Women's rights groups, prominent businesswomen and female politicians in Somalia are urging the country's male-dominated parliament to pass a bill reserving 30% of seats for women in next year's ...

Nearly a third of Somalia's parliamentary seats will be reserved for female lawmakers in an election next month, the prime minister said, a measure long demanded by women's rights campaigners in the ...

Hoyo now works out of a $1.6 million facility. It had a stand at the 2025 State Fair and its sambusas are served in school ...

That question echoed through the hall in Mogadishu as journalists, diplomats, and human rights advocates gathered for a one-day workshop on "Digital Safety and Gender Justice: Ending Impunity for ...

The word for "mother "in Somali is "hoyo." In 2018, we introduced you to a company by that name. Mariam Mohamed, who came ...

It is eight o’clock in the morning. As punctual as ever, Jamila Ali Hassan, 30, opens the creaking door of the Dairy Retail Cooperative in the Melkadida refugee camp, ready to receive the farmers who ...

In Rochester, a new gym is giving Muslim women a place to work out comfortably, and it could help fight rising rates of chronic illness in the Somali community.

MOGADISHU — People often laugh when Fathi Mohamed Ahmed tells them she runs the first and only all-female newsroom in Somalia, one of the most dangerous places on the planet to be a reporter. But ...

GALKAYO, Somalia (UNHCR) - Hawa Aden has been called a witch. She and her women colleagues have been labelled traitors to Somali culture and the Islamic religion, and had Friday sermons preached ...