Month: September 2023

SOMALI YOUTHS’ PRIMARY PRIORITY: Throughout history, young people have played crucial roles in shaping transformative movements, from the rise of Islam to the struggle for Somalia’s independence. Somali youths, inspired by a deep sense of national identity and a longing for freedom, actively participated in resistance against colonial powers during the early days of the...

The kids coming off the buses Tuesday were planning on spending the day meeting their teachers, making new friends, and settling into a new school routine. Making history was not on their minds. But as the first students to attend St. Paul’s East African Elementary Magnet School in St. Paul, that’s what they were doing....

In a pleasant but unassuming home on the outskirts of Columbus lived a man who helped shape the course of history some 7,600 miles away. The street in a planned suburban subdivision in Jefferson Township, with its manicured lawns and large, cookie-cutter houses, seems a far cry from the arid mountains of northern Somalia where...

Doha, Qatar: The Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia HE Hamza Abdi Barre received today Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HE Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater, at his residence in Doha. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral cooperation relations between the two countries and the...

Since setting up a small food shop in the shabby camp she lives in in Mogadishu, Fadumo Adan Warsame, a 44-year-old widow, has not had to worry about how to put food on the table for her children. “We get to cook every day now and we don’t go hungry,” she said. “I was getting...