July 9, 2015 | Morning Headlines

Key Headlines

Kenyan Foreign Minister Receives New Somalia Ambassador(Garowe Online)
State Making Process For Hiiraan And Middle Shabelle Regions Set To Kick Off in Beletweyne. (Wacaal Media)
Somalia To Submit Maritime Dispute Case with Kenya to International Court of Justice Next week (Somali Current)
Banadir High Rank Official Survives Murder Attempts (Goobjoog News)
Puntland President Meets New Cabinet Ministers (Garowe Online)
500 Killed In Recent Terror Attacks ( Daily Nation)
Kenyan General Is The New AMISOM Force Commander (Gazette Weekly)
Is AMISOM Willing To Unify And Empower Somali National Army? ( Sahan Journal)
Facing Snakes Scorpions – And Fear Of Attack – On Kenya’s Walk of Hope (The Guardian)

National Security Committee Meets In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
The President Welcomes Successful Election Of The Galmudug Interim Administration (Radio Dalsan)
AMISOM Police Engage In Patrols With Somali Police Force (Jowhar News)
Former District Commissioner Gunned Down In Afgoye (Goobjoog News)
Somaliland Struck Unity Deal With Somali Government Puntland: Wikileaks (Garowe Online)
Somaliland Dwarfs Announce Association To Fight Stereotypes (Radio Dalsan)
Militants Attack Buses In Kenyan Coastal Region (Times Live/AFP)
Car Bomb Kills Two And Leaves Four Injured In Mogadishu (Xinhua)
Prosecutors: Plans For Terror Defendants’ Release ‘Untested (ABC News/AP)
Police Pursue Gunmen Behind Murder Of 14 In Kenya’s Border Town (China.org)
Human Rights In Somalia Still Suffer (VoA)
GOLIS: Transforming Somalia Through Telecommunication (RBC Radio)

Two Die In Mogadishu Blast (Wacaal Media)
Indian Minister Of State For External Affairs Arrives In Mogadishu (Goobjoog News)
Somali Government Appoints New Spokesperson (Somali Current)
Two Die In Mogadishu Blast (Wacaal Media)
Jubaland President Heading To Puntland (Garowe Online)
Somali President And Muslim Ambassadors Discuss Muslim World Challenges In Iftar (Dalsan Radio)
Women And Power: Gloria Mafigiri On Helping The Women Of Somalia (NTV Uganda)
Al Shabaab Planned To Kill 150 In Mandera Attack – Nkaissery (The Star Kenya)
Why Somalia Is The Burundi President’s Trump Card (Daily Maverick)
Our New BFF: Turkey and Somalia’s Strengthening Relationship (themandeeq.com)

Grenade Attack Kills Four In Baidoa (Hiiraan Online)
Federal Parliament Endorses Controversial Commissions (Garowe Online)
Federal Government Say Puntland Complains About Galmudug Would Be Settled Through Constitutional Means (Goobjoog News)
Puntland Moves To Reduce Maternal Deaths (Garowe Online)
Kenya Expresses Concern Over Sophisticated Weapons Under Al-Shabaab’s Possession (Wacaal Media)
Houthi Shelling Kills Six Somali Refugees In Yemen (Radio Dalsan)
Al-Shabaab Kills More Than A Dozen In Kenya Attack Weeks Before Obama Visit (The Guardian)
Anti-Piracy Mission Off Somalia To Be Extended (NHK World News)
For Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir A Wish That FIBA Would Catch Up To FIFA (USA Today)

Somalia’s Parliament Approves Independent Electoral And Local Boundaries Commission (Horseed Media)
Interim Jubba Administration Forces Launch Security Sweep In Kismayo (Goobjoog News)
Puntland Police Detain 82 Ethiopian Immigrants (Horseed Media)
Galmudug Head Of State Gives Maiden Speech Calls On MPs To Focus On Tough Task Ahead (Wacaal Media)
Puntland President Hurdle To Dialogue-Former Commander (Garowe Online)
AMISOM Announces New Offensive Against Al-Shabaab (Radio Dalsan)
Three Al-Shabaab Militants Killed In Somalia (The New Indian Express)
AMISOM Force Commander Visits Burundi Troops In Jereredo (Coast Week)
Shuja Family Gather At Heidelberg West Home For Ramadan Feast (Herald Sun)
UK Khat Ban – For The People By The People One Year On (Hiiraan Online)

