December 5, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

Somalia Holds High-Level Security Conference To Deliberate On A Security Transition Plan (AMISOM)
Somalia Appeals For Increased Security Sector Financing (Goobjoog News)
Mogadishu Mayor Opens Service Center & Launches First Automated Payment (Radio Dalsan)
Somalia’s House of Representatives Approve Ms. Mumino Sheikh Omar as Member of Independent Commission for Constitutional Review (SONNA)
UAE Ambassador Somali Leader Discuss Various Cooperation Efforts (Emirates News Agency)
Somaliland After The Elections: Old Traps New Challenges (The Conversation)

Somalia To Host High-level Conference On Security (AMISOM)
Farmaajo Orders Repatriation Of Somali Migrants In Libya (Radio Dalsan)
Donors To Commit Funding For Security Pact In Monday Conference (Goobjoog News)
How Lethal Al-Shabaab Spy Was Caught (Daily Nation)
Final Death Toll In Somalia’s Worst Attack Is 512 People (The Washington Post)
Mogadishu’s iHub Offers An Optimistic Innovative Hi-tech Future For Somalia (RFI.fr)

First 2400 Troops From Puntland Integration Into Somali National Army (Goobjoog News)
Somali Government Forces Ambush Al-Shabaab Bases Near Qoryoley Town (Radio Shabelle News)
The Federal Government of Somalia Introduces New System Of Army Payroll (SONNA)
Death Toll From October Somalia Truck Bomb Now 512 (Middle Eastern Monitor)
Somalia: Humanitarian Needs Growing And Increasingly Severe (Relief Web)

AMISOM Police Commissioner Ends Tour Of Duty In Somalia (AMISOM)
Somalia: HirShabelle President Names New cabinet (Garowe Online)
Ex Al-Shabaab Leader Roobow Returns Home (Radio Dalsan)
United States Conducts Airstrike In Support Of The Federal Government Of Somalia (Africa News Room)
Somalia: Failed Rains Threaten Nomad Way Of life (ICRC)

Qatar Development Funds Supports Somali Economy (The Peninsula)
Somalia: Suspected Militants IEDs Seized In Mogadishu (Garowe Online)
Gunmen Kill Female Army Officer Near Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
U.S. Military Says It Conducted Airstrike Against Islamic State In Somalia Killing One (Japan Times)
Somaliland’s Hollow Elections (Wardheere News)

Somalia: President Farmaajo Jets Off To Kenya (Garowe Online)
Galmudug And Ahlu Sunna Talks To Kick Off In Djibouti (Hiiraan Online)
Japan Boosts UNICEF’s Relief Efforts In Somalia With $3 Million Grant (Goobjoog News)
US Targets IS In Somalia Airstrike (Voice of America)
An Open Letter To President Elect Muse Bihi (Wardheer News)

Somali PM Appoints New Defense Minister (Xinhuanet)
President Farmaajo Commission’s First Public Defense Recruits (Goobjoog News)
Somali PM Fires Religious Affairs Minister Following Internal Rift (Somali Update)
Kenyan Al-Shabaab Recruits Fleeing US Airstrikes In Somalia – Kanyiri (The Star)
Washington’s Chicken-and-Egg War In Somalia (Theweek.com)

Somali Parliament Paid Over $700000 To Families Of 26 Deceased MPs Since 2013 (Goobjoog News)
Somali Military Officers to Complete Training on Engendering Women (Somali Update)
Federal Gov’t Detains Soldier Who Shot Dead Regional MP In Mogadishu (Hiiraan Online)
Somali Pirates Caught At Sea Transferred To Seychelles (News24)
As ISIS Fades Al-Shabaab Is Building Its Own Islamist State (Alawaba News)

Somaliland Picks Ruling Party’s Candidate As New President (Reuters)
Burao Residents Protest Against Electricity Price Hikes (Hiiraan Online)
First Police Station Established In Buula-Burde Village (Sahala News)
US Airstrike In Somalia Kills More Than 100 Al-Shabaab Militants (CNN.com)
Partnering With Somalia’s Police To Build Counterterrorism Capacity (Voice of America)

PM Receives Former Somalia President In Mogadishu (Sahal News)
Somalia: Former NISA chief to respond to House allegation (Garowe Online)
Galmudug Appeals For Humanitarian Aid After Severe Drought (Radio Shabelle)
Mohamed bin Zayed Receives Somali President Discuss Relations Fighting Terrorism (Emirates News Agency)
Scarred by Terrorism Civil War Somalia Is Failing to Feed 6.7mln Citizens (Fars News)