ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO)-- President Joe Biden is calling one of Minnesota's top public servants to the nation's capital. Hamse Warfa, the highest-ranking Somali American in Minnesota's executive branch ...

Social entrepreneur Hamse Warfa spent three years in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp in the mid-1990s before arriving to the U.S. and making his home in Minneapolis. He has worked on behalf of refugees ...

A new study published by University of Minnesota researchers found that working in groups can help students better understand classroom material. The study, published last month, found that within ...

Sadik Warfa, the spokesman and translator for families of young Somali-American men tried on terrorism charges, is leaving the U.S. to run for political office in Somalia. "It is a personal choice," ...

The story of Hamse Warfa begins in a place not unfamiliar to many immigrants in Minnesota: Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia. But where that story culminates (at least for now), is quite unique: ...

As a former refugee, Hamse Warfa remembers first-hand being completely excluded from the global economic ecosystem. It's a problem that affects 2.5 billion around the world, but he's now dedicated to ...

Despite state Rep. Jeff Hayden‘s experience as a state legislator and his monopoly on endorsements, he wasn’t without competition in his ultimately victorious run at the DFL nomination for Senate ...

Hamse Warfa, the highest-ranking African immigrant in the Minnesota state government, currently serves as the Deputy Commissioner for Workforce Development at the Department of Employment and Economic ...

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To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Warfa will lead the Office of Economic Opportunity, a new ...

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