Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Somali refugee Hodan set herself alight on Nauru on Monday just days after another refugee in Australian-run detention died of injuries sustained from self-immolating. A young refugee woman from Somalia has set herself alight at an Australian detention centre on Nauru, just days after a 23-year-old man, Omid, died of injuries sustained in a similar […]

A boat carrying more than 400 migrants , mostly Somalis (but there would also Ethiopians and Eritreans ) , capsized in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe’s southern shores . Fears for a new massacre at sea with hundreds of deaths . This was reported by the BBC Arabic that migrants ” were […]

At least eight people were killed Monday and early Tuesday in U.S. airstrikes targeting al-Shabab militants in southern Somalia. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said unmanned drones were used in the attacks. Witnesses and officials told VOA’s Somali service that five militants and three civilians were killed in the airstrikes, which hit the al-Shabab-controlled village […]

Barack Obama says the biggest mistake of his presidency was the lack of planning for the aftermath of the fall of late Libyan leader Mummar Gaddhafi, with the country spiraling into chaos and grappling with violent militants. Reflecting on his legacy in a Fox News interview aired Sunday, Obama said his “worst mistake” was “probably […]

ISIS claim Abdulrahman Shariff, 18, is missing ‘presumed dead’ in Syria His brother Khalif Shariff, 21, is believed to have been confirmed dead Their parents are understood to have been told the news by senior jihadis Friend says ‘they never showed signs of being extremists’ before fleeing  Khalif Shariff (pictured) and his brother Abdulrahman are […]

MOGADISHU- Suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen have shot and killed Turkish engineer working with Turkish aid agencies in Mogadishu on Friday, police and eyewitnesses confirmed. The engineer who was identified as Kamal was shot and dead by two assailants shortly after he left a local mosque where he performed the Friday Prayers around 1.00pm local time, said […]

Two Cord members of Parliament on Saturday differed over the failed Okoa Kenya campaign after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) ruled that the sponsors had failed to get the one million signatures necessary to force a referendum. While Ijara MP Ibrahim Abass (ODM) blamed the Cord secretariat for doing “a shoddy job” in […]

Mogadishu: Somalia security forces have killed 65 Shebab Islamic insurgents who attacked coastal towns in the semi-autonomous Puntland area in the country’s northeast, the regional army chief said Monday. “The fighting is almost over and the security forces are now pursuing the remnants of the militants” after five days of clashes, General Muhidin Ahmed Muse […]

The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers on Saturday killed 21 Al-Shabaab militants in a shootout in Lower Juba Region in Somalia and recovered weapons. Two KDF soldiers also died in the shootout on Saturday afternoon. The KDF also recovered 19 AK-47 rifles, three rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) and a pistol. The KDF spokesman Col David […]

GAROWE ONLINE| Fierce clashes have continued for second day in the northeastern State of Puntland, with government troops neutralizing militants trying to infiltrate by boats in onslaught involving artillery according to residents. Garowe Online examines who is fighting whom, and how the coverage confuses the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with Al Shabaab? —Puntland Late on Monday night, Puntland forces in technicals and […]