July 2, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somalia Petroleum Minister “Kenya Cannot Do Oil Exploration Inside Our Maritime Borders” (Goobjoog News)
Puntland President Makes First Public Comments On Adado conference (Garowe Online)
Somaliland: President To Visit Saudi Arabia (Somaliland Sun)
Mogadishu Mayor Receives Presidential Accolade (Goobjoog news)
Queen Elizabeth Awards Abdikadir From Garissa As Somalis Celebrate His Achievement (Somali Current)
Somalia Grenade Attack Injures Two soldiers (Radio Danaan)
Somalia Debates On Banning Burqas (CCTV)
How I was De-radicalised (BBC)
Somalia: Teenage University Student Gang Raped (Sudan Tribune)
Al-Shabaab Attacks Expose AMISOM Weaknesses (VoA)
Letter From A Concerned Norwegian To Somali Government Globetrotters (Sahan Journal)

July 1, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somalia Marks 55th Independence Anniversary (Goobjoog News)
Qaybdiid Lashes Out At Puntland Over Anti-Galmudug State Demos (Wacaal Media)
UN Envoy Congratulates Somalia On 55th Independence Anniversary (Shabelle Media)
Government Soldier Shoots Pregnant Woman Dead (Goobjoog News)
Threat Us No Day We’ll Not Negotiate Our boundaries Says Somalia President (Somali Current)
China’s Investment In Africa Shifting Towards Manufacturing: WB (China Daily/Xinhua)
New Gun Charge Against Man Convicted Of Threatening FBI Agents (Star Tribune)
It Has Suffered Yes But As Somalia’s Marks 55 years Of Independence These Are Its Happy Stories (Mail & Guardian Africa)

June 30, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Ethiopian Forces Take Charge Of Leego Army Base (Somali Current)
Application For The Galmudug Presidential Candidates Opens Today(Goobjoog News)
MPs Grill Interior And Federalism Minister About Independent Commissions (Goobjoog News)
Ethiopia Tells Somali´s Leaders To Solve Their Own Problems (Somali Current)
Africa Energy Withdraws From Puntland Somalia Blocks (Market Watch)
Kenya Somalia In talks To End Border Row Out Of UN court (Business Daily)
UoN Students On Al- Shabaab Payroll – Police (The Star Kenya)
On The Other Side Of The Camp (White House Blogs)

June 29, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somalia’s Shabaab Attacks Army Camp Killing Several (Capital News)
Himan And Heeb Ditches Adaado For Ahlusunna’s Own Version Of The Conference (Wacaal Media)
Eastleigh Residents Take To The Streets And Give Government One Week Ultimatum (Hiiraan (Online)
Hyenas Kill Children In the Outskirts Of Lascanod (Radio Ergo)
Somalia Police Launches An Operation Near Mogadishu (Shabelle News)
Somalia Islamist Attacks Test Goal of Al-Shabaab Defeat by 2016 (Bloomberg)
QC Initiative Benefits 500 Somali Families (Menafn.com )
UN Security Council Condemns Attack Against Peace Mission Base In Somalia (Azeri Press Agency)
UN Official Commends Election Of Speaker Of Regional Assembly (UN News Centre)
China Provides Education Equipment To Somalia’s Orphanage Home (Global Post/Xinhua)
Somalia’s Grasslands: A Threatened National Treasure (Hiiraan Online)

June 26, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somali Militants Attack African Union Peacekeepers’ Base (Reuters)
Government And AMISOM Forces Repel Al-Shabaab In Qoryoley Attack (Wacaal Media)
Jubbaland President Concludes His Visit To Ethiopia (Goobjoog News)
Efforts To End Tensions In Puntland As Renegade General Threatens Government (Goobjoog News)
Puntland Bashes Federal Parliament Speaker Galmudug Not Recognized (Garowe Online)
MPs Sign Move To Table Motion Of No Confidence Against Somali President (Dalsan Radio)
Somalia’s Journalists Are Under Al-Shabaab’s Gun (The Daily Star Lebanon)
How Britain’s Khat Ban Devastated An Entire Kenyan Town(The Guardian)
Security Council Condemns Attack On Diplomats In Somalia (Business Standard)
Stakeholders Keen To Resolve Somalia Differences – Official (Star Africa)
In Search Of Recognition (Buenos Aires Herald)
‘Becoming Chinese’: Meet The First Somali With A Home Return Permit (Post Magazine)
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Professor Scorned (Wardheer News)

