somalia

Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach." Eight-year-old Ali trains her, times her, and pushes her to achieve her goals. For both children, Samia's running is the bright spot in their tumultuous life in Somalia. She is talented, brave, and determined to represent her country in the Olympic Games, just like her hero, the great Somali runner Mo Farah. For the next several years, Samia and Ali train at night in a deserted stadium as war rages and political tensions continue to escalate. Despite the lack of resources, despite the war, and despite all of the restrictions imposed on Somali women, Samia becomes a world-class runner. As a teenager, she is selected to represent her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She finishes last in her heat at the Games, but the sight of the small, skinny woman in modest clothes running in the dust of athletes like Veronica Campbell-Brown brings the Olympic stadium to its feet. Samia sets her sights on the 2012 Games in London. Conditions in Somalia have worsened, and she must make the arduous migrant journey across Africa and the Mediterranean alone. Just like millions of refugees, Samia risks her life for the hope of a better future.

Petty officer Felix Pratt and Sly, a sea lion in the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, are deployed to the coast of East Africa--their mission is to assist the Navy Task Force 151 in bringing a dangerous Somali pirate to justice.

Examines the land, people, and history of Somalia and discusses its state of affairs and place in the world today.

Journalist Jay Bahadur presents a narrative expos?e on Somali pirates, discussing the history of Somalia, and describing who the pirates are, where and how they live, their treatment of hostages, how they spend the ransom money they collect, and the response of the United Nations and other international bodies to the rise in piracy in the twenty-first century.

In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu (the capital of Somalia), two-thirds of the city's population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother was murdered by militia and his father was somewhere in hiding. He was swept along in the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world. Betrayed by the people he thought would care for him, he lived his childhood in an adult world he was wary and skeptical of. He lived in the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi and the desert towns deep in the Ethiopian hinterland. By the time he was on the cusp of adulthood, he had a wide array of talents. At the age of seventeen, he was adept at being a street hustler, brokering relationships between hard-nosed businessmen and Somali refugees. He courted a famous beauty and married her. Buoyed by his success so far, he went to Johannesburg, South Africa. There he began an adventure in a country richer and more violent that he could possibly ever imagined.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Somalia"--Provided by publisher.

An autobiography of Dr. Hawa Abdi who founded a camp for displaced people from Mogadishu, Somalia saving countless women and children whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty.

An authoritative account of the Somali region, its history and the story of the Islamic extremists operating there today cites the high human cost of the region's clan-based civil war while explaining how current activities are directly threatening world security.

A collection of stories from the history and traditions of Somalia.