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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States said yesterday it would proceed with a plan to take in as many as 12,000 Somali Bantu refugees, starting this spring, despite delays in many other U.S. refugee resettlement programs.

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 ...

Open a door at Terrace Apartments, and the first thing to hit you is the smell of simmering rice. A Somali Bantu refugee cooks dinner for her white neighbor, who is baby-sitting a Liberian boy from ...

Some West Side residents are displaying a classic case of "not in my backyard" syndrome when it comes to an influx of Somali Bantu. That's disappointing at best and appalling at worst. As Assemblyman ...

Somali refugees come here unfamiliar with American gang and gun culture, coupled with cultural and language barriers, said Fatuma Bulle, founder of the Somali Bantu Diverse Center, an organization ...