Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

hide When Sahra Noor first visited People’s Center Health Services, she was a harried college freshman and the single mom of a toddler. She had arrived in the United States two years earlier after spending most of her teenage years in Kenyan refugee camps. She returned to the center last summer as the chief executive […]

Al Shabaab’s terrorism and not Kenyan people is the enemy of Kenya today. Imposing dictatorship on Kenyan people to fight terrorism will make people, like al Shabaab, the enemy of Kenya. Yet this is absolutely unacceptable. When dictatorship comes knocking, many people don’t care until they become its victims. However, because some of us have […]

December 19, 2014 Somali politicians and pundits have welcomed the appointment of Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke as the nation’s next prime minister, calling him a leader with the temperament and experience to move the country forward. Somalia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke (right) listens as President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announces his appointment […]

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has named a new prime minister, amid international pressure to end chronic political infighting. The president appointed Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke to the post Wednesday in a ceremony at the presidential palace in Mogadishu. Sharmarke, who must be approved by the Somali parliament, would be Mohamud’s third prime minister in […]

Life is steadily improving in Galgadud region’s El Bur since Somali and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops removed al-Shabaab’s blockade of the town two months ago. A truck passes a roadblock set up by residents protesting al-Shabaab in Tobanka Buundo in Lower Shabelle on March 6, 2014. Allied forces removed al-Shabaab’s blockade of […]

Syracuse Somali-Bantu community’s desire to be self-sufficient drives federal grant Haji Adan, executive director of the Somali Bantu Community Association of Onondaga County Inc., speaks to the Syracuse Media Group editorial board Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. The association has recently received an up to $450,000 grant from the federal government to provide refugee services. (Marie […]

A TEENAGER and her 20-year-old friend have become the first Australian women to “go it alone” to join terrorists in Syria and offer themselves as potential jihadi brides, intelligence agencies believe. The girls, Hodan, 18 and Hafsa, 20, who are believed to have links with the Somali community, flew out of Sydney in the past […]