STORY HIGHLIGHTS The World Bank-supported Rajo Kaaba ("Building Hope") program has enabled over 2,700 Somali girls to access ...

After feeling alone and unsafe during her early months in Cedar-Riverside, Ayan Isaq decided to find a way to bring her community together. Her idea spurred local Somali women to create a traditional ...

UNESCO joined forces with the Somalia Academy of Science and Arts (SOMASA) in collaboration with the Somali National Commission for UNESCO and the Somali Permanent Delegation to UNESCO to organize a ...

It is eight o’clock in the morning. As punctual as ever, Jamila Ali Hassan, 30, opens the creaking door of the Dairy Retail Cooperative in the Melkadida refugee camp, ready to receive the farmers who ...

A Twin Cities nonprofit serving Somali and Afghan women is expanding its services for victims of domestic and sexual abuse. Isuroon launched a hotline for victims last summer and is developing plans ...

Salom Abdulle is worried her 13-year-old daughter won’t speak Somali, potentially straining her family relationships. “I don’t have any problem understanding my daughter, but my parents do,” she said.

Since its inception in 2019, Somalia's Gargaara MSME Financing Facility, supported by the World Bank and the Somalia Multi-Partner Fund (MPF), has issued more than 1,600 loans to entrepreneurs in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio is home to the second largest Somali population in the U.S. and now there is a place to uplift their heritage after a new museum opened last weekend. Co-founder Mohamed ...

In a studio where the hum of broadcast equipment mixes with focused conversation, the team at Bilan Media prepares for a live ...

For every individual, there is a journey completed by those who came before that eventually comes to define the current days and shapes stories. These are roots, origin stories and for many, it ...

In Mogadishu’s National Theater—a place once shattered by violence—the soft rise of a poem now competes with memories of a suicide bombing. On an otherwise quie ...