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Former refugee in Kenya Ilhan Omar elected to US Congress

Democrats, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib mark election victory [Courtesy]

 Voters in Minnesota and Michigan on Tuesday elected the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress, a former refugee who fled Somalia’s civil war and a Detroit-born Palestinian-American.

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