So Mariam Mohamed, a Somali woman living in Minnesota, co-founded Hoyo in 2015. It’s a business that provides empowerment and jobs to refugee women through the shared tradition of making sambusas, a ...
Around 150,000 Somalis, both refugees and nonrefugees, live in the United States, according to U.N. estimates from 2015. More Somalis live in Minnesota than any other state. “Being so cold ...
A Somali refugee in Minneapolis fears that the incoming Trump administration will mean a long delay in getting approval for her mother to immigrate to the U.S. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star ...
This as-told-to essay is based on two conversations with Suud Olat, a former refugee from Somalia based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and recipient of the Minnesota Department of Human Services ...
a Somali family of five in Kenya and a Congolese woman are among the people whose trips to Minnesota were canceled after President Trump issued an executive order suspending refugee admissions.
“It is just incredible.” Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman (Ward 6), who was born in Somalia and was briefly a refugee in Kenya before immigrating to the U.S. when he was 14, said in an ...
The order is part of Trump’s “America First” priorities, which characterize the influx of migrants and refugees as a “strain on community safety and resources.” ...
According to a 2013 Minnesota Law Review report, more than 200,000 immigrants and refugees in the U.S. have Jan. 1 as their date of birth. Mahamed Cali, executive director of the Somali community ...