somalia

Relates the story, in graphic novel format, of Somali athlete Samia Yusuf Omar, who overcame great odds to represent her country in the 2008 Olympics and died in the process of trying to do the same in 2012.

Navies of the world have united against a common enemy -- thousands of rag-tag underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean. Crammed into open boats and armed with ancient AK-47's, these pirates travel up to one thousand miles from their home shores of Somalia. No one knows how many die at sea. But occasionally they hit the jackpot, ransoming crews and vessels for millions of dollars.

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.

This modern-day pirate tale details the recent hijacking and daring rescue of the Maersk Alabama and places its gripping story in context with the evolution of piracy on the high seas.

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.

Tells the story of the descent of Somalia into civil war through the entwined lives of three women in Hargeisa.

Sarah Thebarge, a female cancer survivor, befriends a family of displaced Somali refugees, battling cultural barriers and sharing their struggle for survival to establish unlikely love and friendship.