Uneasy Calm Returns In Mahadaay And Jalalaqsi After Simultaneous Al-Shabaab Attacks (Wacaal Media)
Puntland President “General Muhyadin Should Surrender And Disarm” (Goobjoog News)
Somalis Fleeing Yemen Arrive In Bossaso (Radio Ergo)
The Somali Federal Government Forces Left Janale District Fear Of Terror (Sahal News)
Interior Ministry Says Italian Company Would Train Somali Youth (Goobjoog News)
Confirmed: Secret U.S. Bases In Somalia U.S. Boots On The Ground (The New American)
Parents’ Agony As Two Students Join Al -Shabaab (Standard Digital)
The President Of Britain’s Largest Muslim Student Group Has Died In A Drowning Incident (Buzzfeed)
The Humanity Never Stops (RBC Radio)

Al Shabaab Advances In Several Towns In Southern Somalia (Horseed Media)
New Galmudug Leader Says He Wants Talks With Puntland (Garowe Online)
Puntland Refuses To Recognize Galmudug State In Its Entirety (Wacaal Media)
Somali Government Calls On Ahlu Sunna Movement To End Disagreement Through Talks (Dalsan Radio)
Car Bomb Hits Senior Somali Security Officer In Mogadishu (RBC Radio)
AU Forces Deny Retreat From Al-Shabaab In Somalia (Xinhua)
Somalia Hires First Six Female Prosecutors (VoA)
Puntland Should Welcome Galmudug (RBC Radio)

Somalia Is Home To Two Secret US Drone Bases – Report (RT)
UN Hails China’s Humanitarian Role In Somalia (Somali Current)
Jubbaland Deploys Troops In Buula-Gaduud Ahead Of Major Offensive On Al-Shabaab (Wacaal Media)
Guri-El District Commissioner Blames Ahlu-Sunna For Disrupting The Future Of Central Regions(Goobjoog News)
EU Training Mission To Provide Somali Army Only With Basic Equipment (Shabelle News)
Ship With Yemen Refugees Docks At The Port City Of Bosaaso (Radio Bar-Kulan)
Four Women Charged Over Al-Shabaab Links (The Star)
Counterfeit Medicine Endangering Somali Lives (Al Jazeera)
UN Official: Donor Fatigue Insecurity Threaten Somalia’s Progress (VOA)
No Visa – No Entry As Kenya Launches New Rules (Global Travel Industry News)
Call To Tell A Different Story About Somalia (BBC)
Somali Economy Would Crumble Without Remittances (Hiiraan Online)
Somalia Rising And The Single Story Of Progress (themandeeq.com)

A Somali Soldier Shot Dead In Mogadishu His Gun Seized By Unknown Assassins (Wacaal Media)
Lack Of Somali Public Service Salaries Makes Life Difficult For All (Hiiraan Online)
Somaliland Detains Federal Government MP (Dalsan Radio)
Galmudug State Presidential Candidates Make Campaign Speeches (Goobjoog News)
Allied Forces Pull Out Despite Lingering Fears (Garowe Online)
Somalia Reached ‘Tipping Point’ Can Secure Peace U.N. Officials Says (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Eden Prairie Residents Represent Somalia At Model UN Conference (Sun Current)
Remaking Somalia (Hiiraan Online)

Somalia Petroleum Minister “Kenya Cannot Do Oil Exploration Inside Our Maritime Borders” (Goobjoog News)
Puntland President Makes First Public Comments On Adado conference (Garowe Online)
Somaliland: President To Visit Saudi Arabia (Somaliland Sun)
Mogadishu Mayor Receives Presidential Accolade (Goobjoog news)
Queen Elizabeth Awards Abdikadir From Garissa As Somalis Celebrate His Achievement (Somali Current)
Somalia Grenade Attack Injures Two soldiers (Radio Danaan)
Somalia Debates On Banning Burqas (CCTV)
How I was De-radicalised (BBC)
Somalia: Teenage University Student Gang Raped (Sudan Tribune)
Al-Shabaab Attacks Expose AMISOM Weaknesses (VoA)
Letter From A Concerned Norwegian To Somali Government Globetrotters (Sahan Journal)