January 14, 2016 | Daily Monitoring Report

Key Headlines

Official: Several Militants Killed In Firefight Near Elbur Airport (Shabelle News)
National Consultative Forum Meeting Convenes In Kismayu (Radio Muqdisho)
Somalia Seeks Turkey’s Assistance In Rebuilding Police Force (Hiiraan Online)
Somalia Welcomes Appointment Of New US Envoy To Somalia (Wacaal Media)
Six Al-Shabaab Fighters Arrested In Security Swoop In S. Somalia (Xinhua)
Eight Al-Shabaab Suspects Arrested In Ongoing Security Operation In Mandera County (Daily Nation)
Witness Somalia’s Resilience After Decades Of War (Time)
Hadraawi: Celebrating The Great Somali Poet (The Star Kenya)

Crucial Kismayo Conference To Kick Off Today (Garowe Online)
EU Condemns Prisoner Executions Carried Out By Somalia And Somaliland (Goobjoog)
Al-Shabaab Militants Invited To Play In Somalia’s Premier League (Hiiraan Online)
Somali Police Commissioner Holds Talks With Turkish Counterpart (Wacaal Media)
Kenya Steps Up Security Along Troubled Border With Somalia ( Xinhua)
UN Seeks Global Support As 4.9 Million Somali People Need Humanitarian Aid( Xinhua)
Federal And Regional Authorities Agree On A Somali Media Development Strategy (UNSOM)
Somalia: Change Coming? (Hiiraan Online)

Somalia’s New Controversial Media Law Takes Effect (Hiiraan Online)
Somali President Calls For Speed Up Of Efforts to Form Hiiraan And Middle Shabelle Regions State(Shabelle News)
Former Prime Minister Of Somalia Expresses Concern Over Return To 4.5 Formula (Wacaal Media)
Man Arrested For Cannibalism In Somaliland (Hiiraan Online)
Seven Refugees Fleeing Somalia ‘Thrown Overboard’ Off Coast Of Italy (The Independent)
Calgary Imam Abdi Hersy Stripped Of Refugee Status Awaits Appeal Decision ( CBC News)
Somalia’s 13-Year-Old Inventor Finds Fame (BBC)

President Opens Jowhar Conference Despite Hiiraan Elders’ Boycott (Hiiraan Online)
Seven Soldiers Arrested Over Troops Infighting (Shabelle News)
US Appoints New Ambassador To Somalia (Somali Current)
Suspected Bomb Recovered In Eastleigh (Shabelle News)
Somalis Loot Compound Of Iranian Aid Agency (News24)
ISIS Tries To Expand In Africa Via Call For Al-Shabaab Fighters To Join Them In Somalia (Alalam News Network)
Minneapolis Restaurant Sends Welcome Message to All Immigrants (5 Eyewitness News)
How Al-Qaeda And Islamic State Are Competing For The Loyalty Of Al-Shabaab In Somalia (The Telegraph)

Somaliland Executes Four Soldiers Convicted Of Murders (Hiiraan Online)
Hiiraan Elders Boycott Jowhar Conference Over ‘Broken’ Promises (Hiiraan Online)
Somali Legendary Poet Passes Away Aged 80 (Goobjoog News)
Media Development Strategy Meeting Opened In Mogadishu (Shabelle News)
Maryland Man Indicted For Support Of Al Shabaab (The Washington Times)
David Bowie Death: Supermodel Wife Iman Reveals Her Favourite Records Were Suffragette City and Heroes (International Business Times)
Students Stay Away As Classes Resume At Kenya’s Garissa University (The Christian Science Monitor)
Once A Refugee In Kenya And Now A Policewoman In The US: The Story Of Zahra (Somali Current)

Cholera Kills 10 Somalis In World’s Largest Refugee Camp – UN (Agence France Presse)
Forum On Somalia 2016 Fails To Kick Off (Somali Current)
Somaliland Leader Bashes Federal Government On Saudi-Iran Rift (Garowe Online)
Roadside Bomb Kills 2 Outside Mogadishu (Shabelle News)
Puntland’s European Diaspora Welcomes Completion Of Key Development Projects (Wacaal Media)
British War Heroes Jailed For Protecting Ships From Somali Pirates (Daily Star)
Woman Fighting To Get Security Clearance Reinstated After Losing Airline Job (The Huffington Post)
The End Of A Storybook Romance – Somalia-born Iman And David Bowie (Mail & Guardian)

UK Says ISIL Is Threat To Somalia (Somali Current)
Hiiraan Elders Say They Will Participate At Jowhar Conference (Shabelle News)
Somalia’s Intel Agency Celebrates 46th Anniversary (Hiiraan Online)
Somali President Finally Explains Why They Cut Diplomatic Ties With Iran (Somali Current)
Eastleigh Assistant Chief Arrested For Posing As Policeman Extortion (The Star Kenya)
Duale Says Sossion’s Call To Non-local Teachers To Leave NE Over Attacks Was Betrayal (Daily Nation)
Young Innovator From Somalia’s Puntland Builds Vehicles Of Hope (Global Voices)
My Positive Experience In Mogadishu (Geeska Africa)

Somali President Signs Controversial Media Bill (Hiiraan Online)
The National Consultative Meeting On 2016 Election Set To Open In Kismayo (Shabelle News)
Puntland President Departs For NCF Amid Grievances (Garowe Online)
Somali Journalist Beaten Wounded In Northern Somalia (Hiiraan Online)
122 Migrants Die In Somalia Boat Tragedy (9News)
At Least 1 Killed In Mogadishu Car Bomb Attack (Xinhua News)
UAE Ambassador Meets Somalia’s Minister of Justice (WAM Emirates News Agency)
A Second Chance At Life For Ex-Al Shabaab Female Fighters (UNSOM)

The Official Opening Of Bander Qasim International Airport Gets Underway In Bosaso (Horseed Media)
ISWA Forces Battle Al-Shabaab In Gof-gaduud Town Near Baidoa (Wacaal Media)
Voter Registration And Elections Will Not Take Place In The Eastern Regions Says Ali Khalif (Somaliland Informer)
Somali Restaurant Owner To Attend President’s State Of The Union Address Next Week (Star Tribune)
Somalia Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Iran Citing Threat To Security (Bloomberg News)
Ethnic Somalis Are Dying In Kenya And Some Say The Government Is To Blame (Washington Post)
Kenya Has Become A Perilous Place To Be A Teacher With The Threat Of Al-Shabaab Leaving Young People In Crisis (The Independant)

Somalia Cuts Ties With Iran In Latest Saudi-Led Diplomatic War (Hiiraan Online)
Somali Refugees In Germany Take To The Streets After Government Announced Plans To Strip Them Of Refugee Privileges (Wacaal Media)
Somali Parliament Speaker Arrives In Dhusamareb For Peace Talks (Shabelle News)
Somaliland ‘Confident’ Of Independence Recognition (Hiiraan Online)
Kenyan Teacher Jailed For Enlisting Pupils Into Al-Shabaab (Reuters)
Al-Shabaab Attack Kills Civilian In Mogadishu (The Gulf Today)
Tight Security As Jazeera Hotel Resumes Business In Somalia (Xinhua News)
Kenyan Bus Attack Victim: ‘Let Us Live Together Peacefully’ (Voice of America)
Honouring Mandera Bus Heroes Is Right Thing To Do In The Fight Against Terrorism (Daily Nation)