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Clips show how Oromos were encouraged to claim Somali people and land.
This cycle of treachery repeats in Somali history: some once sided with the British, Italians, and French against their own people, surrendering our lands; now, gallas seek to take everything to the sea 🌊
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The Trump administration announced nearly $30 million in new fraud charges in Minnesota on Friday, targeting alleged schemes involving Medicaid and other taxpayer-funded programs.
FBI Director Kash Patel said four people were arrested after federal agents executed 17 search warrants Thursday. The arrests were tied to a 26-count indictment involving more than $41 million in alleged Medicaid fraud.
Federal prosecutors also said 13 defendants have been charged, convicted or sentenced since Sept. 30 in cases involving nearly $83 million in intended losses.
The new charges include allegations that providers billed Medicaid for autism therapy and home support services that were never provided. Prosecutors also accused one woman of paying parents kickbacks in exchange for submitting Medicaid claims for autism services.
“The cases highlighted today represent my office’s unwavering commitment to protect the integrity of taxpayer-funded programs,” said U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Daniel N. Rosen. “These defendants stole money meant for the vulnerable, and they will be brought to justice.”
The Justice Department said investigators have issued more than 1,000 subpoenas and executed more than 40 search warrants in Minnesota this year.
But when a reporter asked about the federal government's own spending, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed the question as a waste of time.
The reporter wanted to know why the Trump administration paid $495.6 million for a vacant prison in Appleton that its owner had offered to sell to Minnesota for $75 million just a year earlier.
"I don't know anything about that," Bessent responded. He said officials were there to prosecute criminal fraud and that questions diverting attention from that work were "a waste of our time."
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With just days until Election Day, Minnesota State Senator Zaynab Mohamed is traveling across the state campaigning with fellow Democrats, knocking on doors, connecting with voters who feel left behind and working to help her party maintain its majority in the Minnesota Senate.
Somali American voter turnout could also play a role in closely contested races, as a new generation of young Somali Americans becomes eligible to vote.
The Somali Brief followed Zaynab as she knocked on doors and spoke with voters in her district.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS. ETHIOPIA.
Radical Oromo politician and POLITICAL figure @Jawar_Mohammed INCITING genocide against SOMALIS.
JAWAR had previously called for the genocide of the AMHARA people in Ethiopia.
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This man was spotted in Hargeisa. He looks to be a high level NISS spy for Ethiopia. This is Ethiopia’s long term plan against Somalia.
Oromos should be deported from Somalia. Do not attack them do not steal their properties do not hurt them. Deport according to the law.
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"New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.
One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.
The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal." kare11.com/article/news/inve…
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Funny how Nick Shirley is nowhere to be found now. He’s happy to go after Somalis and Brown people, but when the fraud doesn’t fit the narrative he’s paid to push, he goes quiet. 👀👀
"New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.
One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.
The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal." kare11.com/article/news/inve…
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If you claim to grant rights to Somalis, remember those rights belong to them—they aren’t a favor. Somalis are not guests in Ethiopia. Your statement contains threats, but conflict harms us all and only benefits Al-Shabaab. We must work together for peace.
Arming civilians as part of a counterinsurgency strategy is only exacerbating death and destruction. This must stop! Protecting the safety and security of citizens is the responsibility of the state’s security apparatus. That responsibility must not be delegated to private citizens or clan militias.
My take on the subject during recent interview with DW
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1/2 Oromo Special Forces, Gada Commandos, OLA, federal forces and Borana militias failed to defeat the Somali civilians defending Moyale. They wrote, “What does it mean to be given an opportunity (the opportunity to take over Moyale from Somalis) and fail to use it?” This raises+
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Somali warriors from Regio Cinnamomifera (Land of Cinnamon) in the 3rd-century ancient Greek novel Aethiopica
In the novel, the men of Cinnamomifera fought in Egypt (Aswan) as expert archers, harassing Persian, Median, Egyptian and Libyan forces with javelins and poisoned arrows
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The Oromo “Galla” leadership appears to have abandoned the battlefield approach and is now turning to political and administrative manoeuvres to legitimise land claims through the federal government after failing to defeat Somalis militarily. Jawar Mohammed previously warned that the Gallas could not defeat Somalis in an armed confrontation, suggesting that the alternative was to use the political system and disarm them instead. Now, it seems they believe they can achieve through government institutions what they failed to achieve on the battlefield. But they should understand one thing using political power to undermine Somali land rights will not make Somalis surrender their land.
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I stand with @IlhanMN 🩵
ALT Omar Fateh and Ilhan Omar standing by each other with text “I stand with Ilhan”
Don’t come into someone’s land, then claim to be indigenous to their land. Don’t join the enemy militias killing your host country’s citizens. Don’t attack people on their own land.
Don’t poke the bear then cry when people push back.
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#Somali students are protesting against the failure of the Somali Ministry of Education to prioritise Somali history in schools and colleges, while foreign history is being taught first. I swear to God, how on earth is foreign history considered more important than our own? 🇸🇴 This is a shocking failure of the Ministry of Education. Somalia is still suffering from a form of psychological colonisation when our own students have to protest just to learn their own history, heritage and identity.
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🇪🇺🇸🇴EU-Somalia trade and investment
Somalia is one of 33 African countries that can export to the EU duty free and quota free under Everything But Arms, which has no expiry date. This provides a strong incentive for Somali businesses to grow.
#EUinSomalia #EUAU #AUEU
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Honestly, what on earth is wrong with this Ministry of Education? The old Somali curriculum is already there, and it’s genuinely refreshing to read! How incompetent can a minister be to overlook what we already have? All they had to do was update it where necessary and let Somali teachers review and improve it. Simple! Why on earth are we relying on a Western curriculum when we have our own? Is our own history, knowledge and identity not good enough for us? This is a complete failure of leadership. A minister who cannot preserve and improve our own educational system has no business running the Ministry of Education. Stop neglecting our heritage and start investing in Somali education!
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Kenyans were busy mocking Somalis, but that didn’t age well! Where are all those Kenyans who were shouting about fraud now? Suddenly, everyone has gone quiet!
🚨 BREAKING: The Trump DOJ uncovered a MULTIMILLION dollar student loan fraud scheme perpetrated in part by KENYANS in America
These Kenyans were STEALING American identities, applying for student loans, then sending that money back to KENYA
SEND THEM ALL BACK. We DO NOT need these people here.
Multiple Kenyans have now been indicted by federal grand juries on SEVERAL federal charges, including theft of government money and aggravated identity theft.
American victims — some of which never went to college — were victims of this scheme, had their identities stolen, and their credit absolutely WRECKED.
These third worlders are absolute scumbags.