Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

.Ivory Coast’s rebel soldiers apologise to presiden .Witnesses: Soldiers open fire in Ivory Coast town .I Coast hit by fresh protests in wake of mutiny Bouak – Hundreds of renegade soldiers blocked access to Ivory Coast’s second-largest city on Saturday after firing guns into the air throughout the night, according to an AFP journalist at […]

Japan is reportedly considering adopting the land-based version of the Aegis missile defense system over THAAD, citing the N. Korean missile threat. The system could potentially be used with Tomahawk missiles, making it a threat to Russia and China. Tokyo has ordered a feasibility study into adopting the Aegis Ashore system, government sources told the […]

North Korea launched a ballistic missile Sunday morning from a site near its border with China, South Korea’s military said, in its first military provocation since Moon Jae-in won South Korean presidency last week. The missile flew some 700 kilometers and landed in East Sea. The flight distance suggests a success of the missile test. […]

 KASPERSKY Lab has recorded more than 45,000 attacks of ransomware in 74 countries around the world as of Friday, mostly in Russia. The attack, boiling down to a computer virus that makes users’ computers useless unless a payment is made to those who hacked their system, has prompt wide alarm around the globe. “WANNACRY” The multinational […]

A fast-moving wave of cyber attacks that swept the globe Friday targeted German rail operator Deutsche Bahn. The software attacks exploited a flaw exposed in documents leaked from the US National Security Agency and use a technique known as ransomware that locks users’ files unless they pay the attackers a designated sum in the virtual […]

possibility bilateral contact amid U.S. President Donald Trump having expressed his willingness to meet with the North’s leader. Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North America bureau chief of North Korea’s foreign ministry, told reporters at the Beijing Capital International Airport that her country “will hold dialogue under right conditions” with the U.S. administration. Director-general of […]

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 17 mummies in catacombs in Minya province, south of Cairo, the antiquities ministry announced on Saturday. “We found catacombs containing a number of mummies,” said Salah al-Kholi, a Cairo University professor of Egyptology who headed the mission that made the discovery in the Touna el-Gabal district of the province in central […]

When we leave the EU our support for Somalia’s future must remains as strong as it is today. For the people of Somalia, peace has been a long time coming. After more than 27 years of civil war, political instability and chronic hunger, there are finally reasons to be optimistic about the country’s future. But […]

Norway’s biggest trade union voted Friday in favour of a boycott against Israel, a decision immediately condemned by Israeli diplomats who judged it “immoral”. The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) went against a recommendation from its leadership and voted 197 to 117 in favour of an international economic, cultural and academic boycott against Israel because of […]

QUETTA: At least 26 people were killed and 40 others, including Senate Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, suffered injuries in a suicide attack on his convoy in the Mastung area, some 50km from here, on Friday. The convey was targeted on the Quetta-Karachi National Highway when Maulana Haideri had just left a seminary after […]