August 13, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somalia Lawmakers Lodge Vote of No Confidence in President (Bloomberg)
Somali President Wants Army Scale Up Attacks On Al-Shabaab (Somali Update)
Somalia Petroleum Ministry Dismiss UN Monitoring Allegation (Somali Current)
Anxiety Grips SIMAD University As Al-Shabaab Circulates Leaflets Warning People To Stay Away From The Institution (Wacaal Media)
Al-Shabaab Official Surrenders To Jubaland Amid Setbacks (Garowe Online)
Somali Entrepreneur Zakaria Hersi Has Launched A Multimillion-dollar Internet Startup Called Efritin Nigeria (Information Nigeria/Hiiraan Online)
Netherlands Deploys First Ocean-Going Patrol Vessel Against Somali Pirates (Radio Bar-Kulan)
Colombian Ship Joins EU Counter-piracy Operation (The West Australian)
After Emerging From The Red River Somali Man Seeking Asylum Now Mired In Red Tape (Winniepeg Free Press)
AMISOM’’s New Offensive Creates More Questions Than Answers (All Africa)
A Response To Organizers Of The Somali Studies International Association Congress Helsinki(Maandeeq.com)

August 12, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somalia Marks One Year Without Recorded Polio Case( Hiiraan Online)
Mudug Regional Judge Quits Office( Goobjoog News)
Conflict In Hiran Pushes More Displaced To Beledweyne (Radio Ergo)
Key Al-Shabaab Gedo Region Point man Surrenders To Jubbaland Security(Goobjoog News)
Somali MPs Question Top AU Envoy Over AMISOM Mass killings (Somali Current)
Man Seeks Release Of Shabaab Returnee Brother (The Star Kenya)
Written Food Safety Test Is Hurdle For Somali Businesses (MPR News )
Somalia’s Lone Female Presidential Candidate Mulls Finland’s “Failed Integration Policies” (YLE News )
Written Food Safety Test Is Hurdle For Somali Businesses (MPR News )
Why It’s Difficult To Effect Political Change In Somalia (RBC Radio)

August 11, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

AMISOM Confirms Killing 98 Militants In Hiiraan Region Offensive (Wacaal Media)
President Of South-West State To Meet With Elders Of Newly Captured Diinsoor Town (Goobjoog News)
Ethiopian War Planes Hit Al-Shabaab Targets Near Diinsoor (Wacaal Media)
Police Killed A Child And Wounded Five Others In Hargeysa (Somali Update)
Severe Water Shortages In Areas Under Mudug Threatens Lives Of People
Militants Attack Prison In Central Somalia 2 Killed (Hiiraan Online)
Coach Back On Toronto Soccer Fields After Surviving Somalia Militant Attack (CBC News)
Ijara MP Ahmed Abass Wants Kenya Defense Forces Out Of His Constituency (Standard Digital)
Somali Immigrant Dies After Three Years In CBSA Custody (CTV Canada)
Young People Have Never Mattered More Than They Do Today (Wardheer News)
Spotlight On Somali Youth! (UNSOM)

August 10, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somalia’s Parliament Grills Education Minister Over Scholarship Scandal (Hiiraan Online)
Parliamentarians To Hold Debate On Communication Bill Question Minister (Somali Update)
Police Officers Repulse Al-Shabaab After Militants Raided Their Station In Baladweyne (Wacaal Media)
Former Mogadishu Mayor Commends Turkey For Development (Goobjoog News)
Eastleigh Gangs Stab “Walk Of Hope” Journalist ( Dalsan Radio)
Somali President Says Country On Road To End Militants’ Insurgency (Hiiraan Online)
UPDATE: U.K. Fraud Probe of Soma Focuses On Payments to Somali Officials (Bloomberg)
Stranded Indonesian Sailors Saved In Somalia (Jakarta Post)
Welcome Congressional Cohesion On Somalia (Star Tribune)
UAE Envoy Hosts Dinner Banquet In Honour Of Somali Deputy PM (Emirates News Agency)
These Opaque Oil Deals And ‘Friends’ Cannot Be Good For Somalia’s People (Daily Nation)

August 7, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Ministerial “Reshuffle” Worrying All (Hiiraan Online)
IGAD Holds Round Table Meeting For Jubbaland Administration And Opposition Leaders (Wacaal Media)
Aid Groups Highlight Global Acute Malnutrition In Somalia (Somali Update)
Coalition Government A Likely Scenario As Powerful Premier Endorsed In New 2016 Roadmap(Goobjoog News)
AU Calls For More Funding For Peacekeeping Mission In Somalia (China.org)
A National Workshop On Somalia’s Human Rights Record Opened In Mogadishu (Cihan.com)
Australians Urged To Develop Taste For Camel Meat (ABC.net)
AU To Kenya: Stop Politicising Issue On KDF In Somalia (Tuko.co)
Somalia’s Incredible Shrinking Election (Foreign Policy)

