Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine Executive Director Muhidin Libah paid out over $100,000 from the charity he runs ...
No more. We will not stand for injustices.” Those were the words of state Sen. Adam Gomez on Dec. 9 as he, his fellow ...
Murals, and public art in general, are a great way to broadcast messages to the community. Rather than erecting ugly billboards that are relentlessly “in our face,” broadcasting car accident and slip ...
Five years and 155 days after Abdi Aden Abdi arrived in Tucson, having left a Kenyan refugee camp where thousands of fellow Somali Bantu struggled to live amid squalor, misery and distress, he walked ...
Two Somali Bantu political refugees were released from federal immigration detention over the weekend, after spending months in jail for their failure to apply for their legal alien resident card.
CHOGO, Tanzania, June 3 (UNHCR) - Some 300 years after their ancestors were taken from here to be sold as slaves, almost 1,300 Somali Bantu refugees are now full citizens of Tanzania. A further 1,500 ...
I was shocked and angered by President Trump’s remarks about Somali Americans. We are fortunate to have Somalis in Maine. They are industrious, hard-working and have added much to the communities ...
When the nation-state of Somalia collapsed into a series of warring fiefdoms in the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of civilians fled for their lives. Some have since returned home, but many are ...
Some West Side residents are displaying a classic case of "not in my backyard" syndrome when it comes to an influx of Somali Bantu. That's disappointing at best and appalling at worst. As Assemblyman ...
They are students from various war-torn African countries, schooling in Kenya, and they share one painful experience: they have never known peace and stability in their home countries. Many of those ...