U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented this year's U.S. State Department Foreign Service National of the Year award to Muna Mohamed who works at the U.S. embassy in Somalia.
Secretary Blinken presented the award to Ms. Mohamed while in Nairobi during the secretary's three-nation tour to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.
According to the state department’s Foreign Affairs Manual, the foreign...
South African scientists identified a new version of the coronavirus this week that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province. It’s unclear where the new variant actually arose, but it was first detected by scientists in South Africa and has now been seen in travelers to Belgium, Botswana, Hong...
This article was originally published in the American Ambassadors Review. Mshale has republished it with their permission.
On the same day President Joseph Biden laid out his vision for global engagement at the U.S. State Department, he also extended greetings to the 34th Summit of the African Union (AU). That Africa popped up on the President’s radar screen so early...
In response to surging coronavirus cases even among the fully vaccinated due to waning immunity, Minnesota health officials were set to recommend all adults get vaccine boosters starting Friday, November 19 even if federal regulators don’t do so by then.
The Delta variant is causing most of the new cases in the state.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to...
The largest university in southwestern Kenya has signed a partnership agreement that will strengthen its relationship with yet another Minnesotan institution.
Representatives from Kisii University and Minnesota State University, Mankato, signed a letter of intent at a dinner on Nov. 9. The new agreement is an expanded memorandum of understanding (MOU) the two institutions signed in 2019 to collaborate mainly...
SAINT PAUL, Minn. - Kisii University Vice Chancellor John Akama and the director of research and outreach at the university Dr. Anakalo Shitandi met on Friday with the executive director of Books for Africa Dr. Patrick Plonksi and a handful of board of directors at the book shipper’s headquarters.
The vice chancellor was accompanied by John R. Vreyens, the University...
The Minnesota Department of Commerce on Wednesday announced that Minnesotans can access greater financial assistance and newly expanded protections to keep their lights on and homes heated through the Minnesota Energy Assistance Program (EAP).
The Minnesota Energy Assistance Program helps people who own or rent their homes to pay for current and past-due bills for electricity, gas, oil, biofuel and...
Governor Walz on Wednesday announced a second skilled-nursing facility, Good Samaritan Society – Bethany in Brainerd, would act an alternative care site as part of his action plan to relive Minnesota hospitals that have become overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.
The governor’s move comes after the state facilitated the first alternative care site last week when Benedictine St. Gertrude’s in Shakopee...
A nonprofit founded in memory of Philando Castile has donated $50,000 to settle debt families still owe to the school lunch program of the Osseo Area Schools District and Brooklyn Community Schools in suburban Minneapolis. Each will receive $25,000.
“I am still trying to wrap my head around why we still have lunch debt,” Valerie Castile, Philando’s mother, said in...
The December 20, 2021 deadline for Liberians living in the US who qualify for permanent residency to apply for a green card under the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness program (LRIF) is fast approaching and U.S. immigration officers will hold an information session in Brooklyn Park on Sunday, November 7 at Greater Praise Ministries from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The...
By Tom Gitaa and Al McFarlane
The nation’s eyes were on Tuesday’s Minneapolis municipal elections for a ballot measure that sought to create a new department of public safety and place the Minneapolis Police Department under it. That ballot measure failed with only 43% of voters supporting it.
However, people of color who have borne the brunt of the city’s police...
