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The Full-Court Pressure Of The Somali-American Sportswoman

By:Sarah Barker   How My Daily Commute as a 20-Something White Woman Taught Me About the National Political Situation Most Twin Cities high school cross country and track teams have Somali students on the roster. Some of these prep runners have gone on to successful college and...

700 stones found in Somalia national’s kidney

Doctors at a city-based private hospital were astonished when they found hundreds of small stones in a Somalian’s kidney. They suspect the man suffers from a unique condition that causes his kidneys to produce more stones. The patient from Galkayo in Somalia Abdi Rahman had...

Viral Video From A Somali Comic Conquers The Internet

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The music video went up on December 22. It's got all the ingredients to go viral: a catchy beat, smooth vocals and easy-to-copy dance moves. It's garnered over two million views so far and inspired copies around the world. But it's definitely not your typical internet...

1,000 Somali Shillings: How mosques hold Somalia together

by Said Shaiye Back when I lived in Seattle, I really only had a working understanding of what it meant to be Muslim. I’ve prayed in Seattle mosques before — usually Masjid Al-Noor in White Center or Masjid Abu Bakr in Tukwila — but like many young Somali...

Somali-American Picked as US Youth Observer to UN

  A Somali-American from Minnesota will speak on behalf of youth at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York and other events. Munira Khalif, who will be a junior this fall at Harvard University, was chosen from 350 applicants as the 2017-2018 U.S. Youth...

Minnesota Woman gets probation for supporting Al-shabaab

A Minnesota woman who sent money to the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia was sentenced to five years' probation on Wednesday after she cooperated with prosecutors, who said the light sentence would send a message to community members who shunned the woman yet supported...

Why Turkish diplomats are pressuring Canada’s Somali diaspora

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime is flexing its diplomatic muscles to hunt its opponents wherever they are in the world By:Adnan R. Khan Early last August, a group of Somali community leaders was invited to the Turkish consulate in Toronto to meet with some Turkish parliamentarians. The...

Black Immigrants Fight Mass Deportation of Haitians, Somalis

Approximately 50,000 Haitians and 4,000 Somalis are now at risk of being deported. The Black Alliance for Just Immigration, BAJI, is calling on lawmakers to halt the mass deportation of Haitian and Somali immigrants living in the United States. BAJI, a grassroots organization that mobilizes and empowers...

World Refugee Day: Meet the Somali politicians breaking through in the Nordics 

Composite image showing Suldaan Said Ahmed and Marian Hussein - Copyright Euronews
By: Euronews To mark World Refugee Day, Euronews profiles two Somalis and traces their journeys from arrival in the Nordics to their breakthroughs as politicians. _In the Nordic region, the first Somalis arrived in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later, as Somalia's civil war became more intense,...

Somali man on trial in Germany over fatal stabbings

The Somali suspect, an asylum seeker with a history of mental health problems, faces charges including murder and attempted murder Christof STACHE AFP
 By:AFP A Somali man went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of stabbing three people to death and injuring several others, with prosecutors seeking to have him placed in psychiatric care. The suspect, an asylum seeker with a history of mental health problems, faces charges...