Twin Cities Somali group gets new leader

A former chief of staff to the president of Somalia is taking over as head of a local Somali advocacy group.

Dahir Jibreel is currently a social studies teacher at Edison High School in Minneapolis. He previously held several high-ranking posts in the Somali transitional government and was a candidate for president there in late 2008.

He is taking over as chief executive officer of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis. That group has been led by Omar Jamal, who has been a prominent spokesman on Somali issues and causes in the Twin Cities area. Jamal says he is taking a job in New York.

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