A community of Somali Bantu farmers struggled for land security until the farm justice activists of the Agrarian Trust lent a hand Muhidin Libah stretched his arm overhead, tapping the head of a corn ...

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Muhidin Libah has pushed through and beyond some daunting barriers in his life. He now helps others break down obstacles of their own in his role of executive director at the Somali Bantu Community ...

On a recent Saturday at the Little Jubba Central Maine Agrarian Commons, Ali Hamsa and Muhidin Libah took a break from building a fence around a goat pasture to share a laugh at the orneriest kid in ...

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The Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine in Lewiston has moved from a small rental space to a much larger building it now owns. “We always needed a big space,” said Muhidin Libah, the ...

Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine Executive Director Muhidin Libah paid out over $100,000 from the charity he runs to members of his family between 2023 and 2024, tax filings show. In 2023, ...

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WALES, Maine — Seventy-two-year-old Ahmed Baraki leans forward, his back parallel to the ground, and vigorously rakes his “yaanbo,” or hoe, loosening the weeds that cluster around the young cabbage ...

Libah found the leasing process confounding, filled with sudden reversals that, even with hindsight, he does not understand. Once, a landowner told Libah that he admired the work of the association ...