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Abdi Warsame becomes first Somali to lead a government agency in Minnesota
Minneapolis City Council Member Abdi Warsame was on Wednesday unanimously voted in by the board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority to be the...
Abdi Warsame becomes first African-born Minneapolis City Council member
Abdi Warsame today (Nov. 5) became the first person born in Africa to become a Minneapolis City Council member. He beat incumbent Robert Lilligren...
Council Member Warsame’s former aide, Abdi Salah, takes new position in Mayor Jacob Frey’s...
New Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey was sworn in last week and his office has announced the appointment of Abdi Salah as his Senior Policy...
Ilhan Omar can learn lessons from missteps of Minneapolis Council Member Warsame
Back in 2014, I wrote about how Minnesota's House 60B is different from Minneapolis City Council Ward 6. The objective of the essay was to...
Councilman Warsame to launch exclusive column in Mshale
The first Somali-American to win a municipal election in the United States, Councilman Abdi Warsame of Minneapolis, will debut a new column called “Councilman's...
Somali professionals propel Warsame to top tier of money getters in race for Minneapolis...
Cab drivers, IT workers and a host of the self-employed have catapulted Minneapolis City Council candidate Abdi Warsame to the top tier of candidates...
How a Somali rapper became the ‘Face of Africa’
Most people with any interest in soccer know that the FIFA World Cup was held for the first time in Africa in 2010 in South Africa. While Mother Africa was disappointed that one of her teams did not win the cup, it was nonetheless not a total loss for Africa. The event did popularize two things African: The loud vuvuzelas and a little-known Somali rapper named Keinan 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...
Minneapolis Sixth Ward Special Election: How Ranked Choice Voting works
Minneapolis first adopted ranked choice voting, a largely unfamiliar and controversial system, for the 2009 city election. It has been used to elect officials...
Mshale to host Minneapolis City Council virtual candidates forum
Mshale will host a virtual candidate forum on Thursday, July 16 ahead of the special election for the Minneapolis City Council Ward 6 seat....
Minneapolis city council candidate Mohamoud Hassan drops out of race
A large field of candidates for the vacant Minneapolis City Council Sixth Ward has shrank by one as Mohamoud Hassan, a Somali-American activist announced...