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Minneapolis hosts pitch competition for Somali entrepreneurs

Minbar,an international entrepreneurship organization, will host its first startup competition in Minneapolis this month highlighting businesses created by Somali entrepreneurs across the globe. To be considered for the competition, startups must offer a product or service that promotes job opportunities and quality of life in...

Hussein Muktar nurtures understanding between cultures

BY MARY POLS His gift of language helps to build farms, starting with New Roots in Lewiston, a new cooperative owned by Somali immigrants It takes a lot brainstorming, negotiating and planning to start any new farming venture. But factor in that the farmers are from...

Watch:Somalian family of 9 arrives safely in Kansas City

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KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -A mother and her eight children from Somalia just landed in Kansas City thanks to a stay on President Donald Trump's travel ban. As judges decided if the ban will remain or not, local groups are helping the refugees relocate to...

When A Somali-American Woman Was Attacked, Support Came From An Unlikely Source

Asma Jama was out to dinner with her family at an Applebee's in Coon Rapids, Minn., in October 2015, when a woman seated nearby starting getting angry. Why? Jama, who is Somali-American and Muslim, was speaking Swahili and wearing a hijab. The woman, Jodie Bruchard-Risch,...

US bans electronic devices on flights from eight majority-Muslim countries

By:Shehab Khan, Simon Calder @shehabkhan No American carriers are impacted by the ban, which involves devices larger than a mobile phone Donald Trump’s administration has banned airline passengers from eight Middle Eastern and North African countries from carrying large electronic devices. No American carriers are impacted by...

UW Somali American student launches group to help would-be college students

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...

Cousin of ‘teenage terror twins’ to be sentenced for helping friend go to Syria

The cousin of girls dubbed the "teenage terror twins" after they joined Islamic State will be sentenced for helping a friend go to Syria. From his mother's home in Manchester, A-level student Abdullahi Ahmed Jama Farah, 20, created a "hub of communication" for his "Mandem"...

Somali scholar proves it’s never too late to learn in Malaysia

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...

Community prepares for Somali family’s arrival after executive order barred them last week

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Community prepares for Somali family's arrival after executive order barred them last week. Workers with the resettlement group Della Lamb Community Services joined Country Club Christian Church volunteers Tuesday in preparing a northeast Kansas City house slated to be home for a family of nine...

Saudi Arabia to recruit 10,000 Somalis

By Habib Toumi Employment will be sponsored by recruiting agencies Manama: The general understandings of the convention regulating the recruitment of Somali citizens to work Saudi Arabia have been completed, a Somali diplomatic source said. “The Somali labour minister will visit the kingdom soon to finalise the...