Mogadishu's rapid expansion after decades of war is giving unexpected opportunities in a male-dominated society.

BORAMA, Somalia, April 15 (UNHCR ... persons - UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers today announced that the 60-year-old Italian woman has been selected as this year's recipient of the ...

It is unusual for Somali women to be the primary storytellers ... they are finding their voice in colonial languages such as Italian and English that they have made their own.

with funding from the Italian government. ADEP works to protect the rights of Somali immigrants in Italy and to empower women in Somalia. "Women are the ones in charge of the households while the ...

Two Italian Somali women, the anthropologist and former politician Maryan Ismail and the engineer and immigrant rights activist Layla Yusuf, founded the Movement of Secular Muslims on April 5.

Russian women in Malta heavily outnumber their male counterparts, a situation that is reversed in the Somali and Italian communities. Three out of every four Russian residents are women ...

In Friday's issues, photographs depict what the magazine says is an Italian soldier raping a Somali woman. Other charges against Italian troops came to light a week ago and follow similar scandals ...

Gunmen have shot dead a 65-year-old Italian nun and her bodyguard at a hospital in Somali capital, Mogadishu. The attackers shot the nun three times in the back at the women and children's hospital in ...

Italian Settler Passoni ... his Land-Rover narrowly outdistancing a mob of 1,000 men, women and children. In Kenya itself, a Somali tribesman speared a district commissioner, Lieut.