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, and half the day in English. In current research, the dual language immersion model is emerging as...
May 27, 2025
Category: Youth – Generation Next
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Premier Bank Rewards $21,000 to the Winners of Hal-abuur Startup Competition
Mogadishu- Premier Bank held an award ceremony in Mogadishu on Thursday night, the 28 of April, rewarding $21,000 to the top three students of the Hal-abuur startup competition, which was held for the first time in Mogadishu this year for the talented and creative university students. Mr. Ahmednur Mohamed, the Head of Public Relations of...
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Resolution of the Grand Meeting of Geri Kombe in Nairobi
In its inclusive grand meeting on December 30, 2021 at the Sir Ali Muslim Sports Club, in Nairobi Kenya, organized by GERI KOMBE Youth Council in Kenya, that brought together over 1,000 people, discussed a range of issues including; The unfolding political events leading up to the forthcoming Kenya general elections in 2022 and mobilization...
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PhD student invents a ring for leaking heart valves
A small ring around the main artery may cure patients with leaking heart valves. Researchers have documented its effect on animals and they hope they will make it possible to use the technology on humans. A leaking heart valve – or in technical terms, aortic insufficiency – is a condition in which the valve between...
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Somali Youth Sequestered in Eritrea: Abuse and Illegality on a Grand Scale
With a little more respect for the law in Mogadishu, I am sure it would be possible to ask a few important questions related to a very curious security relationship that has been developing since at least 2018 between the Federal Government of Somalia and the Government of Eritrea. It is fair to say that...
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Reviving Sports in Somalia Will Usher in Peace and Reconciliation
By Abighani Hirad The passion for sports is a tradition that is shared throughout Somalia. Somalis are sports enthusiasts, particularly football. However, for more than 25 years Somalia has been marked by armed conflict and clan tensions. These events in the last 25 years have relegated sports to the back, given other competing needs. For...
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County school board saves Iftin charter school from closure
By KRISTEN TAKETA, San Diego Union Tribune The San Diego County Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to keep Iftin Charter School open for another five years, despite a report from the county’s own staff listing many reasons to deny the school’s renewal. The board approved Iftin — a K-8 school in mid-city San Diego known...
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The Cry of a Four-Year Old Somali Girl that Deserved to be Heard
By Abdiaziz Ali Mumtaz Ahmed Jeh was a four-year old Somali girl and daughter of Fathima Ahmed and Ahmed Jeh who lived in Gabagabo which is under Tuli-Guled District Administration and is almost about 16 miles away from Jigjiga, the capital city of Somali Region, Ethiopia. According to a person who visited the place and...
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Coronavirus puts four million girls at risk of child marriage
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Four million girls are at risk of child marriage in the next two years because of the new coronavirus pandemic, a global charity said on Friday, as campaigners warned that the crisis could undo decades of work to end the practice. Deepening poverty caused by the loss of livelihoods is...
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Learning in a pandemic, when ‘online school’ is the village chalkboard
LAGOS (Reuters) – With her school shut because of the coronavirus, Tolu Alagba kneels as she copies down class notes from a communal village chalkboard, the closest thing to online lessons on an island with no electricity, a boat ride from Nigeria’s megacity Lagos. Like much of the world, Nigeria ordered schools shut in late...