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 ...

Murals, and public art in general, are a great way to broadcast messages to the community. Rather than erecting ugly billboards that are relentlessly “in our face,” broadcasting car accident and slip ...

Nearly 12,000 Somali Bantu will be resettled in cities across the United States, in one of the nation's largest refugee resettlements in years. Malande, 39, his wife and four young children arrived in ...

Somalis in City Heights, many of them U.S. citizens, say the president’s rhetoric has created fear in the community.

The Somali Bantu Community Association of Pittsburgh estimates there are 800 to 1,000 Somali people living in Pittsburgh, the vast majority of whom are U.S. citizens. Others have green cards or are in ...

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.

When the nation-state of Somalia collapsed into a series of warring fiefdoms in the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of civilians fled for their lives. Some have since returned home, but many are ...

Two Somali Bantu political refugees were released from federal immigration detention over the weekend, after spending months in jail for their failure to apply for their legal alien resident card.

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 ...

Ahmed Baraki works in the community garden at Liberation Farms in Wales, Maine.VINCENT ALBAN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE WALES, Maine — Seventy-two-year-old Ahmed Baraki leans forward, his back parallel to ...