Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Waxaa maanta dawladda Soomaaliya magangalyo waydiistay Shiikh Atam oo muddo dheer dagaal hubaysan kula jirayDawlad Goboleedka Buuntland isaga oo kasoo duuli jiray buuraleeyda Galgala,Shiikh Atam warsaxaafadeed uu kaga hadlayey isdhiibkiisa wuxuu ku yiri: “Anigoo ah Sheikh Maxamed Siciid Maxamed (Atom), waxaan u hayaa shacabka Soomaaliyeed farriin muhiim ah. Waxaan in muddo ah u dulqaadanayey qaladka […]

minneapolis   Minneapolis family worries that son, 20, is headed to Syria Sadiyo Omar had no idea where her son had gone until the sobbing 20-year-old phoned her from Turkey on Saturday. “Why, why are you there?” she asked. Her son, Abdi Mohamed Nur, a graduate of Southwest High School in Minneapolis, gave no explanation. […]

President Barack Obama is set to announce the first American ambassador to Somalia since the civil war erupted more than 20 years ago, according to a US diplomat. “As a reflection both of our deepening relationship with the country and of our faith that better times are ahead, the president will propose the first US […]

Exclusive: U.N. experts wary of Somaliland plan for armed oil protection unit   Somaliland troops march past during a parade to mark the 22nd anniversary of Somaliland’s self-declared independence from the larger Somalia, in Hargeisa May 18, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Feisal Omar  The experts, who monitor sanctions violations, said in July that Western commercial oil exploration […]

  24 May 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special representative in Somalia, Nicholas Kay, as well as the Security Council, today condemned an attack by suicide bombers and gunmen on the Federal Parliament, in the capital Mogadishu, where legislators were in session. “There can be no justification for such attacks,” Mr. […]

Making a rare threat against the United States, a senior member of Somalia’s Islamic insurgent group that has carried out terrorist attacks abroad said Thursday that holy war will come to America and that Islam’s flag will one day fly over Washington. The al-Shabab fighter, who has a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, […]

  BANGKOK — Thailand’s military coup leaders suspended the nation’s constitution and ordered the country’s acting prime minister and cabinet to report to the army on Thursday, two days after the army chief imposed martial law. Thailand’s army chief, Gen. Prayuth Chan-Ocha, flanked by the heads of the armed forces, appeared on all major television […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan officials say Somali militants have killed 12 people, including three police reservists, in a border ambush. A spokesman for the militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack in northeast Kenya near its border with Somalia. David Kimaiyo, Kenya’s top police chief, said the attack began when bandits shot at four […]

The 32 migrants who survived their boat capsizing off Samos last week, an incident in which 22 people lost their lives and another seven have yet to be found, have arrived in Athens. The migrants, 24 Somalis, seven Syrians and one Eritrean, were transferred to the Greek capital on the passenger ferry European Express. The […]

Iman can brag to being more than just a pretty face. The former super model from Somalia is the founder and CEO of IMAN Cosmetics which she launched in 1994. She promotes the IMAN brand among women of color, and now sells skincare and cosmetics around the world. Ten years after she started the company, […]