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Inside the secret Somalia rehab camp for former Shabab members

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA—The 30-year-old sitting in the home of Somalia’s Minister of Internal Security is a wanted man. There is a U.S. warrant for his arrest and a $50,000 reward for information leading to his capture and conviction. Liban Haji Mohamed is charged with providing material support and resources to Al...

Inside the secret Somalia rehab camp for former Shabab members

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA—The 30-year-old sitting in the home of Somalia’s Minister of Internal Security is a wanted man. There is a U.S. warrant for his arrest and a $50,000 reward for information leading to his capture and conviction. Liban Haji Mohamed is charged with providing material support and resources to Al...

Utah business, refugee leaders urge community to hire refugees

SALT LAKE CITY — For Aden Batar, a Somali refugee, getting his first job after he was resettled of Utah in 1994 meant two things: He could pay his family's bills and he would not have to go on public assistance.Although he was college educated, Batar's first job in the...

Somali camel traders pay the price of war in Syria

With markets in the Middle East paralysed by war, Somali traders say their livelihoods are at risk of collapse. Elasha Biyaha, Somalia - It is Wednesday morning in a tea shop made of sticks and tarpaulin next to an expansive open air livestock market in the pop-up town of Elasha...

Man lives for over a year without a heart in his body

A patient in dire need of a heart transplant lived for 17 months with an external artificial heart he carried around in a backpack. Getting an organ transplant isn't simple. There simply aren't enough organs available to accommodate everyone who needs one. In the US alone, there are over 121,000...