26/04/2014
Family ties protect Somalis in Minn.
MANKATO, Minn. ? Nasra Ibrahim had it easy, relatively speaking, when she fled from her home in Mogadishu, Somalia. Her city began to crumble during the early 1990s when political unrest turned into tribal fighting before exploding into a violent civil war. She was able to escape quickly by boarding a passenger jet and flying to Kenya, but she's heard the horrible stories about the dangers other refugees faced. Many of those stories are told to her by other Somalians living in the Mankato area. Some people walked for weeks to escape the violence. Ibrahim's friend, Fatima Salah, rode inside a car full of people, including a few who road on top, to make the trip to Kenya. With Ibrahim...
