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US President-elect calls Clinton's effort to force recount in three states as 'sad', adding 'nothing will change'. Hillary Clinton's decision to join an effort to force recounts of votes from the November 8 election in up to three crucial states has been labelled "sad" by ...

By Liz Sawyer Star Tribune Halima Aden said she entered the competition to break barriers for Muslim women and counter the prevalent notion that they are oppressed. It seemed only fitting that Halima Aden was the first contestant to introduce herself to the audience. Many of...

By CHARLIE SAVAGE, ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTINOV. 27, 2016 WASHINGTON — The escalating American military engagement in Somalia has led the Obama administration to expand the legal scope of the war against Al Qaeda, a move that will strengthen President-elect Donald J. Trump’s authority...

By Faiza Mahamud Star Tribune Mathematician blinded by diabetes stays dedicated to teaching People in the packed Minneapolis mosque gasped when Abdikadir Mohamed Adan stepped before them. Hadn’t he died? The longtime teacher, mathematician and fixture of the local Somali community had been hospitalized with complications of...

  LOS ANGELES — A civil rights group has called for more police protection of mosques after several in California received letters that praised President-elect Donald Trump and threatened Muslim genocide. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said the same handwritten, photocopied letter was sent...

At least 145 out of 1148 candidates registered for this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary School (KCSE) in Dadaab refugee camp missed the examinations due to the ongoing repatriation. Some schools, according to Windle Trust Kenya, an organisation that manages secondary and Tertiary education in...

Halima Aden first came to the United States when she was 7, after her family left the refugee camp in Kenya where Aden was born. Since settling into Minnesota’s growing Somali community — according to census data, the largest such community in the U.S. —...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A huge blast rocked a vegetable market in the Eastern African country on Saturday, killing at least 11 and wounding scores of others as the Eastern African nation is voting in a government and parliamentary election. "Somalia, following decades of civil war...

Few outsiders can be said to have played a more important role in fighting colonialism and apartheid in Africa than Fidel Castro. In fact, so widespread was Fidel’s involvement in the anti-colonial struggles in Africa that it is easier to point to countries where Cuba...

By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suspected car bomb killed at least 10 people when it exploded at a police checkpoint next to a busy market in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday, police and witnesses said. Reuters witnesses saw several bodies...