By Ridwan Ali & Setareh Jalali (Tarjumaadda Soomaalida halkan guji) This week for our news show, we’re doing something a little different. Our host, Ridwan Ali, was sick this week, so we decided rather than not post any news, we…
By Edith M. Lederer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council urged Somalia’s government on Friday to organize elections “without delay” in a resolution that stressed the pressing threat to the country’s security from al-Shabab and armed opposition groups.…
By Andrew Rice LEWISTON, Maine — Ever since the first COVID-19 vaccines became available, Abdikhadar Shire has been urging people to get their shot when the time came. Shire is executive director of the Lewiston nonprofit AK Health and Social…
By Gabrielle Mannino AUGUSTA, Maine — In a press conference on Friday, Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced the state is adopting an age-based strategy for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and announced Maine residents age 60 and older will be eligible starting…
by Nick Schroeder PORTLAND, Maine — Immigration advocates here sprang into high gear last week after reports from the southern border found more than a thousand migrant families with young children had been released into the U.S. by border agents. The Biden…
By Molly O'Toole and Molly Hennessy-Fiske Border officials are set next week to start processing asylum seekers in California and Texas who were forced back across the border under a controversial Trump-era policy that President Joe Biden pledged to end,…
By Joanna Kakissis Stuck on a stalled motorized inflatable raft in the open sea, 15-year-old Tsedal began to panic. She and the other passengers, more than 60 migrants from the African countries of Eritrea and Sudan, had set off from neighboring…
By Elizabeth Clemente Many things changed in Abdullahi Ali’s life when he came to Maine after growing up for nearly two decades in Kenyan refugee camps. An unexpected shift, however, came in how he viewed mental health. Ali, a native…
By Nomaan Merchant HOUSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has deported hundreds of immigrants in its early days despite his campaign pledge to stop removing most people in the U.S. illegally at the beginning of his term. A federal…
By Evan Popp Leaders in the Maine immigrant community came together in an online meeting Wednesday to celebrate the end of former President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and to discuss how the policy impacted them, members of their community and…