May 16, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

Turkish Airlines Resumes Flights To Mogadishu After Somali Plane Bombing (Hiiraan Online)
Puntland President Fires Top Security Commanders (Garowe Online)
Somalia Marks May 15 National Youth Day (Garowe Online)
Jubaland President Fires First Deputy Replaces With Longtime Opposition (Goobjoog News)
Somalia Police Bust Mogadishu Terror Cell Explosives Displayed (Garowe Online)
Somalia Promotes New Fish Diet To Fight Hunger (Al Jazeera)
Al-Shabaab Militants Flee As Military Onslaught Intensifies In S. Somalia (Xinhua)
War-Weary Somalis Flee For Europe As Rebuilding Comes Too Slow (Bloomberg)
Somali Refugees Deserve Better Than Being Sent Back To Danger (Daily Nation)

U.S. Air Strike Kills Five Al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia – Pentagon (Reuters)
Somali Cabinet Approves Anti-Corruption Bill (Goobjoog News)
Somali Forces Withdraw From Marka Town Over Unknown Reasons (Shabelle News)
International Concerns Grow As Kenya Vows To Shut World’s Largest Refugee Camps (Hiiraan Online)
Somalia Protests Against Kenyan Plan To Close Refugee Camp (Channel News Asia)
Minneapolis Terrorism Trial Focuses on IS Recruitment (Voice of America)

Somalia: Puntland Election Commission Officially Launched (Garowe Online)
Somalia Complains Of Mistreatment Of Citizens In Foreign Jails (Horseed Media)
Deputy PM Warns Against Looting Of Nation’s Asset (Shabelle News)
Despite Warnings Somalia Set To Send Domestic Workers To Saudi Arabia (Hiiraan Online)
Beledweyn Residents Protest Over Use Of U.S. Dollar Currency (Radio Dalsan)
EU Vows More Support For Somalia (Shabelle News)
Somalia Army Chief Confirms Surprise Raid On Militants (Garowe Online)
Somalia Hands Over Weapons Stolen By Al-Shabaab To Kenya (Citizen Digital)
Russia May Consider Supplying Arms to Somalia Libya If Situation Improves (Sputnik News)
Somalia: UN Calls For Urgent Action To Support Drought-hit Communities (UN News Centre)
Kenya Drawing Up Timetable To Close Refugee Camp For Somalia (Reuters)
German Tanker Joins Op Atalanta Off The Coast Of Somalia (Naval Today)
Graphic Videos Luring Tweets — Terrorism Trial Zeros In On Islamic State Recruiting (Los Angeles Times)
Is Politics Why Kenya Wants to Close Refugee Camps? (VOA)

Somalia Gearing Up To Send Domestic Workers To Saudi Arabia (Horseed Media)
Jubaland Police Defuse Landmine Foiling Militant Bid (Garowe Online)
Gunmen Shot Dead Mogadishu Airport Staff (Radio Dalsan)
Chief of Justice Hands Over Office To His Successor (Shabelle News)
EU Pledges Support For Stabilization Of Somalia (Xinhua)
MPR Reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim Treated Differently At ISIS Trial (City Pages)
36 Suspected Al-Shabaab Arrested In Operation Linda Boni (The Star)
Process To Gain Refugee Status: “A Money Making Scheme” (The Citizen Justice Network)

Committee Examines Somalia Election Proposal (Garowe Online)
Somalia Leaders US Delegation Discuss Upcoming Elections (Horseed Media)
Somalia Moves To Limit Charcoal Use (Horseed Media)
Parliament To Deny Regional Heads Powers To Sign Off List Of MPs Elect In 2016 Polls (Goobjoog News)
Somalia To Bring Its Nationals In Italy Back Home (Shabelle News)
Shibis Police Commissioner Calls On Residents To Help Improve Security (Goobjoog News)
Regional PACs To Engage Somalia Djibouti (New Times)
AMISOM To Build Community Hospital In Eel-Jaalle Village in Marka Lower Shabelle Region (AMISOM)
Closing Refugee Camps Is Escapist Says ODM (The Star)
U.N. Concerned By Kenyan Threat To Close Refugee Camps (Reuters)
Somali Community Remembers Youth Activist (MPR News)
Somalia Security Forces Arrest 2 Al-Shabaab Militants (Xinhua)
As The Kenyan Minister For National Security Here’s Why I’m Shutting The World’s Biggest Refugee Camp (The Independent)

ICAO Hands Over Airspace Control Equipment To Somalia
Markets Closed As Inflation Soars In Puntland (Hiiraan Online)
Government To Adopt Integrated Finance To Curb Graft And Enhance Efficiency Finance Minister Says(Goobjoog News)
Djibouti President Sworn In For Fourth Term In Office (Hiiraan Online)
Turkey Sends Aid Ship To Somalia (Anadolu Agency)
Somali Migrants Protest Video Posted By Swedish Parliament Member (Voice of America)
U.S.-Funded Somali Intelligence Agency Has Been Using Kids As Spies (Washington Post)

Former Al-Shabaab Combatant Calls On Other Women To Renounce Terrorism
(UNSOM)
Puntland Security Minister wounded in Bossaso gunfire Exchange (Garowe Online)
Islamic State Says It Carried Out Second Attack In Somalia (Shabelle News)
AMISOM Claims Killing 25 Al-Shabaab Militants In Central Somalia (Shabelle News)
Somali MP Calls For Inclusion Of Minorities In Power Sharing (Radio Dalsan)
Somalia: Puntland To Address Street Children Welfare (Horseed Media)
NUSOJ Elections Postponed Over Puntland Delegates Delay (Radio Dalsan)
ISIS Trying To Set Up Base In Somalia (Standard Media)
Homeland Security Investigating Alleged Somali Profiling By TSA (MPR News)
An Unlikely Early Adopter Of Paris Climate Agreement: Somalia (Public Radio International – PRI)
Somaliland Is A Different Country From Somalia – CNN-Anderson Cooper (Wardheer News)

Somali President Sacks Chief Justice Over Corruption (Radio Dalsan)
Livestock Prices Go Down As Drought Ravages Jubaland (Goobjoog News)
Al-Shabaab Demotes Lower Shabelle Representative (Radio Dalsan)
At Least 1 Policeman Killed 4 Others Injured In Blast In Somalia (Xinhua)
RAF Provides Fresh Aid For Somalia (The Peninsula)
Foiled Kenya Anthrax Plot Hints At Islamic State’s Scramble For Africa (Foreign Policy)

Somalia Parliament Debates Election Model (Garowe Online)
Somali Special Force Overrun ISIS Training Facility (Radio Dalsan)
Two People Killed In Galkayo Clashes (Goobjoog News)
Human Rights Watch Urges Somalia To Protect Journalists (TRT World)
Somali Refugee In Critical Condition After Setting Herself On Fire (UPI)
Somali Journalists Stay Committed To Work In Country Ranked Among The World’s Most Dangerous(AMISOM)

SNA And AMISOM Troops Retake Runirgod After Al-Shabaab Retreats (Shabelle News)
We Are Consistent In Paying Our Soldiers – President (Goobjoog News)
Hundreds In Puntland Protest Against Currency Devaluation (Garowe Online)
Somalia Launches Operation In Middle Shabelle Against Al-Shabaab (Xinhua)
Slovakia Receives 37 Somalis From Camps in Eritrea (UNHCR)
St. Paul Imam Finds Himself At The Center Of A Storm Over Law And Faith (Star Tribune)