March 18, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

Federal Government Deploys Weapons To Puntland As Clash With Al-Shabaab Intensifies (Goobjoog News)
Puntland Leader Vows To Crush Militants Without Outside Help (Hiiraan Online)
Cabinet To Mobilise Emergency Aid As Drought Ravages Central And Northern Somalia(Goobjoog News)
Five Jubbaland Soldiers Killed In Al Shabaab Attack (Shabelle News)
Somalis And Libyans Are Actually Happier Than Nigerians And South Africans (AFK Insider)
Station Looks Beyond Anti-piracy Mission (China Daily)
Why Many Africans Wouldn’t Make Good Suicide Bombers (Daily Nation)

KDF Kills 19 Al-Shabaab Militants Recover Vehicle 10 AK 47 Rifles And 3 RPGs In Lower Juba Somalia(The Standard)
11 Militants Killed As Puntland Commences Clean-up Operation (Garowe Online)
Somali President Meets Burundian Deputy President In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
MP Godah Barre: President Mohamud Is Responsible For Failed State Formation Conference (Goobjoog News)
NUSOJ Disbanded Call For Fresh Elections (Radio Dalsan)
African Union On Joint Efforts Against Somali Islamists (Prensa Latina)
Bus Driver Injured In Al Shabaab Attack In Mandera Appeals For Medical Help (Daily Nation)
Mattarella Visits Refugee Camp Leaves Message For All (ANSA Online)
Q&A: Online Training Revives Somalia’s Mental Healthcare (Science Dev)

AU Special Envoy For Somalia Calls For Joint Efforts In The Fight Against Al Shabaab (AMISOM)
Al-Shabaab Commander Killed In Raid In Lower Jubba (Goobjoog News)
Al Shabaab Kidnaps 3 Aid Workers In Gedo Region (Shabelle News)
Puntland VP Holds Emergency Security Meeting (Garowe Online)
Insects Destroy Vegetable Farms In Hiiraan (Goobjoog News)
Somalia’s Al-Shabaab Pull Out From Puntland Port Minister Says (Bloomberg)
Student Claims He Suffered Racial Abuse By Police Had No Option But To Admit To Charges (Independent Online)
Fighting Terrorism With A Lean Purse (National Mirror)

African Union Special Envoy For Somalia Holds Security Meeting With Somalia President (AMISOM)
EU Launches 9 New Projects In Support Of Civil Society And Human Rights In Somalia (Hiiraan Online)
Security Operations In Afgoye And Barawe Towns Net Several People (Goobjoog News)
Somali Oil And Gas Company Rejects Links With Al-Shabaab (Radio Dalsan)
Kuwait Pledges To Support Somalia In The Fight Against Terrorism (Goobjoog News)
Spotlight: Kenya Somalia In Joint Efforts To Curb Terrorism Along Border (Xinhua News)
I Will Sit Down With Al Shabaab As President Fatuma Dayib (All Africa News)
Somalis Remanded In Custody After Pleading Not Guilty To Attempted Thefts From Vehicles In Gozo(Independent Online)
How The Famous Cardiff City Shirt Is Helping To Change The Lives Of Desperate Orphans In War-ravaged Somalia (Wales Online)

Amid Attacks Somali Parliament Seeks Better Welfare For Armed Forces (Hiiraan Online)
Seven People Die Of Diarrhoea 34 Others Recuperating In Sanguni Town Middle Jubba (Goobjoog News)
Somali Court Sentences 5 To Death Over Twin Deadly Blasts (Hiiraan Online)
Count Us Out Of State Formation Process Elders In Hiiraan And Middle Shabelle Declare (Goobjoog News)
Al-Shabaab Still Poses Big Threat To Region Say Experts (Daily Nation)
KDF Soldier Hangs Himself After Somalia Mission (The Standard)
AMISOM Acting Force Commander Tours Recently Liberated Towns In Forward Operation Bases(AMISOM)
Normalcy Returns To Biyo-Adde A Month After Liberation From Al-Shabaab (AMISOM)
Money Dead Bodies And The Allure Of Peacekeeping (The EastAfrican)

Resource Shortage For AMISOM And SNA Derailing War On Al-Shabaab – Africom (Goobjoog News)
Somali Special Force Played Key Part In Awdhigle Operation US Official (Radio Dalsan)
Landmine Blast Wounds Policeman In Bardere City (Shabelle News)
President Of Puntland Urges The General Public To Help Those Affected By Current Droughts (Wacaal Media)
6 Somali Groups Get Grant To Fight Terrorism Recruitment (Associated Press)
Somali Terror Suspect ‘Just Awaiting Order’ Says Prosecutor (Ansa Online)
QC Renovates Seven Wells In Somalia (The Peninsular)
Elephant Back To Somalia For First Time In 2 Decades: Conservationists (Xinhua)
Why Didn’t A Kenyan Make This Film About Shabaab In Nairobi? (Daily Nation)

Raso Drone Airstrike Killed Senior Al-Shabaab Fighters Including Foreign Fighters (Goobjoog News)
Germany Donates €2.5 Million To Assist IDPs In Mogadishu (Hiiraan Online)
Democratization Back On Agenda In Puntland (Garowe Online)
Somali Commissioner Meets His Italian Counterpart In Rome (Goobjoog News)
Italy Arrests Somali Cleric Over Alleged Plans For Rome Attack (Reuters)
Somalia Marks International Women’s Day (UNSOM)
Prosecutors: Drop Charges In Somali Sex Trafficking Case (Star Tribune)
Despite US Airstrikes Somalia’s Al-Shabaab Militia Is Rising Again (The Orange County Register)

US Kills 150 Al Shabaab Militants In Somalia (The Telegraph)
Hiiraan Elders Snub New Round Of Inter-Regional State Formation Talks (Hiiraan Online)
Fugitive Former Warlord Abdinur Siyad Detained By Somali Security Forces (Goobjoog News)
Al Shabaab Commander Arrested In Qoryooley Town (Goobjoog News)
Australian Naval Vessel Seizes Weapons Cache Bound For Somalia (Deutsche Welle News)
Somali Women Seek More Political Participation As the Country Marks International Women’s Day(AMISOM)
EU Ambassador Unveils Model School In Kismayo (AMISOM/UNSOM)
Hydro Industries Brings Clean Water To Troubled Mogadishu (Wales Online)
In Somalia Al Shabaab Far from a Spent Force (The Atlantic Council)

Despite Graft Allegations Somali President Assures Army’s Payments (Hiiraan Online)
Mogadishu Mayor Inspects Police Checkpoints In Mogadishu (Mareeg Media)
Puntland Probes Iranian Boat Escape (Garowe Online)
Somalia Leader Calls For Collaboration To Defeat Terrorism (Xinhua)
HMAS Darwin Seizes Huge Weapons Haul From Somalia-bound Fishing Boat (WA Today)
Profile: Al-Shabab Journalist Hassan Hanafi (BBC News)