Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

The Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay) is helping ease the impact of a severe drought in parts of Somalia by distributing food aid and hot meals. “We provide 3,195 hot meals daily from our soup kitchen in Mogadishu which are distributed to 20 different locations in the city,” Rusen Cetinkaya, head of the Turkish Red Crescent […]

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday begins a three-nation tour of western African states in the first trip to Africa of his new term as he seeks to reboot France’s post-colonial relationship with the continent. French President Emmanuel Macron awaiting the arrival of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July […]

For Immediate Release Sunday, July 24, 2022 The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $476 million in critical humanitarian and development assistance to the people of Somalia as a historically unprecedented drought pushes more than 7 million people to the edge of starvation. With this announcement, the […]

It’s been nearly a month since U.S.-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, had their long-awaited debut in Ukraine, but their combat record is already extensive. Using all the heavy and long-range weaponry available to it, including HIMARS, Ukraine began a campaign that has destroyed dozens of significant fuel and munition depots in occupied parts […]

Turkey’s Defense Ministry said coordination efforts continue for the first vessel loaded with grain to depart from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports as part of a recently signed deal. Firefighters work to put out a fire in a sea port in Odessa, southern Ukraine in this handout photo released by Odessa City Hall Press Office on […]

In a devastated village near Ukraine’s southern front line, the thud of incoming Russian artillery is a constant reminder of the hard battle ahead for Kyiv’s troops in a planned major counter-offensive. Signs of destruction are all around in the village, which was only liberated from Russian occupation after intense fighting. A Ukrainian serviceman Petro, […]

MOSCOW, July 24. /TASS/. The Russian Aerospace Forces struck weapons and ammunition depots of Ukraine’s 28th brigade and the 123rd territorial defense brigade in Nikolayev, eliminating more than 50 people, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov reported on Sunday. “In the city of Nikolayev, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out strikes on […]

Mogadishu has rekindled its decades-old desire to join the East African Community and Arusha has not completely slammed the door on Somalia’s face. President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania (left) speaking in Arusha on Fridat at the commissioning of the Arusha Bypass. The event was on the sidelines of the EAC Summit. In attendance was President […]

Ukraine accuses Russian of attacking Odesa Port – one day after landmark grain deal Russian missiles hit a key Ukrainian port on Saturday, just one day after Moscow and Kyiv signed a breakthrough deal to unblock grain exports, according to a local MP.  A woman holds a riffle as she attends a combat medic course […]

Turkey is determined to continue to push for a diplomatic solution in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the war wages on,President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday. Locals stand in front of a damaged school after a missile strike hit the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, July 21, 2022. (EPA Photo) Speaking at […]