Somali

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,...

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...

By: Vivian Tan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - For most of her life, Nawa watched as other children went to school. As a refugee and a girl at that, she was told there was no place for her in the classroom. That looked set to continue when...

Six Somali students of a private university in Dhaka have been missing for more than a year. The university filed a general diary (GD) with West Uttara Police Station on July 24, 2017, but police have not been able to trace the students over the...

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...

Anthony Sawina targeted group in Minnesota as they headed to prayers, wounding two, after threatening to 'kill all'. A jury has convicted a white man of attempted murder for shooting and wounding two Somali-American men who were on their way to Ramadan prayers in Minneapolis...

By Anthony Langat DADAAB REFUGEE COMPLEX, Kenya — Mohamed Omar Abdille remembers the night before he left his home in Merca, Somalia, in September 2012 to begin life as a refugee. He was 15. Family and friends gathered around the table for a final meal before...

Mohamed Qoomaall forged an immigration stamp on his British passport and had pension credit payments sent to him for two-and-a-half years as a friend enjoyed rent-free living in his council-funded home A Somalian refugee who pocketed nearly £39,000 in benefits after secretly returning to his homeland because...

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – At Gideon Pond Elementary, the morning greeting is delivered by the principal. “Make a positive choice,” Chris Bellmont counsels his students over the school public address system. The principal may deliver the message, but a 23-year-old teachers’ aide makes it stick. “He is the...

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...