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Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
It is an image Udbi Wallin cannot forget.
An elderly blind woman sits alone under a makeshift shelter of twigs and cloth in a camp for refugees of the recent violence in Somalia. She has no food. Her only daughter has abandoned her — choosing to leave rather than watch her mother starve to death.
One woman is making Minnesota history after only being in this country for a few years. Muna Noor is one of the first Somali students ever admitted to prestigious Carleton College in Northfield. Noor had to overcome a lot to get there.
“I came to Minnesota and everything was a discovery,” said Noor.
She and her family escaped a life of hardship in Eastern Africa when she was just 16.
“Civil war, displacement, refugee camps, settlement and then coming to America,” said Noor. Click here for more
Amin Amir’s colourful cartoons provides us with vivid and complex picture of its nature and origin. As the saying goes: “A single image or picture is worth more than thousand words.” Amin’s cartoons highlight again, and again the unfortunate situation in Somalia and soon every major website and newspaper reproduced them, mostly in their front pages, to satisfy the readers’ seemingly insatiably appetite for news from the old home, now in ruins. And one of the best tools to help put smiles (and sometimes shock) on our faces is Amin’s political, social and economic cartoons.(banadir)
Hawa Aden Mohamed honored for her work with women and girls affected by violenceNEW YORK—Somali women’s rights activist Hawa Aden Mohamed has been selected to receive the prestigious 2008 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award for international human rights defenders, Human Rights First announced today.Criteria upon which the Baldwin Medal is awarded include distinctiveness and effectiveness of the nominee’s human rights advocacy and the degree to which the nominee faces risk as a result of their work. The Awardee receives a trip to the United States to engage in advocacy and US$25,000. Read more »
A group of teens from the Somali Community will participating in a Somali fashion show featuring some of their traditional dress pictured from left are Naimo Abdirahman 17, Muna Hussein 16, Hibaq Mohamed 16, Kaltuma Janay 16,Shamis Yonis 16, Hawo Abdille 18 and Mulki Yonis 18. Read more »
This was part of Limit to Submission (Documentary), We post this clip to show you how a nomad housewife takes care of her house and how she deals with her husband. Language Somali Subtitled
Amran Abocar is Canadian treasury editor, based in Toronto. A Somali-Canadian citizen, she has worked for Reuters since 1998 and is temporarily based in Dubai. In the following story she recounts experiences of the roads in the most congested city in the Middle East. By Amran Abocar
