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Twenty-five-year-old Shukri Shafe Guled comes from the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia, but has been living in Australia since 2010. In June 2016, he and other protesters gathered in Melbourne to demonstrate against the visit of an Ethiopian delegation that included the Somali Regional...

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...

November 2016 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) is mandated with many tasks in the east African nation as it continues to make significant strides in its peace process after two decades of lawlessness and conflict. These tasks include helping the Federal...

Senator Amy Klobuchar talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's broad-brush insult of the Minnesota Somali community as he tries to win more white rural voters by making them afraid of their non-white neighbors source:msnbc

By IMENDE BENJAMIN @akhasakhulu Kenya has launched a major diplomatic campaign aimed at getting votes for Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed to become the next African Union Commission chairperson. The post is currently held by South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, who was elected in July 2012...

At least 25 soldiers were killed in weekend fighting between rival Puntland and Galmudug regional forces in the Somali town of Galkayo, military officials on both sides said today. “We have lost 12 men and there are more than 10 wounded,” said Puntland commander Jumale...

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday gave US voters a stark choice as their brutal White House battle neared its end — between her vision of unity and his promise to take back power from Washington's corrupt elites. On the final day of a...

by KENZI ABOU-SABE When Ilhan Omar beat a 22-term incumbent to win her primary for Minnesota state representative of District 60B, the Somali-American former refugee was suddenly primed for a trio of significant firsts: first Muslim refugee in elected office, first Somali-American Muslim woman in...

The FBI has cleared US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of criminal offense after reviewing the latest batch of emails she sent using her private account when she served as the secretary of state. In a letter to members of Congress On Sunday, FBI director James...

She calls herself “the hijabi,” a reference to her headscarf that she wraps elegantly around her head while conducting her duty as an advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama’s deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes. Rumana Ahmed will be one of six people featured in...