January 27, 2017 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Keating: Presidential Elections Must Be Free And Fair (VOA Somali)
  • Presidential Candidates Meet In The Capital Mogadishu (Garowe Online)
  • One Dies As Al-Shabaab Fighters Attack SNA Military Base In Bardhere (Goobjoog News)
  • Deadly Attacks On Hotels And Restaurants In Somalia Are Robbing The Country Of Its Last Safe Spaces (Quartz)
  • Doctors Without Borders Says It Plans To Return To Somalia (The New York Times)
  • Somalia: No Country For Honest Men (Hiiraan Online)

January 27, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Opposition Presidential Candidates Call For Fair Play In February 8 Poll (Goobjoog News)
  • Elders Set To Intervene In Galmudug Political Crises (Shabelle News)
  • Banadir Administration Hosts Welcoming Event For Presidential Hopeful Farole (Garowe Online)
  • Hormuud Telecom Donates $600000 To Support Famine Victims (Shabelle News)
  • Nine Militants Killed In Foiled Attack In Somalia Town (Xinhua)
  • If Trump Really Knew The Somalis Of Minnesota He Would Rethink His Cruel Ban On Refugees (Forward)
January 27, 2017 | Morning Headlines

January 26, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Somalia Sets Presidential Election For February 8 (Daily Mail)
  • Two Prominent Clan Elders Killed In Mogadishu Hotel Attack Three Others Injured (Goobjoog News)
  • Somalia’s Presidential Poll Committee Elects Chairperson (Goobjoog News)
  • US Deports 90 Back Home to Somalia (VOA)
  • UN Mission Condemns Al-Shabaab Attack On Popular Mogadishu Hotel (UN News Centre)
  • A Bloody Reminder For Somalia: Chaos Is Never Far Away (The New York Times)
January 26, 2017 | Morning Headlines

January 25, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Speaker Jawari Takes Over Somalia As The Acting President Ahead Of President Elections (Radio Dalsan)
  • Jubbaland AU Forces Capture Badhadhe In Southern Somalia (Goobjoog News)
  • Puntland Ministry For Women Vows To Seek Justice For Rape Victims (Goobjoog News
  • AU Call For Deployment Of 4000 Additional Troops In Somalia (All East Africa)
  • Fleeing Civil War A Somali Performance Artist Finds Refuge In Minnesota
January 25, 2017 | Morning Headlines

January 24, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Al-Shabaab Fighting Kills 5 (Anadolu Agency)
  • Three Killed In Fighting Between SNA And Al-Shabaab In Middle Shabelle Official Confirms (Goobjoog News)
  • Galmudug Parliament In Deadlock Over Leadership (Shabelle News)
  • Food Supplies To Mogadishu To Drastically Fall As River Shabelle Dries Up( Goobjoog News)
  • Qatar Red Crescent Society Prepares Relief Mission To War-torn Somalia (Gulf Times)
  • Somaliland: Hating Politics (Somaliland Informer)
January 24, 2017 | Morning Headlines

January 23, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Somalia Upper House Elects New Speaker (VOA)
  • Elders Refuse To Transfer Gang-rape Case To Galkayo Court Accused Of Shielding Rapists (Hiiraan Online)
  • Heavy Inter-clan Clashes Near Mahaday Kills Two (Shabelle News)
  • Ali Ameriko Hails Election Of Upper House Speaker (Shabelle News)
  • Police Commander Killed In Attack In Somalia’s Middle Shabelle Region (VOA)
  • What President Trump’s Policies Mean For Somalia And Security In Greater East Africa (The EastAfrican)
January 23, 2017 | Morning Headlines

January 20, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • UN Alarm That Most Of Al-Shabab’s Force In Somalia Are Kids (Associated Press)
  • Three More MPs Elected From Somaliland As Poll Nears Close (Goobjoog News)
  • Allied Forces Carry Out Security Sweep In Burhakaba Arrest Dozens (Garowe Online)
  • Burundian Peacekeepers Serving In Somalia To Get Salary Arrears: AU Official (Xinhua)
  • Fears Missing Passenger In Somalia Flight May Have Been A Wanted Fugitive And Sneaked Into Kenya (Nep Journal)
  • Kenya Third Most Represented Country In The Newly Elected Parliament Of Somalia (Nep Journal)
  • 5 Key Takeaways On The Gaalkacyo Conflict And Galmudug Crisis (Messenger Africa)
January 20, 2017 | Morning Headlines

January 19, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Saudi Arabia Names First Envoy To Somalia Since 1990 (Goobjoog News)
  • Two Dead Three Injured In Bardere Grenade Explosion (Garowe Online)
  • Somali Fishermen In Elbur Complain About Illegal Vessels (Goobjoog News)
  • River Shabelle Is Drying Up (Goobjoog News)
  • Somalia Urged To Enforce Law On Sexual Offences After Gang Rape Of 16-year-old (The Guardian)
  • Former Somali President ‘Confident’ In Election Victory (All East Africa)
  • Closing The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Is A Complicated Process (MPR)
  • We Want Real Justice Warns Mother Of Teenage Somali Girl Gang-raped By Six Youths (Radio Ergo)
January 19, 2017 | Morning Headlines

January 18, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Presidential Election Postponed In Somaliland (Garowe Online)
  • Somali AU Forces Capture Bariire In Southwest Somalia (Goobjoog News)
  • Two More MPs Elected To Lower House As Electoral Process Resumed In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • U.N. Warns Of Famine Risk In Somalia Amid Worsening Drought (Reuters)
  • Five Detained In Somalia Gang Rape (VOA News)
  • What Is At Stake As Somalia Goes To The Polls (Daily Nation)
January 18, 2017 | Morning Headlines

January 17, 2017 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • FAO Seeks 26 Million USD To Help 1.5 Million Somalis (Xinhua)
  • Somaliland Elect Three Candidates To Upper House (Goobjoog News)
  • Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony For First Polytechnic College Held In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • Somali Military Court Sentences Three To 10 Years In Jail For Violent Robbery (Goobjoog News)
  • AMISOM Troops From Ethiopia Donate Food To Needy Residents Of Gobwein Village Lower Jubba Region (AMISOM)
  • Somalia’s Crooked Route To Democracy (World Street Journal)
January 17, 2017 | Morning Headlines