And like many Somali Bantu -- an ethnic group distinct from other Somalis and among the most persecuted people in the world -- they were definitely overwhelmed by the world that awaited them. Most ...

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 ...

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The Somali Bantu community in Pittsburgh is small but organized. Refugees began arriving in the city from camps along the Somali border in the early 2000s. Members of the community started the ...

The Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine in Lewiston has moved from a small rental space to a much larger building it now owns. “We always needed a big space,” said Muhidin Libah, the ...

Bashir Ahmed has just one memory about moving into his family's new Columbus apartment 16 years ago: the sounds of police sirens and gunfire. A new American arrival, then-8-year-old Bashir wondered if ...

The holiday season can be overwhelming, even for those who have seen it many times. But for those exposed to the Christmas phenomenon for the first time, the mix of shopping marathons, huge light ...

(Columbia) March 21, 2004 - The Somali Bantu family that arrived in Columbia less than two weeks ago is continuing to adjust to life in South Carolina. The family was honored as the special guests at ...

You're a young teenager. Your country has erupted into civil war, There's fighting, violence, genocide, enslavement, and you witness unspeakable horror. You make it to a faraway refugee camp, but may ...

WALES, Maine — Seventy-two-year-old Ahmed Baraki leans forward, his back parallel to the ground, and vigorously rakes his “yaanbo,” or hoe, loosening the weeds that cluster around the young cabbage ...