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America's Somali Bantu

Tim Mansel reports from Boise in the United States on a community of Somali Bantu refugees who have settled there and made a new life for themselves.

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled from Somalia since civil war broke out there in the early 1990s.
Many of them go to refugee camps in Kenya, others to Tanzania - and many have spent more than 15 years living in those camps. But one group has been more fortunate than others - the Somali Bantu, whose ancestors were taken to Somalia as slaves from southern Africa in the 19th Century.
In 2001 the Somali Bantu were recognised as an especially vulnerable group by the United States and two years later 12,000 of them were airlifted out of the camps and flown to new, permanent homes in the United States. Assignment's Tim Mansel visits one group of them in the western city of Boise in Idaho.

27 minutes

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Sun 21 Jun 2009 09:06GMT

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  • Thu 18 Jun 2009 08:06GMT
  • Thu 18 Jun 2009 12:06GMT
  • Thu 18 Jun 2009 19:06GMT
  • Fri 19 Jun 2009 00:06GMT
  • Sun 21 Jun 2009 09:06GMT

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