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Kenyan refugee camp friendship rekindled in St. Cloud
By Ibrahim Hirsi, St. Cloud Times The recent stream of Somali immigrants and refugees who are making their mark in St. Cloud is partly the reason Hussein Mohamud and Feisal Ali decided to live in the city. The childhood friends who grew up in the dusty and arid Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya also picked St. Cloud to be closer to their families here — and to Minneapolis, which has a vibrant Somali-American presence and serves as the capital city for Somalis in North America. “It’s a small place,” Ali said of St. Cloud. “Anywhere you want to go in Read More …