October 25, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Somalia’s Electoral Body Sets New Measures To Prevent Corruption (Garowe Online)
  • Galkayo Fighting Claims Another Five Lives PM Calls For Truce (Goobjoog News)
  • Top Somali Army General Shot Dead In Mogadishu (Shabelle News)
  • Clashes In Somalia Displace 75000 As Rains Threaten: U.N.(Thomson Reuters Foundation)
  • One Church Opens For Faithful Catholic Remnant In Somalia (Catholic World News)
  • From The US Army To Al-Shabaab: The Man Who Wanted To Live Under Sharia Law (The Guardian UK)
October 25, 2016 | Morning Headlines

October 24, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • AMISOM Troops Deployed To Cadaado Town (Garowe Online)
  • Somalia Seeks Entry Into Comesa (Goobjoog News)
  • Somalia Has New Presidential Candidate For 2016 Elections  (Goobjoog News)
  • President Praises AMISOM For Role In Hirshabelle Formation (Shabelle News)
  • Fighting In Somalia Kills At least Seven soldiers: Officials (Reuters)
  • Somali Pirate Says 26 Asian Sailors Freed After 4 Years (Associated Press/Hiiraan Online)
  • BOOK REVIEW: Tarzan In The Ruins Of Somalia (The East African)
October 24, 2016 | Morning Headlines

October 21, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Galmudug Senators Raise Red Flag Over Galkayo Fighting Call For Truce (Goobjoog News)
  • Italy To Help Somalia Hold A Peaceful Election In 2016 (Shabelle News)
  • Three Women Voted In Former Warlord Locked Out In Puntland Senate Polls (Goobjoog News)
  • AU Mission Seeks To Improve Humanitarian Aid Delivery In Somalia (Xinhua)
  • Speak Up Against Hate Crimes Minnesota Somalis And Supporters Say (Star Tribune)
  • Asha Abdulle Siyad – Pushing The Boundaries For Somali Women (Relief Web)
October 21, 2016 | Morning Headlines

October 20, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Jubbaland And South West States Finish Senate Polls As 5 Quit Race In Baidoa (Goobjoog News)
  • HiirShabelle New President To Meet Federal Leaders In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • Upper House Candidates Concluded Their Campaign Speech (Garowe Online)
  • Al Jazeera Journalist Hamza Mohamed Detained In Somalia (Aljazeera)
  • Death Toll In Attack On Southern Somali Town Rises To 11 (Reuters)
  • Somalia Faces Election Challenges (VOA)
October 20, 2016 | Morning Headlines

October 19, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Newly Elected Senators From Galmudug On First Assignment In Jowhar (Goobjoog News)
  • AMISOM and UNOCHA Hold First Regional Civil-Military Working Group Meeting In Baidoa (SONNA)
  • Somali Intelligence Detains Al Jazeera Journalist (Radio Dalsan)
  • Somali Troops Battle Al-Shabaab Fighters In Afgoye (Aljazeera)
  • One Killed As Police Engage Shabaab Gunmen In Mandera (Daily Nation)
  • ‘The Mayor of Mogadishu’ –Predicting Hope Beyond Somalia’s Struggles (Capital FM Kenya)
October 19, 2016 | Morning Headlines

October 18, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Puntland President Agrees Peace Deal With Galmudug (Garowe Online)
  • New President Elected For Hiirshabelle State  (Goobjoog News)
  • Pro-govt Army Recapture Town After Al-Shabaab Retreat (Shabelle News)
  • 3 Suspects In Bomb Plot Against Somalis To Face Kansas Court (Associated Press/Hiiraan Online)
  • Somalia Closes Newspaper Arrests Editor (CPJ)
  • Meet The Courageous Women Fighting Terrorism In Africa (Take Part)
October 18, 2016 | Morning Headlines

October 17, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Somalia Gets First Senators As Galmudug Concludes Upper House Polls (Goobjoog News)
  • Somali Presidential Candidate Decries Corruption In Upper House Elections (Radio Dalsan)
  • Jubbaland Holds Graduation Ceremony For Youth Vocational Training In Kismaayo (Goobjoog News)
  • UN Confirms It Objected Names Of Former Warlords In Senate Race (Goobjoog News)
  • Somali Government Shuts Down Newspaper Arrests Editor (Reuters)
  • 26000 Somali Refugees Confirm Intention To Return Home (Daily Nation)
  • In Somalia U.S. Escalates a Shadow War (New York Times)
October 17, 2016 | Morning Headlines

October 14, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Tension Escalates In Galkayo As Puntland And Galmudug Forces Dig In For Battle (Goobjoog News)
  • Two Al-Shabaab Militants Killed In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
  • IED Blast Targets Military Convoy Near Baidoa Five Dead (Shabelle News)
  • Al-Shabaab Militants Kill ‘2 spies’ In Somalia (Anadolu Agency)
  • Details Emerge Of Turkish Military Base In Somalia (Anadolu Agency)
  • For Somalis Despite Its Wonderful Contribution To Public Health Sanitation Still A Taboo (Hiiraan Online)
October 14, 2016 | Morning Headlines

October 13, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Less Than Half Of Delegates Lists Submitted Two Days After Deadline Lapse (Goobjoog News)
  • Puntland Minister Blamed For Taking Part In Clashes Between Puntland Galmudug (Garowe Online)
  • Three Dead And Seven Injured After Galmudug And Ahlusunna Fight Near Cadaado (Goobjoog News)
  • U.S. Probes Somalia’s Airstrikes Claims (Xinhua)
  • Corruption Investigation Into Michael Howard’s African Oil Firm Soma Dropped (The Telegraph UK)
  • Somalia’s Female Presidential Candidate: ‘If Loving My Land Means I Die So Be It’ (The Guardian)
October 13, 2016 | Morning Headlines

October 12, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Risk Of Another Poll Delay As Clans And Regional States Miss Deadlines (Goobjoog News)
  • Puntland Accuses Somali Government Of Backing Galmudug (Garowe Online)
  • Traditional Elders Relate Galkayo Tensions With “Political Motives (Villa Puntland)
  • Briton Arrested In Gigiri Al-Shabaab Swoop Identified As Tom James (The Star Kenya)
  • Somali Youths Urged To Fully Participate In The 2016 Electoral Process (AMISOM)
  • Somali Refugees Decry Empty Promises On Return From Dadaab (News Deeply)
October 12, 2016 | Morning Headlines