BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (Mshale) - Kenya's Majority leader in parliament, Aden Duale, gave a strong defense of Islam, describing it as a "religion of peace," saying Muslims should stand firm and articulate the true teachings of the religion in the face of efforts to associate it with terrorism.
Duale said most of the victims of terrorism are "our own people" adding...
Preparations are underway to host Kenya’s Majority Leader in parliament, Aden Duale, in the Twin Cities this weekend. He will address the large Minnesota Kenyan community in a Townhall style meeting at the Ramada on Saturday, September 19 starting at 7pm.
The “I will take a bullet for Uhuru, Ruto,” Member of Parliament for Garissa town is currently in New...
Coca-Cola executive, Alexander B. Cummings, Jr. will tomorrow (Saturday, September 12) participate in "Community Conversation" and engage Liberians in Minnesota in a Town Hall style meeting at the United Methodist Church in the City of Brooklyn Center (located between Brooklyn Boulevard and Noble).
The event is free and open to the public.
Mr. Cummings is Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative...
Last winter Samuel thought he had caught a bad cold, but after two weeks of being sick, his health took a sudden turn for the worse. Samuel, only 35 years old, started having chest pain and trouble breathing. In a panic, his wife rushed him to the hospital while his children stayed with a neighbor. At the hospital they...
United States Senator Al Franken is among a delegation of bi-partisan US senators and congregational members visiting five African countries in a bid to bolster and foster bilateral trade ties, a statement from the senator's office in Washington stated. The trip starts this weekend.
Countries to be visited by the delegation include Senegal, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Gabon, with a brief...
FORT WAYNE, Ind.- Since arriving in the United States in 2004, Sugow Said, a Somali refugee, has desired to become a U.S. citizen.
But the Saids, who fled Somalia’s murderous militias and famine in 1994, endured a decade in Kenyan refugee camps, and finally were resettled by the U.S. State Department to Fort Wayne in 2004, now find themselves ill,...
Did you know that younger teens need vaccines, too? As kids get older, the protection from some of their childhood vaccines begins to wear off. There are also new diseases that teens can come in contact with in this stage of their lives. Keep your teens healthy with the Tdap, meningococcal, HPV, and influenza vaccines.
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A marriage of two longstanding law firms has taken effect this month. The Transatlantic Law Firm, PLLC, of New Hope and Antolak Law Office of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota announced their merger with a promise to boost the capacity of the two firms' respective offices in Nairobi, Kenya and Crakow, Poland. Attorney Henry Ongeri, who founded Transatlantic, is a native...
The South African Honorary Consul in Minnesota in conjunction with Meet Minneapolis and the International Leadership Institute and other notable institutions, will host the President Mandela International Day on July 18 at the Sabathani Community Center in Minneapolis from 1pm-4pm. It is a free event and open to the public. Sabathani is located at 310 38th Street in Minneapolis.
Nelson...
There was only one general consensus among the crowd that filled the Walker Museum’s lawn for Rock The Garden’s Sunday line up, as Nigerian musician Seun Kuti and his band performed their hour long set; they sure could move! Between Kuti’s rhythmic near-spiritual jerking, and his two female dancers’ African hip shaking (that some in the audience wrongly labeled...
The Anglican Diocese of Zanzibar is moving forward with plans to complete the repair and preservation of the century-old Christ Church Cathedral and create a heritage center to display the history of slavery in Zanzibar and current human trafficking realities in East Africa and worldwide.
The church embarked on the project in October 2013 in partnership with World Monuments Fund...
