Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Mogadishu and surrounding areas are on lockdown after increase in al-Shabab attacks in lead-up to election. Somalia’s capital is on lockdown a day before the parliament meets to elect a new president, with ongoing security concerns and warnings of famine expected to top the agenda for the incoming administration. Roads in Mogadishu were closed, businesses […]

Mogadishu 6February 2017 – The Chairperson of the 17-member Presidential Election Committee Mr. Abdirahman Beileh says preparations for Somalia’s much-awaited presidential polls are complete and the election will take place as scheduled. “The President is elected by the public and so we are representatives of the public. We are listening to them, we have given […]

THE HAGUE, 2 February 2017. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, has today delivered its Judgment on the preliminary objections raised by Kenya in the case concerning Maritime Delimitation in the Indian Ocean (Somalia v. Kenya), in which it finds that it may proceed with the maritime […]

A structure at the KDF camp in Kulbiyow, Somalia, goes up in flames during an attack by al Shabaab terrorists, January 27, 2017. /COURTESY A structure at the KDF camp in Kulbiyow, Somalia, goes up in flames during an attack by al Shabaab terrorists, January 27, 2017. /COURTESY Al Shabaab militants have released photos of […]

Kismayo, January 31, 2017 – The third phase of training for 201 Jubbaland State Police recruits commenced yesterday in the port city of Kismayo. The three-month training is being conducted by the Police Component of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the Somali Police. The first and second phases of the training programme […]

  27 January 2017 – Briefing the Security Council on the situation in Somalia, the United Nations envoy for the country noted today that the recently concluded election was a “mirror” to Somalis, showing them the good and the bad regarding how power is exercised, relations between elders, clan power brokers, politicians, business, ordinary citizens, […]

Washington (CNN)With just a few quick strokes of the pen, President Donald Trump on Friday banned — temporarily, for now — more than 134 million people from entering the United States. Trump barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for at least the next 90 days by executive order, which a senior […]

Kenyan troops in Somalia were Friday engaged in a massive counter offensive against Al-Shabaab – on land and air – just hours after a deadly attack on their base by the Somalia-based terrorists. The attack, in which BBC says 50 Kenyan soldiers were killed, comes just days after the first anniversary of the El-Adde attack […]

Khadija Abdulkadir, Maryam Aboud, Ummulkhayr Abdulla and Halima Ali in court yesterday, they denied being members of Al shabaab. /MKAMBURI MWAWASI Four women accused of being al Shabaab members were granted Sh500,000 bond each on Thursday after being in custody for nearly two years. Ummulkhayr Sadri, Maryam Said, Khadija Abubakar and Halima Adan were released […]

25 January 2017 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) has condemned the coordinated suicide bombing attack earlier today at a hotel in Mogadishu for which Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility and which reportedly killed dozens of people. According to the United Nations, the attack, on the Dayah Hotel (known locally as the Dayax), reportedly […]