Her story is the stuff of fiction: the daughter of Somali desert nomads, Waris (“desert flower” in Somali) Dirie fled her family when she was about 13 to escape marriage to a man old enough to ...

At a glance, the desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years.

Shugri Said Salh recounts her journey from goat- and camel-herding nomad in Somalia to nurse and mom of three in California in her memoir, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert.

The nomad was thirsty, and the journey into the Somali desert would be long and taxing. We've detected you are on Internet Explorer. For the best Barrons.com experience, please update to a modern ...

Shugri Said Salh recounts her journey from goat- and camel-herding nomad in Somalia to nurse and mom of three in California in her memoir, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert.

Desert locusts are destroying tens of thousands of hectares of crops and grazing land in Somalia in the worst invasion in 25 years, the United Nations food agency said on Wednesday, and the ...

As the last person in her family to learn and live the desert nomad ways of her Somali culture, Shugri Salh spent pivotal years of her youth under the guidance, love, and protection of her “a… ...

GAROWE, Somalia (AP) — At a glance, the desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa in the worst outbreak some ...