January 15, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Al -Shabaab Militants Attack African Union Base In Somalia (Reuters And Agencies)
Somaliland Troops Seize Khaatumo Administration’s Headquarters (Hiiraan Online)
German Tourists Arrive In Qardho Town (Wacaal Media)
Four Al-Shabaab Militants Killed In Hiiraan (Radio Muqdisho)
Somali Refugees Touch Down In Winnipeg (News Talk 770)
This Man Was Jailed for Five Years Because Canada Couldn’t Deport Him (Vice News)
What Type of Leader will Benefit Somalia? (Shanta Post)

Official: Several Militants Killed In Firefight Near Elbur Airport (Shabelle News)
National Consultative Forum Meeting Convenes In Kismayu (Radio Muqdisho)
Somalia Seeks Turkey’s Assistance In Rebuilding Police Force (Hiiraan Online)
Somalia Welcomes Appointment Of New US Envoy To Somalia (Wacaal Media)
Six Al-Shabaab Fighters Arrested In Security Swoop In S. Somalia (Xinhua)
Eight Al-Shabaab Suspects Arrested In Ongoing Security Operation In Mandera County (Daily Nation)
Witness Somalia’s Resilience After Decades Of War (Time)
Hadraawi: Celebrating The Great Somali Poet (The Star Kenya)

Somalia’s New Controversial Media Law Takes Effect (Hiiraan Online)
Somali President Calls For Speed Up Of Efforts to Form Hiiraan And Middle Shabelle Regions State(Shabelle News)
Former Prime Minister Of Somalia Expresses Concern Over Return To 4.5 Formula (Wacaal Media)
Man Arrested For Cannibalism In Somaliland (Hiiraan Online)
Seven Refugees Fleeing Somalia ‘Thrown Overboard’ Off Coast Of Italy (The Independent)
Calgary Imam Abdi Hersy Stripped Of Refugee Status Awaits Appeal Decision ( CBC News)
Somalia’s 13-Year-Old Inventor Finds Fame (BBC)

Somaliland Executes Four Soldiers Convicted Of Murders (Hiiraan Online)
Hiiraan Elders Boycott Jowhar Conference Over ‘Broken’ Promises (Hiiraan Online)
Somali Legendary Poet Passes Away Aged 80 (Goobjoog News)
Media Development Strategy Meeting Opened In Mogadishu (Shabelle News)
Maryland Man Indicted For Support Of Al Shabaab (The Washington Times)
David Bowie Death: Supermodel Wife Iman Reveals Her Favourite Records Were Suffragette City and Heroes (International Business Times)
Students Stay Away As Classes Resume At Kenya’s Garissa University (The Christian Science Monitor)
Once A Refugee In Kenya And Now A Policewoman In The US: The Story Of Zahra (Somali Current)

UK Says ISIL Is Threat To Somalia (Somali Current)
Hiiraan Elders Say They Will Participate At Jowhar Conference (Shabelle News)
Somalia’s Intel Agency Celebrates 46th Anniversary (Hiiraan Online)
Somali President Finally Explains Why They Cut Diplomatic Ties With Iran (Somali Current)
Eastleigh Assistant Chief Arrested For Posing As Policeman Extortion (The Star Kenya)
Duale Says Sossion’s Call To Non-local Teachers To Leave NE Over Attacks Was Betrayal (Daily Nation)
Young Innovator From Somalia’s Puntland Builds Vehicles Of Hope (Global Voices)
My Positive Experience In Mogadishu (Geeska Africa)

The Official Opening Of Bander Qasim International Airport Gets Underway In Bosaso (Horseed Media)
ISWA Forces Battle Al-Shabaab In Gof-gaduud Town Near Baidoa (Wacaal Media)
Voter Registration And Elections Will Not Take Place In The Eastern Regions Says Ali Khalif (Somaliland Informer)
Somali Restaurant Owner To Attend President’s State Of The Union Address Next Week (Star Tribune)
Somalia Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Iran Citing Threat To Security (Bloomberg News)
Ethnic Somalis Are Dying In Kenya And Some Say The Government Is To Blame (Washington Post)
Kenya Has Become A Perilous Place To Be A Teacher With The Threat Of Al-Shabaab Leaving Young People In Crisis (The Independant)

Mortar Shells Attack Near Somali Presidential Palace (Shabelle News)
Somalia Denies Reports Of Iranian Diplomats’ Possible Expulsion (Hiiraan Online)
Ahmed Madobe Of Jubbaland in Adaado Town For The First Time (Radio Dalsan)
Police Officers Should Be Trained In Somalia Says Former PM (Shabelle News)
WFP Denies Allegations It Undermines Somalia’s Agriculture Industry (Hiiraan Online)
New Contingent Of Nigerian Police Arrive In Somalia (AMISOM)
Death Of Teen In Fall From Capitol Hill Building Ruled An Accident (The Seattle Times)
Hadraawi The Great African Poet We Should Know (The Star)
‘You Are An American — Find Your Dream’ (Post Bulletin)

Somali Government Accuses WFP Of Undermining Country’s Agriculture Industry (Hiiraan Online)
Somali National Army Chief Vows To Defeat Al-Shabaab Within 2016 (Goobjoog News)
UAE To Commission Development Projects In Kismayo Jubbaland (Wacaal Media)
Puntland President Opens New Presidential Palace In Qardo Karkaar (Villa Puntland)
Police Nab Mombasa Terror Suspect Recover Guns (Daily Nation)
Moving Drones From Africa A ‘New Jihadi John’ And Cutting Ties With Iran (Washington Post)
Ghanaian Footballer Playing In War-torn Somalia Top-flight League (Ghana Soccer Net)
The Conditions Of Gabar Xishood Leh An Idealized Somali Womanhood (The Maandeeq)

SNA and AU Troops In Jubaland To Lead New Offensive Against Al-Shabaab (Goobjoog News)
International Airport To Be Inaugurated In Puntland (Villa Puntland)
Training Workshop For Journalists In Garowe (Goobjoog News)
A Top Al-Shabaab Leader Surrenders In Kenya (Somali Current)
Outpouring Tribute For Respected Somali Clan Leader’s Death (Hiiraan Online)
Twin Cities Somali Community Calling On Young Muslims To Reject Terror Recruitment (KMSP TV)
Eagan Islamic State Suspect’s Family Against Radicalization Attorney Says (Pioneer Press)
What The US Suspension Of Drone Operations In Ethiopia Mean For The Somalis (Somali Current)
Review Dadaab Refugee Camp Detailed In ‘City of Thorns’ Is A World Ripped From The World (LA Times)

Three Killed In Al-Shabaab Attack On Police Station In Warmahan (Goobjoog News)
Barawe District’s Head Of NISA Arrested For His Role In Yesterday’s Clashes (Wacaal Media)
Somaliland Sets Voter Registration Date (Hiiraan Online)
ISWA Parliament To Elect Speaker Two Deputies (Wacaal Media)
Garissa University Reopens After Massacre That Left 147 Dead (The Star)
Probe Called Over Somali Refugee’s Return To Nauru (Radio New Zealand News)
Somalia Housing Boom As Mogadishu Emerges From Ashes Of War (Capital FM/AFP)
The Cool Runnings Of The Refugee Crisis: Somalia’s Bandy Team At Home On Ice (The Guardian)