They are called the Somali Bantu. Most lived in villages without running water or electricity, and many are illiterate in their own language. On this week's Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks ...

In the case of one of the newest murals to be painted on the city’s West Side, the message represents the incredible journeys of Buffalo’s Somali Bantu community. Located on the side of 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 ...

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 ...

Since May 2003, IOM has facilitated the movement of 304 Somali-Bantu families or 1,427 individuals from Kenya to the US. In March, it plans to organize three more charter flights for 750 more of ...

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 ...