Word: jubaland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jubaland is the name of a real place: a 36,000-square-mile patch of African wilderness inhabited by some 130,000 black Somalis who raise scraggly cattle and camels. Until 1925, Jubaland was a province of Britain's Kenya Colony, but in that year most of it was transferred to Italy. Last week Britain very nearly had it back again-and was set to take a little more. By last week, British and South Africans had chased the Italians as far as the Juba River, which before the transfer marked the boundary between Italian and British colonies...
...Middle East concentrated last week on Italy's Libyan and Eritrean bases, while South African bombers attacked in southern Ethiopia and Jubaland. Patrols of Lieut. General Henry Maitland Wilson's Egyptian command (40,000 strong) took two Italian forts and 200 askari prisoners on the Libyan border...