NAIROBI, Kenya, July 2 (UNHCR) - More than 500 Somali Bantus in Kenya have started the first stage of what could be a long journey to eventual resettlement in the United States under a joint operation ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LEWISTON — With speeches, food and dance, the Somali Bantu community ...

Mohamed Muktar reporting in Washington, D.C. On a Saturday morning in early December, Mohamed Muktar scribbled furiously on his legal pad, oblivious to the flurry of activity in the studio of Vermont ...

After spending years living in UN-supported camps in Kenya, some 220 former refugees from Somalia now work as farmers in the US state of Maine, growing crops ranging from beets to broccolini.

In Somalia, the Kasim family and other Bantus were treated as outsiders, taunted as “donkeys” and “slaves.” In the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, other Africans bullied them into second-class jobs such ...