Minneapolis police chief issues apology for linking Somali youth to local crime

Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara apologizes to Somali community after controversial comments linking "East African kids" ...
Human Rights Watch

Somalia: Constitutional Proposals Put Children at Risk

(Nairobi) – Somalia’s parliament should reject any proposed constitutional amendments that would weaken rights protections for children, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 30, 2024, both houses ...
Washington Examiner

50,000 Somali kids at risk: UN, gov’t ask for help

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s 2011 famine is over. Militants have been pushed out of Mogadishu. Political progress is being made. And yet the U.N. and Somali government are pleading with ...
Star Tribune

This group of Somali elders walks Minneapolis streets to keep an eye on their youth

Seven members of Somali Youth Link were walking just outside Dinkytown late on a Saturday night when they saw people hanging out in a dimly lit parking lot. Twenty yards away, the group appeared only ...
Philadelphia Tribune

In Somalia, Mogadishu playground means kids can have fun

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali kids just want to have fun. They climb on a jungle gym, ride bikes, splash in a swimming pool and laugh — a scene normal in many parts of the world, but new in Mogadishu ...
UNHCR

Q&A: Sisters in a "Sweet Rush" to make music and help Somalis

GENEVA, November 2 (UNHCR) - Born in Mogadishu, Siham and Iman Hashi are the first female Somali artists to sign a record deal with a major American label. After the civil war broke out in Somalia in ...