Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

MOGADISHU, Kasmaal– The Somali police commissioner Gen. Mohamed Sheikh Hassan Ismail died in the country’s capital Mogadishu after he was rushed to a hospital by his aides, officials confirmed Thursday. The President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud sent condolences to the people of Somalia and ordered emergency investigation. Speaking to the government’s Radio Mogadishu from […]

Death penalty for apostasy not justifiable in Islam: Somali scholar Interview by Bosire Boniface in Garissa Somali author Abdisaid Abdi Ismail has come under intense scrutiny after publishing a Somali language book titled “The Rule of Apostasy in Islam: Is it True?” in which he argues that there is no religious justification for killing people […]

People applaud after the Minneapolis City Council votes to become a sister city with Bosaso, Somalia, on Oct. 17, 2014. It’s the first sister city arrangement between the U.S. and Somalia. By Zachary Bielinski By Kevin Karner October 20, 2014 Minneapolis became sisters with a Somali counterpart on Friday — becoming the first city in […]

(Reuters) – Somalia’s president said on Friday that nobody close to him had been involved in the unauthorised diversion of government weapons to Islamist militants and denied that a man U.N investigators linked to the arms trade had advised him. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was responding to a report from the United Nations‘ Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring […]

A popular Somali band has been forced to seek asylum in the Netherlands after Kenya revoked its refugee status, its lead singer has told the BBC. Falis Abdi Mohamud said Kenyan officials seized her refugee card and that of four other band members when they flew out of Nairobi last month. The band – famous […]

(Reuters) – U.N. investigators have accused an advisor to Somalia’s president of involvement in the unauthorised diversion of Somali government weapons to Islamist militants with ties to al Qaeda, according to a confidential new report seen by Reuters. The accusation by the Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group, an eight-member panel of independent experts that oversees compliance with […]

Mogadishu — Al-Shabaab is ordering residents of Middle Jubba region to round up their livestock that survived the drought and turn them over to the militant group, Interim Jubba Administration (IJA) officials and residents told Sabahi. Al-Shabaab, which still controls most of Middle Jubba region, has started collecting camels, cattle and goats in the towns […]

   The al Shabaab is now desperate and losing more ground after the recent liberation of key towns by Somali troops backed by African Union peacekeepers, Ambassador Mohamed Ali Nur has said. Speaking in Mombasa on Saturday during a talk show on Radio Salaam, Nur said Amisom troops have defeated the group and taken over […]

Many Somalis have returned home in recent years as security has improved Continue reading the main story Residents of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, are feeling safer and more optimistic than they were a year ago, according to a new survey. The Heritage Institute of Policy Studies, which analysed data collected from more than 1,600 residents, […]

Metroland News ServiceMohamud Mohamed Mohamud of Hamilton has been identified online as an ISIS fighter who has been killed in Syria. The local Muslim community is calling on the federal government to help fund more programs to engage youth in the wake of the apparent death of a 20-year-old Hamilton man fighting with ISIS. Mohamud […]