Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

JEDDAH: Two Somali women who were stopped by policemen for identity checks were horrified to discover the men had disguised themselves in police uniforms so they could kidnap and assault them. In total, five men assaulted the women at two different locations after deceiving them by telling them they would be taking them to a […]

JEDDAH: A fire ripped through a hospital in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 24 people and injuring 123, according to the health ministry. The blaze broke out in the intensive care unit and the maternity department of the Jazan General Hospital in the Kingdom’s south, the civil defense agency said on Twitter. The health minister, […]

 Residents of Pandaguo Village in Lamu are living in fear after a 22-year-old man Monday reported to have come into contact with suspected Al-Shabaab militants when he went to harvest honey in Boni Forest. Mr Musa Genje said he found himself in the hands of six heavily armed men who harassed him and even threatened […]

An aerial view of part of the eastern sector of the Ifo II camp in the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp on April 28, 2015. AFP PHOTO | TONY KARUMBA  Somali refugees to benefit from Sh5bn by EU for resettlement – News | Daily Nation The European Union has announced new funding worth €50 million (Sh5 […]

Police have stepped up the hunt for a group of teenage girls who have been missing from north London for more than a week. Fardowsa Hassan, 13, and Abir Salah, 16, were last seen on December 6, while Abir’s sister Ahlam, 15, went missing on Saturday. They are all from Wood Green. They are not […]

The New York son of Somali singer and politician Saado Ali Warsame is suing the US arm of a money-transfer business, claiming it helped fund the assassination of his mother. Warsame was shot and killed by Al-Shabaab terrorists in Mogadishu, Somalia, in July 2014. Her son, Harbi Hussein, who was born in New York but […]

Mandera Senator Billow Kerrow. Flying Squad officers arrested Mr Kerrow and three other MPs from Mandera on December 10, 2015 over remarks on discovery of a mass grave. FILE PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA | NATION MEDIA GROUP Mandera Senator Billow Kerrow and three MPs from the region have been arrested. The four were picked by […]

Local leaders, at a press conference in Nairobi, on Monday accused the Kenya Defence Forces of executing terror suspects, a charge the military denied. Neither local leaders such as Mandera Governor Roba and Senator Kerrow, nor theNation reporter could be reached Tuesday afternoon and early evening. Reports seen by Nation showed that the brother of Ms Isnina Musa […]

The defections of two fighters, an American and a U.S. resident, from Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels highlight tensions within al-Shabab over whether it should remain affiliated to al-Qaida or switch allegiance to the Islamic State group, according to an al-Shabab commander. Foreign fighters are being alienated and feel trapped in Somalia over suspicions that they […]

  A young man who came to Minnesota as a “refugee” from Somalia has been linked to Syed Farook, the shooter who, along with his jihadist wife, killed 14 Americans in San Bernardino less than a week ago. Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler provided a key piece of information about the case, linking the San […]