August 6, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Up To 100 Suspected Members Of Al-Shabaab Arrested In Mogadishu Security Operations (Wacaal Media)
Dozens Hospitalised After Drinking Contaminated Milk (Horseed Media)
An International Conference To Raise Money For Somali Refugees In Kenya To Be Held In Nairobi(Radio Mogdisho)
Mogadishu Residents Raise Complaints On The Closure Of Important Roads
Mogadishu And Nairobi Mayors Discuss Cooperation (Horseed Media)
Police Starts Conscription Of New Officers (Goobjoog News)
IOM Global Solar Lantern Initiatives Targets Displaced Families (Newshour.com)
UN Body Urges Somalia To Probe British Oil Contract (France 24/AFP )
Somalis Go Home To Fragile Security In First-Phase Repatriation (Bloomberg)
Ethiopia Bombed Somalia’s Shabaab Stronghold (Diplomat News Network)
Mission Accomplished (RBC Radio)
A Letter From Mogadishu: The Birth And Burial Of Somali Nationalism (Wardheer News)

August 5, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

UNMAS Clarifies False Reports Regarding Staff Member (UNMAS)
Mortar Rounds Rain Down On Al-Shabaab Bases (Shabelle News)
Galmudug Police Seizes Counterfeit Money (Goobjoog News)
AMISOM Seizes Vehicles And Weapons From Al-shabaab Following Offensive In Dalandoole Town (Wacaal Media)
Parliament Oversight Committee Ready To Take On The Executive (Goobjoog News)
National Consultative Workshop On Human Rights Kicks Off In Mogadishu ( Radio Bar-Kulan)
Police Officer Killed In Mogadishu (Horseed Media)
Michael Howard To Meet SFO Over Somalia Oil Deal (The Week)
Mayo Doctor Turns Research Into Somali Community Outreach (Postbulletin.com)
Somalia May Soon Ban Female Genital Mutilation. Are Laws Enough? (The Christian Science Monitor)
Child Refugee From War Torn Somalia Goes Back To Run For President (Goodnews Network)

August 4, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somali Government Forces Capture More Territories In Hiiraan Region (Radio Bar-Kulan)
Somali Elders Call On AMISOM Troops To Vacate Marka Town (Shabelle News)
OHIO TMT Wins Toronto Somali Week’s Football Tournament (Hiiraan Online)
Jubaland Parliament Declines Requests To Extend Presidential Elections Date (Wacaal Media)
Fireworks In Parliaments As MPs Debate Money Laundering Bill (Goobjoog News)
Somaliland Says Poor Harvest Sparks Emergency Food Crisis (Hiiraan Online)
U.N. Monitors Accuse British Oil Firm Of “Payoffs” To Somali Officials (Reuters)
Somalia’s New Permanent Representative To UN Office Presents Her Credentials (Diplomat News)
Sh200m For Garissa University Security (The Star Kenya)
Somalia’s Debt Is 93% Of Its GDP And 15 Other Things You Didn’t Know About Its Cash Situation (Mail & Guardian Africa)

August 3, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Deadly Assault On Army Base Kills 10 Al-Shabaab (Shabelle News)
AU Soldiers Arrested Over Civilian Killings In Marka Town (Mareeg Media)
Somali President Appoints Deputy Police Commissioner (Goobjoog News)
Britain Lauds African Union Mission In Somalia (Shabelle News)
Low Funding Has Left 1.5 Million People Without Primary Healthcare Services (Somali Update)
Somali Government To Probe Alleged AMISOM Mass Killings (Somali Current)
No New IMF Loans For Somalia Till Debts Paid (East Africa Business Week)
Somali Official Says Friendship Between Two Countries Intact (China Daily)
Leaders Urge Government To Reopen Garissa University College (Daily Nation)
Tribalism: My Peoples’ Satanic Doctrine ( Hiiraan Online)

July 31, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Eleven Die As Local Forces Battled Al-Shabaab (Goobjoog News)
High-Level Partnership Forum Ends Communiqué Issued (Shabelle News)
Ambassador: China Will Not Withdraw Embassy From Somalia (Bar-Kulan Radio)
Somalia President Approves Credentials Of New Kenyan Ambassador (Horseed Media)
PM Omar: We Will Make Sure We Achieve Set Goals (Goobjoog News)
Transit Police Chief Harrington Pays Visit To Somalia (MPR News)
UN Extends AMISOM’s Stay In Somalia To Support The Political Process In The Country (Standard Digital)
Somalia Partners Want Additional Resources To Deal With Al-Shabaab Threats (Bernama.com)
Obama In East Africa: U.S. Imperialism Sows Turmoil Throughout Region (Workersword.org)
OpEd: How Constant Violence Shapes A Nation (Sahal Journal)
ROLSIG: DDR Section (UNSOM)