They run child care centers, health care agencies, salons, restaurants, consulting firms and retail shops. Many work two jobs ...

Every time young fashion designer Hawa Adan Hassan makes a new gown for a paying customer, she also makes her dreams come true. "My whole life, fashion design was a dream," says the 23-year-old ...

It's tough to wrap up everything that's unfolded at Hoyo Sambusa since it started a decade ago. Hoyo, which means "mother" in Somali, was founded to help empower women from Somalia. Ghita Worcester, a ...

Since its inception in 2019, Somalia's Gargaara MSME Financing Facility, supported by the World Bank and the Somalia Multi-Partner Fund (MPF), has issued more than 1,600 loans to entrepreneurs in ...