Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

On January 23, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud spoke to Al Jazeera and warned that Ethiopia should not attempt to fulfil a controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) it signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland on New Year’s Day. Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attend the signing of a memorandum of […]

U.S. President Joe Biden launched Thursday an apparent rebuke of Israel’s military response in the Gaza Strip calling it “over the top” and demanding it has “got to stop.” A Palestinian man searches for bodies and survivors among the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, Deir Al Balah, Gaza, Palestine, Feb. 2024. […]

Deadly Israeli strikes on Rafah Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in Rafah early on Saturday. The attacks came hours after Israel’s prime minister said he had asked the military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from the southern Gaza city ahead of a ground invasion. Benjamin Netanyahu did […]

The strikes on Saturday against the Houthis were launched by US warships and American and British fighter jets. The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of […]

The Palestinian death toll in Gaza has climbed to 27,365 after the ongoing Israeli offensive killed another 127 people there over the last 24 hours, the besieged territory’s Health Ministry said Sunday. A Palestinian youth rummages through the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli attacks, Gaza, Palestine, Feb. 4, 2024. (AA Photo) “The Israeli […]

Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has died at the age of 82 while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in the capital, Windhoek. A veteran of the country’s independence struggle, Mr Geingob had been diagnosed with cancer and revealed the details to the public last month. He died early on Sunday with his wife and children […]

New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, who’s close to the US administration, says emerging doctrine would include Saudi-Israeli normalization, 2-state solution, and campaign against Iran Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) and US President Joe Biden shake hands in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) US President Joe Biden’s administration […]

European Union leaders reached on Thursday morning a deal to establish a €50-billion plan for Ukraine after Viktor Orbán lifted his veto. The decision was taken surprisingly fast at the beginning of an extraordinary summit in Brussels, where financial aid for Kyiv was at the very top of the agenda. The special fund, known as […]

Sweden’s national bomb squad were called to the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on Wednesday, after a suspected explosive device — reportedly a hand grenade — was found nearby. Police cordoned off an area outside the Israeli embassy after the object was found. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT According to a report from the broadcaster TV4, an explosion was […]

Nearly 100 migrants died or went missing in the central and eastern Mediterranean Sea in the month of January, more than double the number reported in the same timeframe last year. The findings were reported by the UN migration agency on Monday, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), during the Italy-Africa summit in Rome. On […]