A familiar melody spilled out of Marita Schmitz’s kindergarten classroom one morning earlier this month. Inside, while sitting on a multicolor mat at the front of the room, children used their fingers ...

When Jibril Ahmed got frustrated last year and pointed a knife at his mother and two younger siblings, there were years of trauma and a lack of mental health treatment behind the violent outburst.

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely ...

ST. CLOUD — Move over, Spanish and French. St. Cloud public schools next year will be offering Somali and Ojibwe to all students as elective languages. "It just makes sense for us to have it," said ...

Soccer is the draw, but health education is the focus of a fitness program for Somali men in the Mankato area. The Somali Mankato Fitness Program, a partnership between WellShare International and ...

Ahmed Jama (left) and Munira Ahmed were two of about 40 students in the St. Cloud school district who took a yearlong Somali language course for native speakers in 2021. The two Tech High School ...

For weeks now, Sakarie Hassan has come home from kindergarten at Sullivan STEAM Magnet School eager to tell about the words he's learning to read in Somali, the language he speaks at home. He'll greet ...

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