PODCAST: Somali refugee farmers put down new roots in rural US
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Refugee farmers who grew up cultivating crops in Somalia have returned to the land, albeit in the United States, decades after fleeing their country’s civil war.
They’ve been resettled in the US state of Maine after living for years in UN-supported refugee camps in Kenya.
They are among thousands of Somalis who fled persecution and conflict in the Horn of Africa country who benefitted from resettlement programmes in third countries like the US.
For this latest Lid is On podcast from UN News, Daniel Dickinson reports from Maine.
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