Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

The parliament of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland will choose the state’s next leader on 8January,  Reuters has reported. . Said Abdullahi Dani, President of Puntland State attends a session as members of the lower and upper house of the legislature meet to elect the new president in Mogadishu, Somalia on May 15, 2022 [Tufan Aktaş/Anadolu Agency] […]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced Monday his candidacy for a third term in office, ahead of December elections he is widely expected to win. Supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gather at an election campaign rally outside the Cairo University campus in Giza, October 2, 2023. © Khaled Desouki, AFP “As I have responded […]

Israel will not be able to escape accountability for all the oppression it has caused in Palestine since World War II, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday as the war in Gaza entered its second month. People mourn Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on houses, at Abu Yousef Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah in the southern […]

Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in southern Gaza on Tuesday, prompting a UN warning of an “even more hellish scenario” as fighting pushes civilians into a steadily shrinking area of the besieged territory Palestinians fleeing Khan Younis arrive in Rafah further south near the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt on December 5, 2023, after Israeli forces […]

Abdullahi Mire, a former refugee championing education for displaced children and youth, is the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s Global Laureat Abdullahi Mire, a former refugee championing education for displaced children and youth, is the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s Global Laureate. A former child refugee born in Somalia, who dedicated himself to changing lives […]

Israel shifted Sunday its brutal military operation in Gaza toward the southern half of the territory and issued evacuation orders for more areas in and around the city of Khan Younis Palestinians carry their belongings following Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Dec. 2, 2023. (Reuters Photo) Heavy bombardments […]

Three young Palestinian students were shot and injured, one critically, in a suspected hate crime near the University of Vermont, U.S., police said Sunday. (From L) The three victims of a hate crime Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali, and Kenan Abdulhamid, who were shot on their way to a family dinner, are seen in this undated […]

Mediator Qatar said on Monday a truce between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza had been extended by two days, continuing a pause in seven weeks of warfare that has killed thousands and laid waste to the Palestinian enclave. Palestinians fleeing north Gaza move southward as ambulances head towards north Gaza during a temporary truce […]