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Ilhan Omar’s parents — primarily her father, Nur Omar Mohamed — and her extended family are repeatedly cited by profiles as central to her early life: her mother died when Omar was about two, and her ...
Independent, public reporting documents that Siad Barre’s regime committed wide human-rights abuses, that some former regime figures later appear in the global Somali diaspora, and that diaspora netwo...
Ilhan Omar’s family background sits at the intersection of Somalia’s clan rivalries and the violent politics of Mohamed Siad Barre’s regime: Omar’s paternal lineage is from the Osman Mohamud sub‑branc...