Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

More details have emerged about the contents of a container inspected at Mogadishu port as part of efforts to counter the illegal charcoal trade. When it was inspected on 28 October, the container was found to contain explosives, military uniforms, knives and magnetic devices used in improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the Somali government’s minister of […]

Kasmaal/ Mogadishu :A number of Somali lawmakers have demanded an apology from U.N. Special Envoy Nicholas Kay for allegations that some MPs had been bribed in order to influence their vote in a no-confidence vote on Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed. “It is an insult to the Somali Parliament,” MP Dalha Omar told Anadolu Agency on Monday. […]

The president of Somalia is telling the United Nations to keep out of the country’s internal politics. Monday’s statement from President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud came after the U.N. envoy to Somalia, Nicholas Kay, expressed concern that lawmakers are being bribed to vote against the prime minister in a possible no-confidence motion. Determining its own future […]

On a visit to Somalia, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives at Mogadishu’s Aden Kasmaal/Mogadishu – Somalia has made “remarkable progress” as it continues down the road towards economic and political stability, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today as he arrived in the capital city of Mogadishu – the third stop in a tour of the Horn […]

MOGADISHU, Kasmaal– The Somali police commissioner Gen. Mohamed Sheikh Hassan Ismail died in the country’s capital Mogadishu after he was rushed to a hospital by his aides, officials confirmed Thursday. The President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud sent condolences to the people of Somalia and ordered emergency investigation. Speaking to the government’s Radio Mogadishu from […]

Death penalty for apostasy not justifiable in Islam: Somali scholar Interview by Bosire Boniface in Garissa Somali author Abdisaid Abdi Ismail has come under intense scrutiny after publishing a Somali language book titled “The Rule of Apostasy in Islam: Is it True?” in which he argues that there is no religious justification for killing people […]

People applaud after the Minneapolis City Council votes to become a sister city with Bosaso, Somalia, on Oct. 17, 2014. It’s the first sister city arrangement between the U.S. and Somalia. By Zachary Bielinski By Kevin Karner October 20, 2014 Minneapolis became sisters with a Somali counterpart on Friday — becoming the first city in […]

(Reuters) – Somalia’s president said on Friday that nobody close to him had been involved in the unauthorised diversion of government weapons to Islamist militants and denied that a man U.N investigators linked to the arms trade had advised him. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was responding to a report from the United Nations‘ Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring […]

A popular Somali band has been forced to seek asylum in the Netherlands after Kenya revoked its refugee status, its lead singer has told the BBC. Falis Abdi Mohamud said Kenyan officials seized her refugee card and that of four other band members when they flew out of Nairobi last month. The band – famous […]

(Reuters) – U.N. investigators have accused an advisor to Somalia’s president of involvement in the unauthorised diversion of Somali government weapons to Islamist militants with ties to al Qaeda, according to a confidential new report seen by Reuters. The accusation by the Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group, an eight-member panel of independent experts that oversees compliance with […]