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.

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 ...

Some West Side residents are displaying a classic case of "not in my backyard" syndrome when it comes to an influx of Somali Bantu. That's disappointing at best and appalling at worst. As Assemblyman ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 22 (UNHCR) - After years of hoping for a new life, the first groups of Somali Bantu refugees have left Kenya for the United States in one of the biggest resettlement operations to ...

Somali Bantu refugees in Salt Lake City are experiencing the American holiday season for the first time. They find the excitement of Christmas... An Immigrant's First American Christmas: Somali Bantus ...