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“I Felt the System Was Raping Me All Over Again”: Senator McSally Reveals Sexual Assault in the Military
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Arts, Culture & Media
K’naan
A woman holds her hand over her face and clutches the arm of a man next to her as they walk through the destroyed shopping district in Mogadishu.
Conflict
Minnesota’s Somali immigrants feel ‘holes’ left after deadly Mogadishu attack
Woman stands at front of meeting room with microphone, one man at table raises hand
Health
In Minnesota, a measles outbreak exposes the gaps in public health
Man standing on stage looking out at crowd, photographed from behind
Development
How two Minnesotans turned their online popularity into big money for famine aid
Somali refugees run from the dust at Dadaab's Ifo camp, Jan. 8, 2007.
Conflict
These young Somalis refuse to go ‘home’ when Kenya closes the world’s largest refugee camp
Abdirahman Yusuf works with the Somali Development Center in Boston, which helps resettle Somali refugees.
Music
For Somali immigrants, the generational divide plays out through music
Somali refugees
Media
Three Somali journalists on Lesbos hope for the best — asylum in Europe
Supporters of three young Somali Americans on trial for plotting to join ISIS in Syria.
Belief
Guilty verdict in Minnesota ISIS trial splinters Somali community
Mohammed Ahamed waits at a money-transfer business in Minneapolis to send money to his ex-wife in Somalia. About 40 percent of all Somali families rely on remittances from another country.
Economics
Somali Americans fight to save their lifeline of cash for relatives back home
Retrieving Well Water In Sindh, Pakistan
When water scarcity leads to conflict
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Somali Love Songs: A Hip Deep Introduction
Web-Exclusive Podcast: More Songs of Love and War from Somalia
Reconstructing Somalia: Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation
Conflict & Justice
Toxic! Britney Spears used as a weapon against Somali pirates
Investigators suspect this Westgate mall suspect is Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, who grew up in Norway and was born in Somalia.
Conflict & Justice
How does a boy from a seaside town in Norway end up a terrorist in Kenya?
Barkhad Abdi, a first-time actor who plays the lead pirate in "Captain Phillips."
Arts, Culture & Media
How a childhood in Somalia helped one guy co-star with Tom Hanks in ‘Captain Phillips’
A Kenyan police officer tries to secure an area inside the Westgate Shopping Centre after a militant siege.
Conflict & Justice
The urban guerrilla comes of age
Conflict & Justice
How the extremist group al-Shabab looks for recruits