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...known for some of the world's most famous songs. What's your favorite...
...reported that al-Shabab receives funds and weapons from the Middle East and the Eritrean government. (Al-Shabab fights Ethiopia, and Ethiopia is Eritrea's archenemy.) But that support is small compared with the assistance that extremist groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan have received from radical Islamists around the world. Finally, the risk that Somalia could ignite a wider conflagration across the Horn of Africa - sucking in Ethiopia, Eritrea and even Kenya - is real but, again, nothing like the one in Afghanistan's neighborhood. As U.S. ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger never tires of pointing out, none of Somalia...
...following her death. The song's outsize success--it is the best-selling single ever--spawned a wave of imitators too lazy to even think up new lyrics. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was rerecorded and released in 2004 to benefit Darfur. And the new "We Are the World," featuring an Auto-Tuned Lil Wayne in place of Bob Dylan, may be raising money atop the iTunes charts, but it does so at the expense of botching a sentimental classic. At least its heart is in the right place...
Where have all the charity songs gone? In recent years, that staple of the mid-1980s--the all-star benefit tune--has become a pop rarity. But now, 25 years after "We Are the World" raised $63 million for African famine relief, a new generation of musicians has rerecorded the anthem, with proceeds going to victims of Haiti's recent earthquake...
...when Band Aid--a British and Irish supergroup that included Sting, Bono and George Michael--recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to benefit African famine victims. The effort raised some $18 million and was soon copied across the pond by USA for Africa with "We Are the World," which quickly became the best-selling song of the decade...