Today, that dream has come true in Maine where Thanksgiving tables will be plentiful with local sweet potatoes, apples, squash, and other holiday delights grown by Somali Bantu refugees on the ...

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 ...

“Their plane has left. You are going back to Kakuma.” Hussein is one of scores of Somali Bantu refugees who say their dreams of relocating to the United States were shattered when immigration ...

founder of the Somali Bantu Diverse Center, an organization that helps the Somali Bantu community, a Somali ethnic group, with resettlement. “Somali parents are always shocked about seeing their ...

One swept east to Ethiopia and Somalia and intermingled with the populations there starting about 1500 years ago. About 10 percent of the DNA of Bantu speakers in the area comes from other East ...

The Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA) provided critical funding to groups like the Cultivating Community in Portland and the Somali Bantu Community Association in ...

Authorities in Tanzania say they will grant citizenship to thousands of Somali Bantu refugees. Tanzania's Deputy Home Affairs Minister, John Chiligati, told BBC News Online on Wednesday that the move ...

(Bantu-speaking people include some 400 distinct minority ethnic groups in two dozen countries in central, southwestern and southern Africa, including Somalia.) “There's been a lot of requests ...