Africa
July 16, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Successful Transfer of Abdikerm Eidleh from Somalia to Minnesota to Face Charges for Role in Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme. A headline that I would not have thought possible as recently as last month. Eidleh is defendant No. 2 (out of 80) in the half-billion-dollar free-food scandal, and was a former employee of the nonprofit company Feeding Our Future. Since the scandal broke in
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June 27, 2026 — Bill Glahn
It would seem that Minnesota leads the nation in the production of international fugitives from justice. From the FBI’s Minneapolis field office, Our Burnsville Man was apprehended in Mogadishu, Somalia, after more than four years on the run from federal fraud charges. There is probably a Netflix miniseries embedded in that last sentence. Eidleh is Defendant No. 2 (out of 80) in the sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal, and is
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April 24, 2026 — Bill Glahn
And captured in Minnesota, no less. I wrote about the case of Said Jama Ahmed on Wednesday as he made his initial appearance in federal court in Minnesota. It turns out that Jama is a bona fide Somali pirate. The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) posted on Twitter (X) earlier today. DHS goes on to recount, This [2012] threat occurred during an encounter when the U.S.S. Halsey responded to
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April 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Lou Raguse of local KARE-11 TV (NBC) broke the story Friday morning of “Minnesota Man” Abdirashid Ismail Said, 50, fleeing the country with $11 million in fraud proceeds. The story has now gone global. New York Post: Minnesota fraud suspect skips court, forfeits bond, throwing $11M Medicaid case into doubt. U.K. Daily Mail: Minnesota fraud suspect fails to show in court throwing $11 million Medicaid case into doubt. Said’s courtroom
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January 30, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Demography is destiny, as Mark Steyn and others have been reminding us for some years now. That being the case, the world is destined to change: In case you are wondering, there were around 3.7 million babies born in the U.S. in 2025. Having children is the most radical thing you can do. Unfortunately, in recent times most people in the developed world have had different priorities.
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December 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This afternoon, President Trump announced that he had ordered strikes against Islamic terrorist groups in Nigeria: I haven’t seen any word yet on damage done by the airstrikes. The Department of War says they were coordinated with the government of Nigeria: The Pentagon coordinated with the Nigerian government ahead of the strikes. “The Department of War worked with the government of Nigeria to carry out these strikes,” a War Department
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November 23, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, ‘Panic’ in Minnesota’s Somali community after Trump’s pledge to end deportation protections. When Pres. Trump first posted his intentions on Friday night, we were told it was a meaningless, merely symbolic gesture, as it would impact, at most around 430 Minnesota residents from Somalia on “temporary protected status” (TPS). These temporary protections have been in place for 34 years and the latest extension was set
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November 9, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Given recent events, a reader suggested that I look into the amount of “remittances” sent to east African nations in recent years. This is the money sent home from a nation’s diaspora and it represents a surprisingly large amount of their economies. The World Bank keeps track of such things. Somalia, for example, ranks as the 8th poorest nation on earth, with a per capita GDP figure below $2,000 per
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November 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Muslims have been murdering Christians in Nigeria for a long time, something like 125,000 since 2009. Their slow-motion genocide has recently accelerated, as Muslims have killed more than 7,000 Christians. There have been no consequences, with most mainline Christian (or “Christian”) denominations in the U.S. failing even to register concern. But President Trump has seen enough: I don’t expect we will see the 82nd Airborne deployed to Nigeria, but a
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October 24, 2025 — Bill Glahn
A Halloween surprise for the man from Maryland, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. From the Associated Press (AP), US says it now plans to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as Oct. 31. How soon is now? A Friday court filing from the Department of Homeland Security notes that “Liberia is a thriving democracy and one of the United States’s closest partners on the African continent.” Its national language is
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October 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
One doesn’t need to be the Oracle of Delphi to foretell the coming of the vile Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of New York. It’s almost unbelievable. Mamdani’s father is Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at — you may have heard — Columbia University. That is all too believable. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal carried
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September 5, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From Fox News (via Fox 5 DC), Kilmar Abrego Garcia will now be deported to the small African nation of Eswatini, according to a new email from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement obtained by FOX News. You will recall that Eswatini is the new name (since 2018) of an enclave within the footprint of South Africa. I had thought that the Salvadoran Abrego doesn’t want to return home, preferring instead
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August 4, 2025 — Bill Glahn
The Rwandans are doing their part to help the effort. From Reuters, The United States and Rwanda have agreed for the African country to potentially accept hundreds of migrants deported from the U.S., the spokesperson for the Rwandan government and an official told Reuters, as President Donald Trump’s administration takes a hardline approach toward immigration. The agreement, under which Rwanda would accept up to 250 migrants, was signed by U.S.
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July 28, 2025 — Bill Glahn
In our visit to the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis today, we encountered the rare illegal alien from outside of Latin America. Asongafack Derick Mewoabi, age 34, hails from Cameroon, and he was caught on June 9 attempting to sneak across the Minnesota-Canada border. Cameroon is located in west Africa on the Atlantic Ocean. Parts of the present-day country were formerly colonies of Germany, France and Britain. Cameroon is led by
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July 9, 2025 — Bill Glahn
We are still doing this? From the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Congo Braces for HIV Surge After U.S. Funding Stops. Just so we are clear on which Congo, the article is about the Democratic Republic, the former Belgian colony, rather than the neighboring Republic of the Congo, a far more functional, former French colony. The WSJ reports about the expected HIV surge, For years, Congolese women relied on U.S.-supplied antiretrovirals
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May 21, 2025 — John Hinderaker
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa was in the White House today, meeting with President Trump. Trump took the opportunity to talk about the attacks on white farmers in South Africa, and even played a video. The New York Times pretends to be shocked: In an astonishing ambush, President Trump dimmed the lights in the Oval Office on Wednesday during a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and
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March 30, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Trump administration is putting USAID out of business, and Africans are foreseeing the consequences. But possibly not in the way you would imagine. The Telegraph headlines: “‘We should have been hammered a long time ago’: African countries thank Trump for aid wake-up call.” Just as Europe has realised it must stand on its own and pay up to defend itself without American muscle, African countries are realising they cannot
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