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Customary justice in Somalia

The heavy reliance on customary justice in Somalia, which can obscure formal records and official crime statistics

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Jan 25, 2026
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Confermed Elderly Samali deaths

Available reporting does not provide a verified, single-number tally of “”; broad mortality estimates and crisis studies document large excess deaths in since 2022 but explicitly note poor death‑regis...

Jan 23, 2026

How have gaps in Somali civil records been used in political narratives about Somali‑American families?

— rooted in decades of state collapse, displacement and a strong oral-genealogy tradition — have been reframed by political actors as evidence of fraud, foreignness, or untrustworthiness in narratives...

Jan 6, 2026

What are the common charges and sentencing outcomes in Somalia-origin gang cases in Minnesota since 2020?

Since 2020 reporting and prosecutions involving people of Somali origin in Minnesota have centered overwhelmingly on large-scale federal fraud prosecutions—most notably the Feeding Our Future/child-ca...

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