Somali

Born in Kenya's largest refugee camp, Abdullahi Sheikh Abas, 31, has made headlines after he defeated a prominent Somali official to become a member of parliament. These are the first parliamentary elections in the embattled nation since 1984. For over 20 years, Kenya has been...

Rainier Beach graduate Ahlaam Ibraahim got a full scholarship to the University of Washington. The 18-year-old Somali American has started a group to help students with application and financial-aid paperwork. She wants others to believe, "If Ahlaam can do it, so can I." People often...

President Uhuru Kenyatta left the country on Tuesday for Morocco to attend the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - also known as COP22. State House said that the conference will focus on the implementation of...

An Ethiopian court has sentenced eight Somali nationals to jail terms ranging from two to nine years after they were convicted for planning a failed attack in the capital Addis Ababa. The convicts, who were accused of belonging to the Somali Islamic extremist group al-Shabab,...

The election of Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American lawmaker, has been hailed as historic and great achievement for Somali and immigrant community in the United States. Minnesota voters elected her in a state where the uneasy assimilation of large numbers of Somali refugees became an...

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...

By Teresa Welsh-twelsh@mcclatchy.com On Nov. 8, she is set to become the first elected Somali-American woman in the country. She’s running for a seat in the Minnesota House, and with no opponent on the ballot, is virtually assured victory. She won her August primary with the...

Eight years ago, when Fatimah Hussein started working at Minneapolis’ Brian Coyle Center, she often saw teenage boys playing basketball in the gym, while girls at the center passed the time roaming in the library room or the computer lab. The reason, she said, was...

ABDULLAHI Alim wants to unlock the potential of disadvantaged people. The Manning resident, who has born in Somalia, has been named as a finalist in the 2017 WA Australian of the Year Awards in the young person category alongside Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo, singer...

A year long exhibition of Somali culture has launched at the MShed, as part of the Bristol Festival of Somali Culture. Somalis in Bristol: Where Are We From and Who Are We Now? seeks to introduce new audiences to the richness of Somali culture, break...