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 ...

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 ...

The unskilled, third-world refugee must find within himself a knack for patience. Life would be unbearable without it. In the camps, there is little to do. There is seldom electric light in the ...

Aweys Mwaliya runs the Somali Bantu Community Association of Pittsburgh. This is a difficult time for the community, he said. When President Donald Trump castigated Somalis in his State of the Union ...

Many fled war, immigrating to the North Star State for opportunities and hospitality. Minnesota hosts the nation’s largest Somali population, the result of decades of refugee resettlements and growing ...

KAKUMA, Kenya (UNHCR) - Hawiya Abdi Aden does not speak a word of English. She has never ever seen a washing machine, nor a flush toilet, nor a commercial airliner. But in a few months' time, this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aden, Yemen – Lying on the outskirts of Yemen’s interim capital, Aden, al-Basateen district starts where the paved roads end, ...

A Somali couple with three children is seeking a new life in Minnesota thanks to a Catholic Charities' resettlement program that cites a Christian imperative for its work. "Now the family is together ...

The images are stark and omnipresent. Long lines of desperate people trudge through mud. In vast tent cities, barefoot, skinny small boys and girls with huge eyes stare out at us. In bombed out cities ...