September 21, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Kenya And Somalia Plan Free Visa Pact (Daily Nation)
  • 30% Representation Women In Parliament Will Be Guaranteed FEIT Says (Goobjoog News)
  • Prime Minister Sharmarke To Pitch For Vote In Bari Region Visit (Goobjoog News)
  • £100m Of UK Aid Budget To Be Spent Controlling Immigration From Africa (The Guardian)
  • Hawala Cash Likely To Finance Terror In Kenya And Somalia Say Rights Activists (The Star)
  • Racial Issues With Somalis Grow After Minn. Mall Attack (Associated Press)
  • Girls’ Basketball Bounces Back In Somalia (USAID)

September 21, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Theresa May: UK Will Send More Troops To Somalia To Fight Al-Shabaab (ITV News)
  • Hiiraan Governor Impeached For Diversion Of Aid (Goobjoog News)
  • Military Court In Puntland Sentence Large Number Of Al-Shabaab Fighters To Jail (Goobjoog News)
  • Jubbaland Authorities And UN Agree To Form Joint Committee On Dadaab Camp Returnees (UNSOM)
  • The Terrorism Risk Of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees: The Minnesota New York And New Jersey Terrorist Attacks (Cato Institute)
September 21, 2016 | Morning Headlines

September 20, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Electoral Security Committee Meets In Mogadishu (Jowhar.com)
  • ICJ DAY 2: Somalia To Counter Kenya’s Argument On Jurisdiction (Goobjoog News)
  • Ministry of Education  Signs Working Pact With Three Administrations (Goobjoog News)
  • UN Police Train Somali Police Force Officers On Gender-based Violence (UNSOM)
  • UN Says More Than Five Million Somalis Face Acute Food Shortages (Bloomberg)
  • Kenya: Deputy President Ruto Tells UN 100000 refugees processed for return to Somalia (Capital FM)
  • Allegations Of Abuse Corruption Cloud Election In Somalia (Foreign Policy)

September 20, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Kenya: World Court Has No Jurisdiction In Somalia Dispute (Associated Press)
  • Civil Society Activist Joins Race To Villa Somalia (Radio Dalsan)
  • Al-Shabaab Ambushes Ethiopian Military Convoy In Central Somalia (Garowe Online)
  • ISIS In Puntland Releases New Video Declaring Caliphate In East Africa (Garowe Online)
  • Jubaland Set To Launch Major Offensive On Al-Shabaab Bases (Goobjoog News)
  • Minnesota Mall Knifeman Was Student Says Father (BBC)
  • Somalis Denounce Attempted Terror Attack On Police Station (Daily Nation)
  • Security Tightened In Mandera Over Al-Shabaab Threat (Daily Nation)
  • Al-Shabaab Steps Up Attacks In Run Up To The Somalia Elections (African Arguments)
September 20, 2016 | Morning Headlines

19 September – Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Jowhar Meeting On The Verge Of Collapse (Shabelle News)
  • Price Of Fish In Mogadishu Markets Increases Due To Low Supply (Goobjoog News)
  • Former Mogadishu Mayor Dismisses Government Ban On Protests (Goobjoog News)
  • International Court To Hear Kenya-Somalia Border Dispute (BBC)
  • Al-Shabaab Claims Responsibility For Killing Of Somali General (Bloomberg)
  • Minnesota’s Somali Leaders Condemn Stabbing As Report Identifies Suspect (The Guardian)
  • Kenya Or Somalia: Who Owns The Sea And What Lies Beneath? (Deutsche Welle)

September 19, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Somali General 7 Bodyguards Killed In Car Bomb Attack In Mogadishu (Hiiraan Online)
  • Military Officer Killed In Mogadishu 2nd In A Day (Shabelle News)
  • Mogadishu Mayor Says No To Opposition Plans For Demonstrations (Radio Dalsan)
  • International Community Lauds Electoral Process In Somalia (Xinhua News)
  • UNHCR Denies Abuse Of Somali Refugees In Kenyan Camp (Xinhua News)
  • Kenya Somalia Term As misleading Reports By Human Rights Groups On Refugee Repatriation (The Star)
  • Kenya Somalia Spat Goes To Hague Court (The Standard)
September 19, 2016 | Morning Headlines

September 16, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Senior Al-Shabaab Commander Killed In Southern Somalia (Xinhua)
  • Somali Forces Arrest Several People In Bakool Region (Goobjoog News)
  • Jubaland Orders Al-Shabaab Wives Out (Goobjoog News)
  • President Hassan Sheikh Launches His Presidential Campaign In Mogadishu (Jowhar.com)
  • A New Airport For Qabri Dahar (Wardheer News)

September 16, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • State To Provide Security For Presidential Candidates (Goobjoog News)
  • President Opens State Formation Conference In Jowhar (Shabelle News)
  • SNA Forces Raid Al-Shabaab Base Near Hudur Town (Shabelle News)
  • Somaliland Clans Threaten To Withdraw From Electoral Process (Garowe Online)
  • Kenya Seeking To Close Somali Camp Denies Abuse Of Refugees (Voice of America)
  • 25 Khat Cargo Planes Head To Somalia After Flights Ban Lifted (Daily Nation)
  • Mother Seeks To Inspire With Film Of Photojournalist Son (Reuters)
September 16, 2016 | Morning Headlines

September 15, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

  • Somali President Arrives In Jowhar Town (Shabelle News)
  • FIEIT Meets Somali Diaspora In Nairobi
  • Baardhere Court Chief Survives Bomb Attack (Shabelle News)
  • Dadaab Camp Closure: Repatriation Of Somali Refugees ‘Fails To Meet International Standards’ (BBC)
  • Mandera Court Allows Police To Hold Terror Suspect For 14 More Days (Daily Nation)
  • Oil In Somalia: Renewed Interest In Somali Oil (Life Peace & Institute)

September 15, 2016 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

  • Museveni Spends Night At UPDF Base In Somalia (Daily Monitor)
  • Separate landmine blasts in Southern Somalia (Garowe Online)
  • Somaliland Denounces IGAD Summit Outcomes (Garowe Online)
  • Senior Al-Shabaab Commander Killed By Fellow Fighter (Goobjoog News)
  • Somalia Joins Africa-led Initiative To Protect Elephants (Xinhua)
  • Uhuru Secures Deal For KCB Entry Into Somalia After Visit (Business Daily)
  • Envoy Tells Significance Of Somalia’s Improving Peace To Ethiopia (Ethiopian MoFA)
  • Somali Flower Girls Who Received Uhuru Warm Hearts On Social Media (Nairobi News)
  • Let’s Not Wait Another Two Years To Act On The Refugee Crisis (IRIN)
September 15, 2016 | Morning Headlines