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Karoline Leavitt, Ilhan Omar, Donald Trump, theGrio.com
December 1, 2025
After the shooting of two National Guard troops, Trump escalated his rhetoric on immigration, specifically calling out Somalians in Minnesota.
Trump Somalia
February 1, 2025
The U.S. military conducted airstrikes against the Islamic State in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation in Trumps…
January 19, 2024
EU, AU, and the U.S. say the Sudan war and Somalia's tension with Ethiopia threaten the Horn of Africa's stability.
November 30, 2023
Somalia’s maritime police force intensified patrols in the Gulf of Aden following a failed pirate hijacking of a ship earlier…
November 23, 2023
Flooding in Somalia has resulted in a state of emergency and hardships on its peoples, who have had to flee…
September 25, 2023
The death toll from a bombing attack at a government checkpoint in central Somalia has reached 21, authorities said Sunday.
July 23, 2023
Refugees receive monthly rations of sorghum, rice, beans, maize and vegetable oil, alongside a cash transfer that has been halved…
June 23, 2023
Somalia’s “dire hunger emergency” is spiraling upward with one-third of the population expected to face crisis or worse levels of…
April 30, 2023
One of the Somalis evacuated on Sunday said in an interview that she was happy to be alive and back…
February 23, 2023
Trends in a historic Horn of Africa drought are now worse than they were during the 2011 drought in which at least…
January 17, 2023
The head of the World Food Program says support from donors have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely…
October 5, 2022
In Somalia, a nation of poets, droughts are named for the kind of pain they bring. Their current one doesn't…
September 8, 2022
The U.N. humanitarian chief predicted Tuesday that at least $1 billion will be needed urgently to avert famine in Somalia in the…
September 5, 2022
When famine was declared in parts of Somalia in 2011, the deaths of a quarter-million people were well underway.
Somalian mother and child, theGrio.com
June 8, 2022
Drought in Horn of Africa is the worst in four decades and is responsible for hundreds of deaths, particularly of…
February 23, 2022
Fueled by immigrant growth, fewer people in U. S. are identifying as Black or African American, research finds.
Almaas Elman theGrio.com
November 22, 2019
Social justice activist Almaas Elman was murdered in the capital of Somalia on Wednesday. Elman was a brave woman that…
Ethiopia thegrio.com
September 6, 2018
Ethiopian, Eritrean and Somalia leaders are set to meet in Eritrea's capital Asmara, furthering the diplomatic thaw in the strategic…
Somalia thegrio.com
August 2, 2018
Eritrea and Somalia have agreed to restore diplomatic relations, both countries announced Monday in another thaw in the restive Horn…
Ilhan Omar thegrio.com AP
June 11, 2018
Ilhan Omar became the nation's first and only Somali-American lawmaker when she won a seat in the Minnesota House.