After competing for Somalia in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Samia Yusuf Omar was determined to return to the track at the 2012 London Games. Yet there is no happy ending to this remarkable young woman’s ...
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) - When teenage Somalian sprinter Samia Yusuf Omar competes in the women's 200m in Beijing, her mother and six siblings in Mogadishu plan to find a neighbour with a television ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – An official says one of Somalia’s best female athletes drowned after the small boat she was riding in capsized off the Libyan coast during an attempted crossing to Italy for ...