Word: somalian
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...world. And business is excellent. Telcom boasts an annual average return of 35% on investment since its founding in the midst of the civil war in 1994. Last December, Sheikh secured $14 million from his Chinese partners, Shenzhen-based Huawei, to upgrade his service. In total, the Somalian telecoms industry employs 65,000 people. "No taxes, no regulation, no bureaucrats - a total free market where we can do whatever we want when we want," says Sheikh. "Somalia is Adam Smith's dream...
...Already, the site claims to have received 1.2 million documents, which will be available when Wikileaks goes live some time in the next two months. As an example of what to expect, the site's organizers posted a memo on civil war policy issued in November 2005 by the Somalian Islamic court system's Office of the Chief of the Imams. Wikileaks also posted a 17-page analysis of the memo. According to Dr S. Samatar, professor of African History at Rutgers University-Newark, the analysis is "very well-written, but is out of date because events have since overtaken...
...nearly starved in the Netherlands during the German occupation in World War II. You can see why Hepburn essentially retired from movies at 38 to care for her two sons, and why the starving children of Africa and Asia were kin to her. The photos of Audrey with the Somalian children show a woman nearly as thin as they. It's anorexia as empathy - as if she didn't want to embarrass the starving children she met by looking too well...
...Peace and Democracy, which aims to "promote peace, democracy and support the community in decision-making and to develop a strategy to overcome the current awful situation in Somalia." He admits the organization's success has been limited. "Somali is a poor language," he smiles apologetically. "There is no Somalian word for democracy...
...commander of a clan militia that ruled a district of Mogadishu from the barrel of a gun. A naturalized U.S. citizen and a Marine who served in the first Gulf War, Aidid was a successor to his father, Mohammed Farah Aidid, the warlord who battled American troops in the Somalian capital in 1993, killing 18, in a bloody street battle made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down. (Mohammed Farah Aidid was killed in 1996.) Today, by virtue of the Byzantine clan structure and shifting power deals that carve up this East African nation, Aidid finds himself Deputy Premier, Interior...