Two Canadian women jailed in Somalia and facing 40 lashes were released Tuesday, according to sources. Maymona Abdi, 28, and Karima Watts, 24, were arrested in January after police entered a house in ...

GALKAYO, Somalia (UNHCR) - Hawa Aden has been called a witch. She and her women colleagues have been labelled traitors to Somali culture and the Islamic religion, and had Friday sermons preached ...

The memories of the war against Somalia continue to haunt the secessionist territory in the Horn of Africa. Today, Somaliland ...

Political rhetoric has a way of flattening people. In Minnesota, Somali women are too often framed through tired and false lenses: need, obedience, difference. In the current climate of heightened ICE ...

Somali women have been facing formidable challenges and complain about marginalization in politics but they in turn played a pivotal role in securing peace deals between warring forces on the ground.

AISHA REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia, March 8 (UNHCR) - As a Somali girl and the youngest of five children, Amina Dualeh isn't accustomed to standing up to her father. But when her parents, two brothers and ...

In Hargeisa, the largest city in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland, traditional and religious values still influence societal norms. However, some women are breaking down those barriers by ...

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