Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

MOGADISHU, 14 JANUARY 2017 – At least 100 soldiers from the Somali National Army have graduated Saturday from an infantry course on combat skills, at General Dhegabadan Training (Jazeera) Camp, in Mogadishu. Trained by the European Union Training Mission (EUTM) in Somalia, the troops learnt combat engineering, light infantry and the use Information Communication Technologies. […]

Mahad Adib Mahamud has lived in Norway for 17 years. But now UDI taken from him citizenship after anonymous tip that he cheated when he came to the country. – I’m from Brumunddal! But suddenly, overnight, I have become a foreigner. A stateless man. Mahad came alone to Norway when he was 14 years old, […]

Mogadishu, 13 January 2017 – Hon. Abdiweli Sheikh Ibrahim Muudeey made a comeback to parliament as First Deputy Speaker of the House of the People, in Speaker in hotly contested elections held today, in Mogadishu. Hon. Muudeey won his seat with 164 votes, after a third round of voting. His main challenger, Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir, […]

Mogadishu, 11 January 2016 – The incumbent Speaker of Somalia’s House of the People, Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, retained his seat with a comfortable majority in voting held at the capital’s parliament building today. Jawari polled 141 votes to retain his seat, winning against three other contenders, among them, Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig, his closest challenger […]

AA File Photo 19 Daesh terrorists have been killed, 340 Daesh positions have been hit by the Turkish military as part of Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria’s al-Bab, the military said on Tuesday. A total of 340 terrorist targets have been shelled, destroying shelters, defense positions and command centers, as well as vehicles, the […]

  Mogadishu 9 January 2017 – Upper House elections for Somaliland and northern regions commenced today in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Six seats out of eleven, allocated for Somaliland and the northern regions were filled in a daylong exercise presided over by the Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (FIEIT). Five more seats will be filled […]

Four security guards working for the United Nations have been wounded after a car bomb explosion near their compound in Mogadishu, Somali officials said. All the victims are Somalis. One of them, the chief of the local security guards, suffered severe injuries, officials said. Reuters news agency reports that the militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility […]

Mogadishu has seen frequent bomb attacks at hotels and military checkpoints [Abdirizak Mohamud Tuuryare/Al Jazeera] Suicide bombers attacked the main peacekeeping base in Somalia’s capital, killing at least three Somali security officers. Captain Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press news agency on Monday one blast took place as security forces were searching cars at a […]

The tenth Parliament of Somalia was inaugurated in a ceremony today that saw 283 members of parliament (MPs) take their oaths of office. Forty-one of the MPs will become senators in the Upper House while 242 will be members of the House of the People. The MPs were sworn in at the General Kahiye Police […]

27 December 2016 – The United Nations and other members of the international community have voiced grave concern over recent decisions by Somalia’s National Leadership Forum (NLF) that contravenes the African country’s constitutional electoral processes. Currently, Somali’s Provisional Constitution allows for 54 seats in the Upper House of its parliament. Elections have already been held, […]