The World from PRX

somalis

Rumbila Abdullahi and her husband, Ibrahim Abdi, hold their newborn son, Nabeel, outside their home in Springfield, Massachusetts.
On Course
This refugee’s academic success in the US comes with plenty of complications — and joy
A Somali woman wearing a purple headscarf answers the phone in an office with American flags and East Africa map on the wall.
Migration
US-based Somali Bantu face deportation to a country they’ve never known
A woman poses for a photo
Obituary
Journalist who ‘shined light’ on Somalia dies in terrorist attack
A woman in a hijab speaks into a microphone as dawn breaks in the clouds. An American flag waves in the distance.
Politics
Immigrants have a long history of taking their issues to the people — as political candidates
A Somali government soldier evacuates an injured man from the scene of an explosion.
Conflict
Somalis face ‘slave ship conditions’ on failed deportation flight
Northern Lines Railway in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.
Global Politics
Like Europe, a Minnesota city struggles with refugees
Mohammed Ahamed waits at a money-transfer business in Minneapolis to send money to his ex-wife in Somalia. About 40 percent of all Somali families rely on remittances from another country.
Economics
Somali Americans fight to save their lifeline of cash for relatives back home