Kirsti Marohn Kindergartners in the St. Cloud school district will soon be able to learn both English and Somali through a dual language immersion program. Students in a dual language immersion program will receive instruction half the day in Somali, … Continued
A new school for disabled children in Qardo, north-eastern Somalia, has provided a stable and well equipped learning environment for 180 boys and girls. Gaheyr School, built by the UN’s children’s agency UNICEF, was handed over on 20 October to … Continued
The sea of rag-and-stick tents that spreads in every direction from the hungry, embattled city of Baidoa, in southern Somalia, gives way to sprawling plains controlled by the militants of Al Shabab. Over 165,000 refugees have streamed into Baidoa since … Continued
CAIRO (Reuters) – When Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit this week it will be hoping for an injection of international legitimacy as well as green financing at a time when its economy has been struggling and it has faced … Continued
Madey Hassan Abdi, 65, a blind father of seven children, lives a life of helplessness in Said camp in Mogadishu’s Deynile district. He lost his sight in April after an eye infection worsened and he could not afford to seek … Continued
There are two Somali Americans running for seats in the Maine Legislature this year, and a growing number of Mainers from immigrant backgrounds are seeking, and winning, positions in municipal government. Still, some say much more representation is needed in … Continued
With hundreds of people from Somalia arriving each week in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Complex, living conditions in camps hosting over 233,000 refugees and thousands of new arrivals since January are worsening. Given the conditions in these overcrowded camps, there is … Continued
RIYADH — A plane carrying six injured Somalis arrived on Friday at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh for treatment in the Kingdom. It comes in an implementation of the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman … Continued
A refugee who fled Somalia with his mother as a child is seeking the Labour nomination in a high-profile safe seat. Abdi Suleiman, 32, who works in parliamentary affairs, wants to be the Labour candidate for Sheffield Central at the next general … Continued
BY BELINDA LUSCOMBE After a series of particularly devastating famines in East and West Africa in the early 1980s—the ones that sparked the Live Aid concert and set Bono on his path from rock star to humanitarian dynamo—the U.S. set up an early warning … Continued
Azeezat Olaoluwa The World Health Organization says Africa has the highest rate of people dying by suicide in the world. In a statement , the agency said Africa is home to six of the 10 countries with the highest suicide … Continued
Sahra Mohamud Dool, 55, estimates that she must have cut more than 10,000 Somali girls during her 15 years working as a circumciser in southern Somalia’s Kismayo. The last time she used her razor blade to perform a female genital … Continued
