Not all of the Somali refugees who've come to Maine in the past few years share the same culture. About 500 of them belong to a group of rural farmers who were persecuted as second-class citizens in ...

Abdikadir Mberwa watches over goats at Mwanakuche Farm in Mercer County. Goats are raised and slaughtered in accordance with Islamic principals. A Somali Bantu refugee-led urban farm in Pittsburgh has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Ahmed Baraki works in the community garden at Liberation Farms in Wales, Maine.VINCENT ALBAN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE WALES, Maine — Seventy-two-year-old Ahmed Baraki leans forward, his back parallel to ...