Online)
  • Hundreds Displaced As Floods Hit Several Villages In The Sool Region (Goobjoog News)
  • Explosives-laden Car seized in Mogadishu (Shabelle News)
  • Minnesota IS Terror Case Underway (Voice of America)
  • Qatar Condemns Attack On Traffic Police Headquarters In Somalia (Bernama.com)
  • Refugees And Migrants: A Crisis Of Solidarity (Huffington Post)

May 9, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Al-Shabaab Car Bomb Attack Kills At Least Two Somali Police (Reuters)
  • PM Forms Fact Finding Committee Over Claims Of NISA Using Children As Spies (Goobjoog News)
  • 2nd Annual Mogadishu International Book Fair To Be Held On August (Radio Dalsan)
  • Floods Force Hundreds To Flee Homes In Beledweyne (Goobjoog News)
  • MH370 Search: Flight Recorder Found In Somalia Not From Missing Plane (The Guardian)
  • AMISOM Holds Civilian-Military Coordination Workshop For Hiiraan Region (AMISOM)
  • A Brush With Somalia’s People Smugglers (BBC)