June 25, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Bomb Attack Will Not Deter Us From Supporting Somalia Says UAE Minister (Arabian Business)
Jubbaland Head Of State Arrives In Addis Ababa As State Seeks Deployment Of Ethiopian Forces In Its Territories (Wacaal Media)
Government To Register Private Sector Employees For Security Reasons (Goobjoog News)
Ahlusuna Set To Hold Own Version of ‘Adaado Conference’ In Dhuusamareeb Today (Wacaal Media)
EU Developmental Projects To Somalia To Be Managed By Government (Goobjoog News)
Minister Holds A Series Of Regional Aviation Dialogues With ICAO (Geeska Afrika)
62 Convicted Somali Pirates Repatriated (The Star Kenya)
UPDF Officer Killed In Somalia Laid To Rest (New Vision Uganda)
Sitting Down With Somali Nomads (Garowe Online)

June 24, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somali Police In Baidoa Ordered To Stop Chewing Khat (Goobjoog News)
President Meets UN Humanitarian Coordinator To Say Farewell (Dalsan Radio)
Selection Of MPs For South West Assembly Postponed (Goobjoog News)
Farmers Reap Rewards Of Best Practices Training (Radio Ergo)
Sheikh Noor Barud Gurhan Says Aden Consular Derailing Evacuation Efforts (Goobjoog News)
Gunmen Killed An Elder In Mogadishu 3rd Assassination In The Capital In A Day (Wacaal Media)
Money Remittance Firms Linked To Terrorism In Drive To Spruce Up Image (Standard Digital)
Ellison Emmer Form Somalia Caucus At US Capitol (MPR News)
Regional Bloc Lauds Kenya For Lifting Ban On Somali Remittance Firms (Xinhua)
Somalia’s Looming Constitutional Crisis pt. 2: the Mudug Crisis (Hiiraan Online)
Dadaab Refugees – A Plea For Dignity (MSF)

June 23, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Parliament Speaker Says Galmudug State Is A Product Made in Somalia (Goobjoog News)
Galmudug: Leading Presidential Candidate Calls On Federal Government To Incorporate Ahlu Sunna Wal Jameeca In Cadaado Talks (Jowhar Online)
Jubbaland Head Of State Leaves For Addis Ababa As State Seeks To Bring Ethiopian Troops To Come To Its Territories (Wacaal Media)
Leadership Training For Mogadishu Women (Radio Ergo)
Uganda’s Police Issues Security Terror Alert (New Vision)
2 Minnesota Women Invited To Sit At Obama’s Table At Annual White House Ramadan Dinner (Star Tribune)
Mayors Urge Federal Action On Somali Remittances (Ballard-News Tribune)
Al-Shabaab Continues To Impact Somalia And Kenya (Chicago Monitor)
Remittance Companies Help To Build Somalia (The Star Kenya)

June 22, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Somali Parliament Speaker Arrives In Cadaado (Mustqbal Radio)
NISA Carries Out An Operation In Geedo Town (Jowhar Online)
Finance Minister “We have 49% Of Budget Deficit ” (Goobjoog News)
Somali President Receives IGAD Delegation At His Office (Goobjoog News)
Galmudug Assembly Set To Open Today (Somali Current)
Three KDF Servicemen Injured After IED Explodes In Lamu (Standard Digital)
Somalia Parliament In Heated Debate Over Border With Kenya (Standard Digital)
Mo Farah Gets Back To Work In The French Pyrennees After An Extraordinary Week Of Revelations And Denials (Daily Mail)
Somalia Gets First IMF Review Of Its Economy In 25 Years (The Africa Report)
Reflection on Hassan M. Abukar’s ‘Mogadishu Memoir’ (Sahan Journal)
It’s Not Yet Too Late For KDF Troops To Leave Somalia To Promote Peace There (Daily Nation)

June 19, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Al-Shabaab Engages Government Forces In Fierce Gunfight After Raiding Their Camp In Gedo Region(Wacaal Media)
Somali President Tours Examination Centres In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
Fewer Girls Graduate From High School In Buhodle (Radio Ergo)
Federal Cabinet Passes Judicial Bill (Garowe Online)
Jubbaland President Accepts UN Mediation With Federal Government (Goobjoog News)
AU Lauds Amisom And Somali Security Forces For Foiling Terror Attack In Adaado (Somali Current)
Al-Shabab Somalia Attacks: Military Base Stormed Hours After Raid On Government Building (International Business Times)
Kenyan Police Join In Manhunt For German ‘Al-Shabaab’ Suspect (Coast Week/Xinhua)
UAE People & Politics: Policy In Africa Is All About Stability And Cooperation (The National UAE)
Kenya To Hand Back Licences To 13 Somali Money Transfer Firms (Reuters)
Mediterranean Crisis: Migrants Detail Horrors That Caused Them to Flee (Human Rights Watch)