Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Malawi UN soldiers © Junior D. Kannah / Reuters Vigilante mobs have begun summarily executing people suspected of being “blood-sucking” vampires, leading the UN to recall several staff members from both the Phalombe and Mulanje districts of Southern Malawi. Five people have been killed since mid-September. “While His Excellency President Arthur Peter Mutharika was attending […]

Media captionWildfires rip through California’s famous wine country Parts of California’s wine region are being ravaged by fast-spreading fires that have killed at least 10 people. A state of emergency was declared in northern areas after mass evacuations, with 1,500 properties destroyed. About 20,000 people fled from Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties in response to […]

MOSCOW: Saudi Arabia has dismissed several thousand imams from mosques for spreading extremism, Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir told Russian journalists in Moscow on Sunday. “We will not let anyone spread the ideology of hatred, to finance that kind of ideology or terrorism,” he said. “Our approach to this problem has been very strict: We … […]

John Bass The decision to halt visa services in Turkey was taken with “great sadness,” the United States Ambassador to Ankara John Bass said in a statement released late Monday. The decision to halt visas came after Metin Topuz, an employee of the U.S.’ Istanbul Consulate General, was arrested over suspicions of supporting and/or being […]

Faisal BaDughaish was teaching his wife how to drive in a private parking area. (Twitter) Faisal BaDughaish, the Saudi man who tweeted a photo of him in a car teaching his wife how to drive shortly after the ban on women’s driving was lifted, said those who insulted him and threatened him on Twitter have been approached […]

© KCNA / Reuters German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned the US against breaking the nuclear deal with Iran, since it would make North Korea unlikely to agree to any international deals concerning its nuclear program. “Our big concern is, with regard to North Korea, that it is very unlikely the North Korean dictatorship is […]

Color festival in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Zeko Dano Daniyal) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A Kurdish official on Monday confirmed that many Iraqi and foreign diplomats have proposed a confederalist system as a means to resolve issues between Erbil and Baghdad that led to the controversial Sep.25 referendum. The Kurdistan Region’s […]

officials say the Iranian captain of a fishing boat was killed and another sailor was injured after security forces opened fire during an operation in the Indian Ocean. Officials said the shooting occurred after Puntland Maritime Police Forces spotted two boats suspected to be fishing illegally Friday in Somali waters. Colonel Mohamed Abdi Hashi of […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi heads a meeting of the Iraqi National Security in Baghdad on October 9, 2017. It passed a set of new measures against the Kurdistan Rehion in response to holding the vote on independence last month. Photo” PM media office BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq has filed a lawsuit through the office […]

Bengt Holmström, one of the 2016 Nobel Economics Prize winners. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT The 2017 Nobel Prize announcement season comes to an end with the Economics Prize. 11:40 Five minutes to go… With five minutes to go until the announcement, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is packed with journalists from across the globe. The […]