January 13, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

  • Puntland court sentences 3 alleged traitors to life in prison (Garowe Online)
  • Anti-deforestation campaign set to kick off in Talex (Radio Bar-Kulan)
  • US travel advisory urges citizens to avoid port of Mogadishu (Radio Dalsan)
  • Somali president welcomes new cabinet (Radio Bar-Kulan/Radio Goobjoog)
  • Puntland police arrest terror suspects in Bossaso security sweep (Radio Garowe)
  • Somali diaspora gather in Rwanda for policy development (AMISOM News)
  • Timeline: recent attacks on Somali media (BBC)
  • Learning exchanges strengthen local administrations (UNDP)
  • Somalia’s rural literacy campaign (BBC)
January 13, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

January 13, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Newly appointed minister for agriculture denies rumors that he resigned (Radio Goobjoog/Mareeg Media)
  • 600 university students graduate in Mogadishu (Al Shahid/Radio Bar-Kulan)
  • Puntland and Ethiopia lay foundation for a new customs centre on the border (Radio Goobjoog)
  • Mogadishu and Garowe residents welcome new government (Radio Bar-Kulan)
  • Former Somali lawmaker: We are astonished by the prime minister’s approach to appointing the cabinet(Radio Goobjoog)
  • Somalis respond to Paris attacks denounce violence (Sabahi Online)
  • Somalia gradually but surely is coming out of chaos instability (Walta Info)
  • ION announces 2D regional seismic survey offshore Puntland (World Oil News Agency)
  • Minnesota Somali Leaders Attending Terrorism Summit (CBC)
January 13, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

January 13, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

  • AU envoy to Somalia: Rwanda’s past challenges can be experience for Somalia (Radio Goobjoog)
  • Two dead bodies found in Kismayo (Radio Bar-Kulan)
  • Burundi’s Defence Forces Chief Visited in Mogadishu (Radio Mustaqbal)
  • Measles claims 10 in besieged Burdubo (Radio Ergo)
  • Hiran region administration welcomes new government (Radio Bar-Kulan)
  • New Somalia PM retains majority of his predecessor’s cabinet ministers (Daily Nation/AFP)
  • Fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia: Lessons learned from the contact group (EU Bulletin)
  • Somalia prime minister keeps finance minister in cabinet change (Bloomberg News)
January 13, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

January 12, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Somali PM names new cabinet (Hiiraan Online)
  • Increase in the prices of food in Bakol markets worsens the dire situation in the region (Radio Goobjoog)
  • Somali Diaspora conference opens in Kigali (Radio Goobjoog)
  • Al Shabaab claims credit for Bossaso grenade attack (Garowe Online)
  • Kenya Djibouti foreign ministers praise Mogadishu security (Somali Current)
  • Juba administration forces arrests suspects after landmine attack (Alshahid)
  • 100 Somali MPs warn President against having his close aides in the cabinet (Dalsan Radio)
  • Mourning in Somalia as former Ocean Stars player dies (Mareeg Media)
  • Somalia hosts IGAD meeting after 30 years (Daily Nation)
  • Amina visits KDF soldiers in Somalia (The Star)
  • IGAD champions integration of Somali forces (African Press Agency/Star Africa)
  • Calgary’s Somali community gathers to discuss troubling increase in violence (CTV)
January 12, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

January 12, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

  • Mohamed Affey: We are in no doubt that 2016 elections will take place (Radio Goobjoog/Radio Muqdisho)
  • Somaliland main electricity company privatized (Radio Bar-Kulan)
  • Gunmen attack Bossaso central police station (Radio RBC)
  • Somali American Jihadist appears in released Al-Shabaab footage (Somali Current)
  • Djibouti to increase peacekeeping force (Garowe Online)
  • Somali PM meets UK ambassador (Radio Bar-Kulan)
  • Army court ignores commander’s plea (Daily Monitor)
  • Somali refugees in Kenyan camps queue up to return home (Sabahi Online)
  • East Africa ministers meet in Somalia for peace push (AFP/Yahoo News)
  • Blast hits troop convoy in Somalia’s Kismayu (Reuters)
  • More Minnesota Somalis go back to a slowly rebuilding Somalia (Star Tribune)
January 12, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

