Somali Women

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  Islamist Motive 'Likely' In Deadly German Knife Attack: Investigators

  German investigators said Tuesday they suspected an Islamic extremist motive behind a knife attack last week by a Somali man that left three women dead in the southern city of Wuerzburg.

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  Somali Refugee, Palestine Immigrant: First 2 Muslim Women In US Congress

  A onetime Somali refugee and the daughter of Palestinian immigrants shared the historic distinction Tuesday of becoming the first two Muslim women elected to the US Congress. Both women -- Ilhan Omar, 37, and Rashida Tlaib, 42 -- are Democrats from the Midwest and outspoken advocates of minority communities that have found themselves in the sights ...

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  Two Muslim Women Hope To Enter US Congress In Midterm Polls

  US voters are poised to elect two Muslim women to Congress in the midterm election next week, marking a historic first even as anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric has been on the rise. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee, is all but certain to be elected to the US House of Representatives in a heavily-Democratic district in the Midwestern state of Min...

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  Somali Islamists Warn Against 'Immoral Culture' at Hotels, Beaches

  Islamist militants al Shabaab issued a warning against Somalis who frequent hotels, beaches and nightclubs in the capital Mogadishu, saying it will target men and women who engage in "immoral culture."

• Seven Somali women Killed in 'Barbaric' Attacks: Elders

  At least seven women have been killed in "barbaric" attacks in Somalia after Al Shabaab insurgents beheaded a soldier's wife, prompting revenge executions of women close to the Islamists, elders said today.

• UN-Funded African Troops Raped Vulnerable Somalis: Human Rights Watch

  Internationally-funded African Union troops in war-torn and impoverished Somalia have raped women and traded food aid for sex, Human Rights Watch said in a damning report on Monday.

• Women Soldiers Join the Army Ranks in Somalia

  With an AK47 automatic rifle slung over her shoulder, Naeemo Abdi frisks people coming into a Mogadishu police station.

• Somali woman helping rape victims wins United Nations award

  Hawa Aden Mohamed won the United Nations refugee agency's Nansen Refugee Award on Tuesday for her work in helping thousands of Somali women and girls, many of them rape victims, start new lives in their battered homeland.

• Somali women fleeing famine preyed on by rapists

  Refugee Barwago Mohamud huddles silently beneath a few blankets stretched over sticks at night, fearing for her life after a neighbor was raped, and a naked woman who had been kidnapped and gang-raped for three days in front of her terrified children was delivered to the medical tent next door.

• Somali Islamists ban men, women from shaking hands

  Al-Qaida-linked militants in war-torn southern Somalia have banned unrelatedmen and women from shaking hands, speaking or walking together in public, residents said today. People who break the rules could be imprisoned, whipped or even executed.The insurgents already have banned women from working in public, leaving many mothers with a terrible cho...