Somali

The Peninsula-The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) recently sponsored ‘Shida’, the Fourth Annual Forum of the Somali Community in Qatar, organised by Weyak, a Doha-based voluntary organisation that works to foster understanding of mental health issues with outreach activities both regionally and within...

Somali-American Halima Aden is competing for the title of Miss Minnesota USA and she’s hoping to diversify the archetypal image of beauty pageant contestants. Born in a Kenyan refugee camp, Aden moved to Minnesota ― home to one of the largest Somali communities in America...

By BRUHAN MAKONG More by this Author President Uhuru Kenyatta asked Wajir residents to vote for Jubilee in August, saying his government had improved their welfare. Mr Kenyatta told off the opposition for saying the current administration had neglected residents of Wajir, Mandera and Garissa by failing...

Former BBC Somali Service broadcaster, Osman Sugulle, passed away in London this week. Sugule joined the Somali Service early sixties. “He  was a friendly journalist with a sense of humour. "I have known him for a...

By Editorial Board It’s still four months before the Minneapolis City Council will adopt the 2017 operating and capital budget. But the council’s 13 members should know that a high-profile summit on countering extremism, a gathering convened Thursday at the University of Minnesota, underscored the...

BY CONOR GAFFEY  U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump turned on the country’s Somali community on Sunday during a speech in Minnesota. The Republican candidate promised to crack down on “faulty refugee-vetting” if he is elected, saying that large numbers of Somali refugees had settled illegally in...

This story by Arthur Nazaryan originally appeared on PRI.org on April 21, 2017. It is republished here as part of a partnership between PRI and Global Voices. It was just two years ago that Liban Adam found himself in the shrublands in northern Somalia, crouched over a giant bowl of...

Horndiplomat-The Ogaden Liberation Front (ONLF) has today disarmed 1,740 of its armed members. As per an agreement ONLF and Somali regional state signed late this afternoon, the disarmed members will be reintegrated into the regional state either as security forces or as civil servants.  In addition...

Nearly 15,000 Somalis who fled their war-torn country to Kenya and planned to resettle in the United States are now stuck in the world's largest refugee camp because President Trump suspended the U.S. asylum program. They include 137 refugees who just days ago thought they...

Outpouring of funds for Farah's funeral a 'translation' of community's love for him, says Hassan Ibrahim Members of Toronto's Somali community are reeling from the loss of a 24-year-old fatally shot in Scarborough, who is being remembered as having a kind and easy-going personality, always...