January 9, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • El-Garas administration denies the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from parts of Galgaduud region (Radio Goobjoog)
  • Somaliland: Defense Minister rejects Puntland president’s statement on Al-Shabaab entry into Somaliland (Somaliland Sun)
  • Somali group wants $4.35 million in state money to fight international terrorist recruitment (Radio Goobjoog)
  • Al-Shabaab burns food aid vehicles in Bay region (Sabahi Online)
  • Kiyonga urges Somali soldiers compensation (The Observer)
  • Somalia’s Shabaab praises ‘heroic’ Charlie Hebdo massacre (Deccan Chronicle/African/APF)
  • Canadian appears in terror group’s propaganda video two years after being killed in Somalia (National Post)
  • When football was outlawed (BBC Sports Hour)
January 9, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

January 9, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

  • AU envoys declares that Al-shabab lost 80% of the areas under their control (Radio Goobjoog)
  • Somalia prepares to host IGAD foreign ministers meeting in Mogadishu (Somali Current)
  • Two killed in Mogadishu landmine explosion (Radio Bar-Kulan)
  • Mogadishu traders demand services for taxes (Radio Ergo)
  • Minister Darwish inaugurates new government offices (Jubbalandi Media)
  • Kiyonga tells Somalia to build own army (Daily Monitor)
  • Qatar charity hosts festival for Somali orphans (Peninsula Qatar)
  • AMISOM re-evaluates priorities at Kampala meeting (AMISOM News)
  • Twin cities muslims denounce Paris terror attack (FOX News DC)
  • Somalia’s Shabaab claims to execute 7 ‘agents’- UPDATE (World Bulletin)
January 9, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

January 8, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Vehicles ferrying food aid were set ablaze (Radio Danan)
  • Ethiopian troops withdrew from parts of Galgadud region (Radio Goobjoog)
  • New Turkish consul General Ramis Sen visits Somali community in Minnesota (Global Somali Diaspora/Hiiraan Online)
  • Somali forces close parts of Maka Al-Mukarama road (Radio Goobjoog)
  • Pests attack farms in Bay and Bakool (Radio Danan)
  • Displaced farmers trained to resume production (Radio Ergo)
  • AU Commissioner of Peace and Security visits Somalia (AMISOM)
  • Al-Shabaab executes 4 in Gedo accused of spying (Sabahi Online)
  • Roundup: Somalia peace process needs paradigm shift to address realities: experts (Xinhua News)
  • AU calls for more humanitarian aid to Somalia (Press TV)
January 8, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

January 8, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

Key Headlines

  • Somali government warns illegal companies operating in Somalia (Horseed Media)
  • Somali president meets with AU Commissioner for Peace & Security (Mareeg Media)
  • Body of slain Somali engineer arrives in Mogadishu (Radio Bar-Kulan)
  • Fire guts 30 tents in an IDP camp (Radio Goobjoog)
  • IMB concerned over decision to compensate pirates (Horseed Media)
  • Somalia: Uganda wants compensation for lost lives (New Vision)
  • African Union says military still weakening Somalia’s Al-Shabaab (Reuters)
  • Somali militants execute alleged U.S. intelligence agency spy (Bloomberg News)
January 8, 2015 | Morning Headlines.

January 7, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.

Key Headlines

  • Hundreds of families flee their homes in Mudug due to dire shortages of food and water (Radio Goobjoog)
  • Mobile library on the road in Garowe (Radio Ergo)
  • Political alliances emerge (Dalsan Radio)
  • U.S Senator Al Franken appoints his first Somali staffer (Somali Current)
  • Britain prepares to send security advisors (Geeska Afrika)
  • Somalia’s Shabaab militants ‘execute informers’ (Capital FM)
  • Somalia forms counter-terrorism police unit (Sabahi Online)
  • Suspected Islamist car bombing badly injures Somali lecturer (Reuters)
  • Average Mohamed counters terror message with cartoon videos (Washington Post)
January 7, 2015 | Daily Monitoring Report.