A famous young female Somali painter is speaking through her paintings across Somalia, and people are noticing. Nujuum Hashi Ahmed’s paintings are about the day to day life of the common Somali ...

FILE - Somali women who fled drought-stricken areas build shelters near Mogadishu, Somalia, Feb. 4, 2022. International Women's Day on March 8, 2025, honors women worldwide for their resilience ...

Some women in Somalia have found work in its male-dominated construction industry, proving that skill, not gender, determines ...

Somali women who fled drought-stricken areas start to build shelters at a makeshift camp on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Feb. 4, 2022. Share ...

Somali Americans will be making history in Maine’s Legislature after Mana Abdi and Deqa ... 26, is seen on Oct. 6, 2022, in Lewiston, Maine. Abdi is one of two Somali women elected to the ...

Somalia has a 54-member parliament with 14 parliamentary seats occupied by women, representing 25.93 per cent, more than eight times higher than Nigeria’s parliament with 3.67 per cent female ...

After years of conflict, which left Somalia flagging without a functional central government, Somali women are taking charge of the country’s destiny by supporting the lives of millions of people.

Like Abdi, 26-year-old Munira Abdullahi is all but guaranteed to be the first Somali woman and first Muslim woman to serve in the Ohio Legislature because she, too, is unopposed.