Ali-Guban Mohamed links a recent welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota's Somali community to patterns of corruption under Mohamed Siad Barre's former dictatorship in Somalia. Some former officials and ...

Barre had died in exile in Nigeria at age 80, four years after being overthrown by militia forces in 1991, and needed to be transported to Somalia.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Siad Barre died in exile in Nigeria four years after fleeing Somalia [Corbis/Getty Images] Exactly 31 years ago to the day, two ...

Ali-Guban Mohamed is founder and editor of Gubanmedia.com, an online source of news and commentary about the Horn of Africa based in Lewis Center. News of the years-long scandals involving the massive ...