KAKUMA, Kenya (UNHCR) - Hawiya Abdi Aden does not speak a word of English. She has never ever seen a washing machine, nor a flush toilet, nor a commercial airliner. But in a few months' time, this ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 22 (UNHCR) - After years of hoping for a new life, the first groups of Somali Bantu refugees have left Kenya for the United States in one of the biggest resettlement operations to ...

Collecting ransom proves a lucrative business, and also improves one’s social life. NAIROBI, Kenya — There’s at least one job these days that’s recession-proof, if you can handle shark-infested seas, ...

Society / Trump keeps targeting Minnesota’s Somali community. But as one organizer says, “What we’ve built here, we’re not going to let it be easy for people to take that away from us.” Iliana Hagenah ...

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The Somalia Humanitarian Funding (SHF) has allocated US$26 million to scale up life-saving assistance for about 1.2 million people in the country. These critical funds, part of the SHF 2021 Reserve ...

TikTok doesn’t just reflect clannism, it actively amplifies it In a recent research project I undertook, I discovered that TikTok is amplifying clannism and reshaping Somali identity politics by ...

Many Minnesota schools rely on teacher-created Somali language classes. A new curriculum, created by Saida Hassan, aims to ease that burden and make programs easier to sustain.