Kenyans from across Minnesota will gather in Brooklyn Center on Saturday for a festival to celebrate Madaraka Day, the day in 1963 when Kenya attained self-rule and ceased to be a British colony.
Madaraka, which in Kiswahili means “self-governance,” is a Kenyan national holiday celebrated every year on June 1.
The first half of the new festival known as Kenya Fest...
St. Paul, Minn. - U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, filed for re-election Monday morning accompanied by supporters and DFL state chair Ken Martin.
This will be Rep. Omar’s fourth time running for Minnesota’s fifth congressional district.
" I am excited to file for reelection to continue building on the progress and to continue to deliver for the Fifth," said Rep. Omar.
The...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday expressed deep appreciation to Kenyan President William Ruto for the coming deployment of Kenyan police forces to help quell gang violence in Haiti and he defended his decision to withhold American forces from the mission in the beleaguered Caribbean nation.
The United States has agreed to contribute $300 million to a multinational...
For children caught in the middle of the 1994 Rwanda genocide that killed over 800,000 people, a book in their hands made a world of difference. For the Rwandan ambassador to the United States, Mathilde Mukantabana, there were instances in her life during the genocide that the few books she could get hold of as she moved between countries...
It was a session of modest ambitions.
After 2023 produced a record $72 billion in biennial funding, Minnesota’s legislative leaders were dampening expectations for anything resembling an encore. Tweaks and bonding seemed to be the chief items on the agenda.
Before the session started, House Speaker Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) said, “The state’s borrowing bill will be the biggest order of...
History was made on Monday when a conference committee to iron out differences between the Minnesota House and Senate versions of a bill to modify residential housing tenant and landlord provisions met. For the first time it was being chaired by two Black women, one of Nigerian descent and the other Somali.
Before a bill can be sent to the...
The conference committee on a bill to modify residential housing tenant and landlord provisions reached an agreement Monday.
The proposed legislation would, among other things, protect victims of domestic and sexual violence from housing discrimination and further limit other forms of tenant discrimination.
Rep. Esther Agbaje (DFL-Mpls) and Sen. Zaynab Mohamed (DFL-Mpls) sponsor HF3591/SF3492* that would allow tenants to organize, seek...
Democrats in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District on Saturday endorsed U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar for reelection in an unprecedented style – it was the first time in her congressional career that she received the local party unit’s nod in the first round.
She first ran in 2018 and has won the endorsement in subsequent reelection bids, but it has required multiple...
Rwanda’s ambassador to the United States, Mathilde Mukantabana, will deliver the keynote address at the annual Books for Africa fundraising luncheon on Friday, May 10 in Roseville, Minn.
Books for Africa is the world’s largest shipper of donated books to Africa, and Ambassador Mukantabana’s address is the first major event for the organization since its 35th anniversary celebration last September.
Over...
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda on Tuesday criticized the west and institutions such as the World Bank for having their priorities upside down when it comes to economic development in Africa.
The president was speaking at the World Bank’s International Development Association summit for African Heads of state in Nairobi.
The president was speaking at the World Bank’s International Development Association...
317,000 former students of the now defunct for-profit Art Institutes woke up Wednesday to news that President Biden has ordered the federal government to cancel $6.1 billion they owed.
“Today, my Administration is approving $6.1 billion in student debt cancellation for 317,000 borrowers who attended the Art Institutes,” Biden said in a statement.
The president in his statement said Art Institutes,...