Head of taxpayer-funded Somali charity cutting checks to family members

Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine Executive Director Muhidin Libah paid out over $100,000 from the charity he runs to members of his family between 2023 and 2024, tax filings show. In 2023, ...
UNHCR

Somali Bantus leave for America with hope for a new life

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 22 (UNHCR) - After years of hoping for a new life, the first groups of Somali Bantu refugees have left Kenya for the United States in one of the biggest resettlement operations to ...
UNHCR

Refugees Magazine Issue 128 (Somali Bantu) - Editorial: A lucky few

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 ...

This Utah university is helping refugees learn how to raise chickens. Here’s how.

Through hands-on training at Utah Refugee Goats, this Utah State University program helps refugees master goat and chicken ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota hosts the nation’s largest Somali population. What brought them here?

Minnesota hosts the nation’s largest Somali population, the result of decades of refugee resettlements and growing American-born families. Beginning in 1993, hundreds and then thousands of Somali ...