Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Police say the suicide bomber was prevented from approaching the heavily guarded parliament A suicide car bomb has killed at least four people near Somalia’s parliament, police and Somali media say. Reports say the bomb went off outside the main gate of parliament after guards shot at the bomber. One report quoted al-Shabab militants praising […]

At least two foreign peacekeepers have been killed in Somalia following an attack on a military base by militant Islamist group al-Shabab. Gunmen stormed the base in the central town of Bulo-burde, leading to a heavy exchange of gunfire, residents said. The town has been under siege from al-Shabab since peacekeepers took control of it […]

    LAMU, KENYA: Police have confirmed at least 48 people dead in Mpeketoni, Lamu County following an attack by gunmen last night and warned the toll could rise. Other witnesses say there are more than 30 people who died in the attack by gunmen believed to be Al-shabaab from Somalia. Inspector General of Police […]

Sheekh Maxamed Idiris oo ahaa Wadaad u dhashay dalka Kenya, saakayna lagu dilay xaafada Likoni ee Magaalada Mombasa, ayaa waxaa isla galabta lagu aasay Magaalada Mombasa. Boqolaal ka tirsan Muslimiinta ku dhaqan Magaalada Mombasa, ayaa isugu soo baxday aaska Sheekh Maxamed Idiris, waxaana lagu aasay Khabuuraha Muslimiinta ee Magaalada Mombasa. Dilka Sheekh Maxamed Idiris, ayaa […]

Waxaa maanta dawladda Soomaaliya magangalyo waydiistay Shiikh Atam oo muddo dheer dagaal hubaysan kula jirayDawlad Goboleedka Buuntland isaga oo kasoo duuli jiray buuraleeyda Galgala,Shiikh Atam warsaxaafadeed uu kaga hadlayey isdhiibkiisa wuxuu ku yiri: “Anigoo ah Sheikh Maxamed Siciid Maxamed (Atom), waxaan u hayaa shacabka Soomaaliyeed farriin muhiim ah. Waxaan in muddo ah u dulqaadanayey qaladka […]

minneapolis   Minneapolis family worries that son, 20, is headed to Syria Sadiyo Omar had no idea where her son had gone until the sobbing 20-year-old phoned her from Turkey on Saturday. “Why, why are you there?” she asked. Her son, Abdi Mohamed Nur, a graduate of Southwest High School in Minneapolis, gave no explanation. […]

President Barack Obama is set to announce the first American ambassador to Somalia since the civil war erupted more than 20 years ago, according to a US diplomat. “As a reflection both of our deepening relationship with the country and of our faith that better times are ahead, the president will propose the first US […]

Exclusive: U.N. experts wary of Somaliland plan for armed oil protection unit   Somaliland troops march past during a parade to mark the 22nd anniversary of Somaliland’s self-declared independence from the larger Somalia, in Hargeisa May 18, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Feisal Omar  The experts, who monitor sanctions violations, said in July that Western commercial oil exploration […]

  24 May 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special representative in Somalia, Nicholas Kay, as well as the Security Council, today condemned an attack by suicide bombers and gunmen on the Federal Parliament, in the capital Mogadishu, where legislators were in session. “There can be no justification for such attacks,” Mr. […]