Kenya is a land of great diversity in its people and culture. It has about 42 tribes divided into three main language groups: Bantu-speaking, Nilotic-speaking, and Cushitic-speaking tribes. Bantus ...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo. Nation/World. Bantus face high hurdles in modern, strange land ...

About 12,000 of the Somali minority group are preparing to leave refugee camps in Kenya where they have stayed for the past 10 years. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

On Monday, a convoy of 292 Somali Bantu refugees left Kenya's Dadaab camp on a 1,500-km journey to Kakuma camp, joining 276 others who had left on the first convoy last Thursday. In all, some 11,800 ...

When that country collapsed into civil war in 1991, thousands of Bantu fled across the border to refugee camps in Kenya. Last year, they began their longest journey yet -- across the ocean to America.

Press Release - The last 807 Somali Bantu refugees scheduled for resettlement in the US will leave the Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border for Kakuma in northwestern Kenya next week.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is due to begin transporting some 11,000 Somali Bantu refugees living in Dadaab refugee camps in northeastern Kenya to Kakuma refugee camp in the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 22 (UNHCR) - After years of hoping for a new life, the first groups of Somali Bantu refugees have left Kenya for the United States in one of the biggest resettlement operations to ...