There are many things that separate Hawa Juma, a 25-year-old Utica resident and first generation Somali Bantu, from her parents, who arrived in Utica in the early 2000s to escape the country's war.

The Somali Bantu community in Pittsburgh is small but organized. Refugees began arriving in the city from camps along the Somali border in the early 2000s. Members of the community started the ...

(Columbia) Feb. 24, 2004 - The first Somali Bantu refugee to arrive in Columbia, Abdulkadir Mohamed, will have a lot of adjusting to do now that he's arrived. Lutheran Family Services is overseeing ...

WALES, Maine — Seventy-two-year-old Ahmed Baraki leans forward, his back parallel to the ground, and vigorously rakes his “yaanbo,” or hoe, loosening the weeds that cluster around the young cabbage ...

Not all of the Somali refugees who've come to Maine in the past few years share the same culture. About 500 of them belong to a group of rural farmers who were persecuted as second-class citizens in ...

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The Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine in Lewiston has moved from a small rental space to a much larger building it now owns. “We always needed a big space,” said Muhidin Libah, the ...

When Jeylani Noor moved to the United States in 2004, he spoke only a few words of English. The native of Somalia, then 16, had difficulty understanding his classmates and teachers in school. But now ...

A fire at a housing complex in Burlington late Saturday morning and a fatal car crash about two hours later have shocked the local Somali and Somali Bantu communities. The tragedies, both involving ...

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Syracuse, NY.-----The Somali Bantu community has created a tutoring program to teach adults English and help their children with homework. The class meets on Saturday mornings at Dr. Martin Luther ...

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