Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland.They were followed by students pursuing higher studies in the 1960s and 1970s, by the late 1970s through the late 1980s and early 1990s more Somalis arrived.
Hiiraan Online (HOL) is a website dedicated to news and information about Somalia and the Horn of Africa. It was founded in 1999 to deliver news to the growing Somali diaspora and is also based in Somalia. [1] [2] [3] It is published in English and Somali and discusses Somali news and affairs.
GREEN BAY — Local Somali families are one step closer to having culturally appropriate child care options thanks to a new grant. Drawing from its new One Community Fund, the Greater Green Bay ...
A Somali shop on Lisbon Street. In 2011, there were an estimated 5,000 Somali immigrants in Lewiston. [1] Around 5,000 Somalis also resided in Portland. [2] According to the Immigrant Resource Center, there were approximately 7,500 immigrants from East Africa in Androscoggin County where Lewiston is located, including individuals from Somalia.
Get breaking news and the latest headlines on business, entertainment, politics, world news, tech, sports, videos and much more from AOL
Raqiya Haji Dualeh Abdalla, sociologist and politician; President of the Somali Family Care Network; Hussein Sheikh Abdirahman, politician and judge; former Minister of Defence of Somalia; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, writer, political activist, former legislator; Abukar Arman, political analyst, writer and diplomat; former Special Envoy of Somalia to the U.S.
Somalia is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It has maintained a healthy informal economy , based mainly on livestock , remittance / money transfer companies and telecommunications . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Due to a dearth of formal government statistics and the recent civil war , it is difficult to gauge the size or growth of the economy.
Somali woman shows traditional incense during an event to showcase traditional Somali culture Somali woman building a Somali aqal or buul The culture of Somalia is an amalgamation of traditions developed independently and through interaction with neighbouring and far away civilizations, such as other parts of Northeast Africa , the Arabian ...