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...leads—is why Robert “The RZA/Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah/ Rzarector Prince Rakeem/” Diggs was cast as its moral center and tragic antihero. The hip-hop MC, best known for his work in the East Coast hardcore crew the Wu-Tang Clan, has also composed film soundtracks, including those of both “Kill Bill”’s and “Blade: Trinity.” While his musical skill and influence on rap is undeniable, his laughable performance as the ex-convict confidante Winston is simply...
...Diplomats from Kenya, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and the U.N. took over negotiations. A delegation flew to Somalia to talk to the transitional government and clan elders, warning that food aid could be halted unless the Semlow's crew was released. Meanwhile, life on board the ship fell into a pattern. The crew was forced to stay at the rear of the Semlow where they passed the time fishing and praying. Food quickly ran low and the crew rationed water. The pirates ate well, though, bringing goats, potatoes, tomatoes and onions from the mainland and cooking WFP rice. Every four...
...surge in attacks comes fourteen years after the fall of Somalia's last effective central government. Much of the country is split between warlords, clan elders and Saudi-sponsored Islamic clerics. Peace talks in neighboring Kenya led, last year, to the election of a "transitional federal government." But that body is already split by a rivalry between the President and Prime Minister, on the one hand, who are holed up in the small town of Jowhar, and several warlords, some of whom are also cabinet ministers, based in Mogadishu. With no way of controlling his own ministers, let alone...
...unforgivable. That he bowed to such compromise is testimony to the fact that the Nelson Mandela who walked with such dignity out of prison in February 1990 was not the same firebrand who had been placed there 27 years before. Born into the royal family of the Thembu, a clan of the Xhosa tribe based in the Transkei, Mandela was trained as a boy to rule someday as a chief. Instead he became a lawyer and an A.N.C. militant. It was just a few months after then A.N.C. leader Chief Albert Luthuli was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize that...
MOHAMMED FARRAH AIDID From fugitive to victor over the U.S., the Somali clan leader returns from hiding more powerful than ever...