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Refugee in Minnesota

How to walk on ice, and other essential winter-survival tips for newcomers to America

Education

Some refugees who’ve lived in warmer climates all their life, come to the US sporting flip flops and shorts. Part of their American orientation is learning how to stay warm and enjoy the winter weather in Minnesota.

Internally displaced people Somalians gather outside their makeshift shelters in the Hodan district in southern Mogadishu to listen to proceeding of a 2012 parliamentary election.

A BBC program is reuniting Somali families torn apart by conflict

Conflict & Justice

Proposed gay marriage amendment forces Somali immigrants to confront taboo

Global Politics

The Somali-American identity crisis

Global Politics

Somali refugee helps people captured by pirates

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Family planning for Somali-Americans

The Minnesota International Health Volunteers group created a unique family planning message to fit the cultural needs of the Somali population in that state.

Saudi oil tanker in pirate hands

A Saudi-owned oil tanker loaded with $100 million dollars worth of crude oil destined for the U.S. was seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia.

Suicide Attack at Somalia’s National Theatre Seen as Setback to Civil Society

Global Politics

The National Theatre in the Somali capital, Mogadishu was the scene of a deadly suicide bomb attack on Wednesday. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Jabril Ibrahim Abdulle, one of the organizers of the theatre. He was in the theater when the bomb exploded.

Somali-American Man is Alleged Suicide Attacker

Over the weekend, two suicide bombers carried out an attack on African Union troops in Mogadishu, Somalia. Ten people were killed.  The man allegedly responsible? A 22-year-old Somali-American man named Abdisalan Hussein Ali. He’s not the first Somali-American to leave the U.S. and return back to Somalia to join a terrorist group called al Shabab.  Zuhur Ahmed  hosts […]

Somali Author Examines Teen Islamist Fighters

Global Politics

What motivates a teenager in the American Midwest to join a Somali militant group.

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