October 31, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report
Somali Police In Southwest State To Provide Security For Candidates In Somalia Polls
31 October – Source: Goobjoog News – 195 Words
The Somali Police Force in Southwest state have vowed to provide security for all parliamentary candidates in the upcoming poll throughout the campaign period. This comes after recent media reports sayings Al-Shabaab fighters are planning to disrupt election.
Mohamed Issack, Southwest Police Commissioner has assured that all candidates will be protected. “I can assure [candidates] from the point of the police and the security agencies that we are on the ground and we are set to ensure that there is a peaceful election,” said Isack.
Isack urged the public to work with the police to deter Al-Shabaab fighters from disrupting the country’s upcoming elections. Somali leaders have been meeting with the the police commissioner and other key officers who will be involved in the polls. Somalia has formed a security taskforce to help secure the electoral process slated for this year.
Key Headlines
- Somali Police In Southwest State To Provide Security For Candidates In Somalia Polls (Goobjoog News)
- Newly Appointed Hiiraan Governor Promises Salaries For Soldiers (Hiiraan Online)
- Two Killed In Mortar Shell Attack In Southern Somalia (Goobjoog News)
- Police Detain Kenya-bound Ship From Kismayo Port (The Standard)
- Police Call Attack On Somali Man A Hate Crime (The San Diego Union Tribune)
- Somali Americans: Searching For Identity Finding ISIS (CBS News)
NATIONAL MEDIA
Newly Appointed Hiiraan Governor Promises Salaries For Soldiers
31 October – Source: Hiiraan Online – 117 Words
The newly appointed Governor of Hiiraan, Ali Jeyte Osman has promised that soldiers in the region will receive their monthly dues, the governor said while on a visit to regional police and prison headquarters in the region.
He said the administration will work hard in order to change the security situation of the region for the better. “I hereby promise that the soldiers will receive their monthly salaries. There is a shortage of funds but we will ensure that the forces receive their payment,” said the governor.
The governor was accompanied by members of the regional security committee during the visit. The committee has imposed a series of measures aimed at maintaining law and order in the entire Hiiraan region.
Two Killed In Mortar Shell Attack In Southern Somalia
31 October – Source: Goobjoog News – 179 Words
Two civilians have been killed in Southern Somalia on Sunday night when a volley of mortar shells landed in a residential house in Hudur town, witnesses said. The two victims were from the same family. A girl and her uncle were killed at once while the father of the family sustained injuries.
“A girl and a man from same family were killed and several others were wounded including the father of the girl” said an eyewitness in Hudur. The witness also said that several rounds of mortar shells landed in different parts of the town.
“Mortar rounds landed inside the town, so far we heard that the shells killed two people and injured four others,” the witness added. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, however it has hallmarks of similar mortar attacks frequently carried out in the city by Al-Shabaab.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Police Detain Kenya-bound Ship From Kismayo Port
31 October – Source: The Standard – 444 Words
Police have detained a Mombasa-bound ship that sailed from the Somalia port of Kismayo. They also detained Kenyan and Tanzanian crew of the Kenyan-registered vessel that had sailed into Kilifi’s port. Police say the Tanzanians are deemed to have entered Kenya illegally aboard the ship.
Officials have divulged little information about the full details of MV Nassim, which was said to have diverted to Kilifi en route to Mombasa after running out of fuel in the high seas off the Kilifi coast. It is not clear when the vessel was detained but The Standard has established its crew has already been charged with various crimes; and that the vessel has not been allowed to leave the small port. Reports indicate the vessel was set to sail to Mombasa old port late last week.
Crew members aboard the ship claimed they were forced to sail to Kilifi port after their vessel ran out of fuel. Kilifi police boss Alexander Makau confirmed the seizure of the ship and said five crew members had already been taken to court with customs related cases. The suspects were charged with various offences including being in possession of uncustomed goods and sailing a defective vessel.
Police Call Attack On Somali Man A Hate Crime
31 October – Source: The San Diego Union Tribune – 185 Words
Three men harassed and then beat a Somali man in the community of Redwood Village Sunday afternoon, and police are investigating the attack as a hate crime, San Diego police said. The men were inside Zappy Pizza, a restaurant on University Avenue, when a group of Somali men and women walked in about 3:40 p.m.
The men, who were white and in their 30s, started making degrading comments to the group based on their race and religion, San Diego police Officer Dino Delimitros said. A fight broke out, and one of the men, armed with brass knuckles, punched one of the Somali men. Another assailant then hit the same Somali man over the head with a chair while he was on the ground, Delimitros said.
The victim, in his late teens or early 20s, suffered cuts and bruises to his head. He refused medical treatment, police said. Officers found the three suspects soon after the fight. Two were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and the other on suspicion of battery. All face a hate crime charge.
OPINION, ANALYSIS, AND CULTURE
“When young Muslims feel disenfranchised, they seek alternate worldviews and in doing so, they give up the American dream.”
Somali Americans: Searching For Identity, Finding ISIS
31 October – Source: CBS News – 633 Words
Abdirizak Warsame may have an exotic name, but by all accounts, he was an American teenager. He lived with his mom in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, where he played basketball and wrote poetry in high school. How, then, did he become a leader of an ISIS cell?
On 60 Minutes this week, Scott Pelley talks with Warsame, who is awaiting sentencing and faces up to 15 years in prison. In reporting how young Americans like Warsame have joined, or tried to join terrorists overseas, Pelley and his team found a recurring theme in Minnesota: a generation of youth who are confused about where they belong. They are, as Pelley explains, “too foreign for many Americans, and too American for their parents.”
In Cedar-Riverside, where 20,000 refugees from Somalia began to settle in the 1990s, Warsame grew up in two worlds: a first-generation American caught between his Somali heritage and daily life in Minneapolis.
“Growing up in Minnesota, it’s different than most people, because you have all these different identities,” he tells Pelley in the clip above. “You know, you’re a Somali. You’re Muslim. You’re America. And so it’s kind of confusing for some youth growing up in that kind of environment.”
Because Warsame moved to the United States as an infant, his experience in America was very different from his parents’, who came to this country to flee a civil war. “I really didn’t feel fortunate,” Warsame says, “because I never knew what it was like to not have school. I never knew what it was like to, you know, be exiled out of your own country and war everywhere. I didn’t know what feeling was like. So I feel like I grew up like any other kid in America.”
TOP TWEETS
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IMAGE OF THE DAY
Somali Air Force training in Turkey.
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