Word: somali
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...Across the street, Samir Jaylani, 21, gathered with other Somali refugees newly arrived from the Minneapolis area to take jobs at the plant, which is trying to rebuild its workforce after losing about half of its staff in the immigration raid. But Agriprocessors is having a hard time keeping new arrivals on the job. Jaylani quit after one day processing turkeys. "I didn't get trained enough," he says. "It was highly dangerous equipment. I wouldn't take the chance of cutting my hand...
...TIME: There has been some dispute over how big this emergency is. What is your assessment? Meles: We have pockets of severe malnutrition in some districts in the south and an emergency situation in the Somali region. It's not small to those who are suffering, but it is a manageable problem...
...Switzerland just pulled out of the Somali region, saying the [Ethiopian] security services there [who are fighting an ethnic Somali insurgency] were placing too many restrictions on it. Are you placing security and politics above humanitarian concerns in that area? That's not true. Most of the humanitarian agencies are operating there. Only those who find it difficult to distinguish between political interference and humanitarian assistance are restricted. I can give my assurance that the Ogaden is receiving the same level of care as other affected parts of the country...
They pursue their prey using outboard motors instead of oars and tote rocket-propelled grenades instead of cutlasses. But like their peg-legged predecessors, the pirates of today's headlines--most recently those who hijacked a Japanese cargo ship off the Somali coast on July 20--are economic opportunists exploiting the largely unpatrolled waterways through which 90% of global trade flows...
...Andrew Purvis, our correspondent in Mogadishu, mornings come early after uneasy nights broken by the clattering of combat helicopters on patrol. Just after dawn, Somali drivers gun their engines outside the Hotel Sahafi, signaling to Andrew that it's time to begin another day covering this demanding and often dangerous story. There was water in the taps, and electricity most of the time last week, and some cotton towels for a change, so things were looking up. More important, the fighting that had claimed 18 American soldiers the week before had subsided. There were tentative signs of peace...