On the streets of Los Angeles the city seen by many as the entertainment capital of the a billboard of a Somali band is and the message on it is attracting passers by. On it is an image of Wayaaha ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Lihle Muhdin was 11 years old when he first picked up a Kalashnikov rifle, pushed into combat by an Islamist militia in Mogadishu. That was 15 years ago. Now he wields a ...

NAIROBI: Upon entering a tiny recording studio in a grimy Nairobi building, Felis removes her face veil, slides headphones onto her ears and starts singing in a high voice: “Girls are raped. Warlords ...

The Somali capital of Mogadishu is set to host its biggest music festival in over two decades The Mogadishu Music Festival is aiming to rally would-be fighters to peacefully resist extremism The ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 11 (UNHCR) - A group of Somali refugee musicians in the Kenyan capital Nairobi have ruffled a few feathers with their flouting of conservative traditions and their songs on ...

Falis Abdi Mohamed, a 26-year-old singer and member of the Nairobi-based Somali hip-hop group Waayaha Cusub, returned to Somalia in March to perform in a series of small concerts for peace as part of ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Fueled by the high-volume music and fast-talking rappers, the Somali crowd danced, shouted and sang. Mogadishu’s first music festival in decades acted as another step in moving ...