Somalia, supported by the United Nations, celebrated the International Day for Women in Maritime on Sunday, with an event ...

The life of former supermodel Waris Dirie, who was born into a nomadic Somali clan in 1965 ... She found refuge at a women’s hostel and got a job as a cleaner in a fast-food restaurant.

She said she covered the story of nomad women who defy al-Shabab and ... Farhia Mohamed Kheyre who chairs the Somali Women Journalists Organization says women have to deal with other obstacles ...

Women who own businesses are driving the growth of Karmel Square at the corner of Pillsbury Avenue and Lake Street. The mall is probably the largest collection of Somali businesses in the U.S ...

Of the new nations born last week, none faced bleaker prospects than the Somali Republic. Combining the former Italian and British colonies on Africa’s horn, the country is largely a desert ...

If there were a “Ms. Globalization” title, it might well go to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali woman who wrote the ... more people in yet another memoir. “Nomad” argues that Islam creates ...

️ To receive our weekly Women Worldwide newsletter, Click here. As the ambulances drove by the hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, where the beauty contest was being held, and the ...

Mogadishu — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud hosted an iftar event on Saturday to honor Somali women leaders on International Women's Day, praising their vital role in the fight against Al ...

"It is tone-deaf for the Somali government to have men on the frontline, representing women at the conference," Fathiya Absie, a well-known Somali author and human rights activist, told the BBC.