Bashir Ahmed has just one memory about moving into his family's new Columbus apartment 16 years ago: the sounds of police sirens and gunfire. A new American arrival, then-8-year-old Bashir wondered if ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...