A Somali woman barred from Canada for five years for giving false names and birth dates for herself and her two children ...

Through its partnership with SOMWA and Somali authorities, UNESCO pledged to continue supporting freedom of expression and journalist safety - ensuring that women journalists can keep telling the ...

The word for "mother "in Somali is "hoyo." In 2018, we introduced you to a company by that name. Mariam Mohamed, who came from Somalia for college, noticed how hard it was for Somali women to get jobs ...

FGM remains a deeply rooted practice among Sudanese and Somali refugees. Though it has gone underground because of legal ...

GAROWE, Dec 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland said on Thursday it had cancelled its first women's football tournament as it fell foul of Islamic values, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge in Minnesota reinstated contempt charges Tuesday for a Somali woman who cited religious beliefs when she refused to stand for the court during the first two days of ...

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 ...

It is eight o’clock in the morning. As punctual as ever, Jamila Ali Hassan, 30, opens the creaking door of the Dairy Retail Cooperative in the Melkadida refugee camp, ready to receive the farmers who ...

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today launched a new report titled "Targeted Online, Unsafe Offline: Gender-Based Violence and Impunity Against Women Journalists in Somalia", ...

IBANDA, Uganda (AP) – A military instructor clad in fatigues and boots who barks out orders to men half her age has become the unlikely star of a European Union program to train thousands of Somali ...