In 2015, I penned an article for the Pioneer Press titled, “Somalis are resilient Americans, not terrorists.” At the time, Minnesota’s Somali community was facing a wave of politically motivated ...

Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, has long been a target of racist insults by the president. Now her whole community faces an immigration crackdown. “We feel bad, actually, for the ...

It was the words of President Donald Trump, spoken 2,300 miles away, that prompted Mikaiil Hussein — a U.S. citizen who first came as a refugee from Somalia over 30 years ago — to take steps to ...

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The alleged "mastermind" behind Minnesota’s $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scandal tied to the Somali community is accused of wielding extraordinary power through threats and what the ...

Americans were stunned last month to learn that members of Minnesota’s Somali community had scammed state taxpayers out of hundreds of millions — possibly even billions — of dollars. The question on ...

A man who used diplomatic passports to assist several women in entering the State has been jailed for 4½ years. Abdallatif Mohamed (40), aka Hussein, used Somali diplomatic passports to help several ...

People have their photos, finger prints and details taken as they are registered to vote in a voting registration run by the National Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission poster on April 23, ...

The Land of 10,000 Lakes has found itself in the middle of a scandal, with Minnesota at the center of wide-ranging fraud allegations. While the state is hardly the first to become embroiled in such a ...

Stay informed. Sign up for Sahan Sunday, our weekly newsletter with Minnesota news you need to know. Somali immigrants have overcome displacement in war and long years spent building new lives in the ...

Screenshots of social media reels where Somali Americans humorously claim that Minnesota was promised to them 3,000 years ago. Credit: Sahan Journal When the stakes are high, access to information is ...

President Donald Trump's administration is moving to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars stolen in a massive healthcare scam in Minnesota. Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill ...