Tag: Abdi Warsame
Jamal Osman wins Minneapolis City Council Sixth Ward seat
Jamal Osman is the new Minneapolis Sixth Ward City Council following Tuesday's special election after the city released unofficial results this morning. The city...
Meet the Minneapolis Sixth Ward candidates, special election is August 11
Mshale reached out to the candidates that have officially filed to fill the vacant Minneapolis Sixth Ward seat and asked them to respond to...
Abdi Warsame becomes first Somali to lead a government agency in...
Minneapolis City Council Member Abdi Warsame was on Wednesday unanimously voted in by the board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority to be the...
North Central and Maakhir become sister universities
North Central University in Minneapolis and Maakhir University located in the semi-autonomous federal state of Puntland in Somalia have entered into a “sister university"...
Minneapolis dedicates Samatar Crossing
Minneapolis welcomed a new connection between the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood and downtown Minneapolis, a pathway called Samatar Crossing, with a ribbon cutting celebration on site....
Council Member Warsame’s former aide, Abdi Salah, takes new position in...
New Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey was sworn in last week and his office has announced the appointment of Abdi Salah as his Senior Policy...
Africans make gains in Minnesota elections
Africans made gains in elective office on election day Tuesday in Minnesota. This being an off year election there were no statewide elections on...
Minneapolis Mayor delivers State of the City address at a mosque,...
Mayor Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis held her State of the City address at the Masjid An-Nur in Minneapolis, the first time the address has...
Highly anticipated opportunity center opens in Cedar Riverside
After two years in the making, the Cedar Riverside Opportunity Center opened this past Sunday, March 12th, with a ceremony drawing nearly one-hundred people....
Rep. Ilhan Omar leads community leaders in denouncing Trump executive order...
Less than a week into his presidency Donald Trump has signed a whirlwind of executive actions, the latest of which is a ban that...
Immigrants: Past, Present and Potential
The Immigrant has a special place in our national psyche. The story of the downtrodden coming to these shores, escaping religious and/or political persecution,...