Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar is on the edge of making history in American politics on Tuesday when she is favored to take a seat in U.S Congress and becomes the first former refugee and the first woman from Africa to join the House of Representatives. Omar says using politics to make a positive impact and expand democracy is important to her. Abdulaziz Osman reports from Minneapolis. Rob Raffaele narrates.
Muslim Minnesota candidate Mohamud Noor, who is seeking a seat in the state's legislature says the aim of seeking public office is to have people who can fight for the community.
Clerics told congregation that voting is the only way to make a change
Mosques in the Midwest U.S. state of Minnesota are urging worshipers and people of color to vote in Tuesday's midterm elections. The move is part of a last pitch to voters as local candidates try to swing voter support to help reshape the country.
Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo began a historic three-day visit to Asmara on Saturday
Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo begins a three-day visit to Eritrea to hold talks with his counterpart Isaias Afwerki in Asmara
Majority of those affected live in Minnesota, home to nation's largest community of Somali-Americans
At least six people are killed in two assaults near the presidential palace, according to witnesses
More than 15 people have been killed and more than two dozen others were wounded in two assaults on the compound of Somalia's interior and security ministries
Militants begin raid on Bali-Khadar base at midnight; sources say Puntland soldiers stationed there retreated but later recaptured base
US military statement assesses that no civilians were killed in the strike, southwest of Mogadishu
Somali government forces, backed by US forces, carried out the rescue
Best Buy starting after-school training programs in Minneapolis for East Africans
Somali cabinet defended transfer of Abdikarim Sheikh Muse, saying it was done under deal reached in 2015 that designates ONLF and al-Shabab as terrorist groups, but report says deal wasn't struck at federal level
A Somali military official tells VOA at least 13 militants were killed when a drone missile hit militants in Basra village in the Lower Shabelle region
Saturday's explosions come two weeks after enormous blast killed at least 358 people
Blast near Zobe may have been a suicide bomb, police official tells VOA; a Somali lawmaker who sustained a slight wound from blast tells VOA that more than 100 people, most civilians, have died in explosion
Three airstrikes target militants in Jilib, south of Mogadishu
At least three people hurt as auto explodes on Maka al-Mukaramah, Mogadishu's busiest street, minutes after it was stopped by intel forces
Hours earlier, a car bomb blew up in the center of Mogadishu, killing at least three civilians
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