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...would you react if John McCain asked Arnold Schwarzenegger to be his running mate? -Abdi Hussein, EVERETT, WASH.First of all, it's not going to happen because of the Constitution. I checked it out. [But] that would be a challenge. We have Barack Obama and McCain signs, driving up to our house, one on one side and one on the other...
...Abdi Aden makes his living by charging tourists to ride on his large, red-costumed camel on Kenya's picturesque eastern coast. But ever since last month's fiercely contested presidential elections broke into violence, tourists have stopped flocking to the coastal town of Mombasa - and Aden's camel sits in the middle of a glistening white beach - alone...
...Ethiopia invaded Somalia, 503,000 refugees have fled Mogadishu to live in hovels of twigs and plastic bags in the bush. A year ago, there were 370 refugee families at a refugee camp 30 miles (48 km) from Mogadishu. Six months later, the camp sheltered 20,000 people. Hawa Abdi, a Somali doctor after whom the camp is named, told TIME this summer, "We need doctors. We need medicine. We need food. We need shelter. But for that, we need peace." It hasn't come...
...many of his bandmates, Waahaya Cusub acts like a safety net to help them cope with the unforgiving lives of refugees. For Huissen Abdi Qananuf, acting in the band's music videos was the best thing that ever happened to him, "If I were back in Somalia, I would definitely be dead or killing people. Things have changed for me now. The gangsters who would take away my shoes at the mosque don't trouble me anymore...
...wounds of that pogrom are still fresh. As Abdi talks, a troop of crippled young Somali men arrive. One has a cast on his left forearm, the bone shattered by a bullet; another is on crutches, his right leg amputated after a knee-capping; a third lost his left eye. Abdi's room feels like a field hospital. But it was to escape such horrors - militiamen had killed their mother and another brother on their farm outside Baidoa - that Abdi and his brother left in 2004. "We chose South Africa for a better life," he says. "We came here...