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Female Religious Leaders
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 13, 2010 (SL Times) – Female
religious leaders have taken a central role in the fight
against AIDS in Somalia. This follows a series of trainings
recently conducted by local organizations, with support from
UNDP.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 13, 2010 – HODO LIFE LINE has
appealed to the UN, International relief workers and the
International community to assist in providing emergency
assistance to 1.4 million Somaliland Pastoral farmers who
are on the brink of starvation due the recent drought which
has sustained for the past two years and currently threatens
to culminate into a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
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Nairobi, Kenya, February 13, 2010 – Some 126 people have been
rescued by Somali fishermen from the Gulf of Aden after human
traffickers reportedly forced them into the sea at gunpoint.
The migrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, said they had
set off from northern Somalia a week ago.
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Addis Ababa, February 13, 2010 – An Amharic version of
Microsoft Vista software was launched in Addis Ababa last
Thursday.
Launching the Amharic version software is a major step
forward for Amharic to be a language of technology, Director
of the Ethiopian ICT Development Agency (EICTDA), Debretsion
Gebremichael said.
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Nairobi/Mogadishu, February 13, 2010 – A Somali minister on
Tuesday claimed that government forces had killed a senior
al-Qaeda fighter who was also a member of Somali insurgent
group al-Shabaab. State-run Radio Mogadishu earlier reported
that Amar Ibrahim, a Jordanian national, was killed on
Monday.
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Addis Ababa, February 13, 2010 – Driven by investment in
infrastructure, Ethiopia's IT market is expected to grow in
2010, potentially providing opportunities for vendors and IT
service providers.
IDC expects the IT spending growth witnessed in 2009 to
accelerate in 2010 in tandem with overall economic growth,
supported by recovery in global demand and relatively stable
oil prices.
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Al-Qaeda Offshoot Urges
More US Attacks |
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Former
detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Said al-Shahri |
DUBAI,
February 13, 2010 — Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the
Yemen-based group that claimed a botched Christmas Day
attack on a US airliner, on Monday called for more American
targets to be hit around the world.
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Longest Hijacked Vessel
Taiwanese M/V WIN FAR 161 Released After 10 Months |
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Win
Far 161 |
Gulf of Aden, February 13, 2010 – M/V WIN FAR 161 that has
been anchored off the Somali coast in the vicinity of
Harardheere for almost 10 months has finally been released.
The pirates vacated the vessel on the evening of 11 Feb and
the master has taken command once more.
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Egypt To Train Somali
Security Forces, Official Says |
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Mogadishu,
Somalia, February 13, 2010 – The Egyptian Government has
expressed readiness to train recruits for Somalia's
embattled military and police, Somali officials say.
Somali government officials confirmed on Friday Egypt's
readiness to train 400 Somali police and military troops in
an attempt to help combat piracy in Somali waters, a Press
TV correspondent reported.
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Eassy Undersea Cable Lands
In SA |
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By Arthur Goldstuck | Filed in Serious
Hardware
Johannesburg, February 13, 2010 – The second of nine new
undersea telecommunications cables to connect Sub-Saharan
Africa to the rest of the world by 2011 will make landfall
in South Africa on 13 February 2010. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK
reports on the benefits - as well as unintended consequences
for Telkom, who will be managing the SA landing point.
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Canada’s Transport Minister
Hopes To Put Makhtal On Road To Freedom From Ethiopian
Prison |
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Bashir
Makhtal was given a life sentence Aug. 3, 2009 in
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 13, 2010 – Wheels are now in
motion to bring Bashir Makhtal, a Canadian citizen sentenced
to life imprisonment in Ethiopia, back to Canada.
A political process has now begun to bring Makhtal, a former
Torontonian, home, said John Baird, Canada’s Minister of
Transport who met with the Ethiopian Foreign Affairs
Minister His Excellency Seyoum Mesfin on Wednesday.
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Survey Shows Fewer Somalis
Need Humanitarian Aid |
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By Frank Nyakairu
Nairobi, February 13, 2010 – The number of Somalis needing
aid has fallen by more than half a million because of
increased food production, mostly in the south of the Horn
of Africa state, a survey showed on Thursday.
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East African Women's Center
Scrambles To Survive |
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By Cynthia Boyd
Minneapolis, February 13, 2010 – It's a little tricky
finding the East African Women's Center, housed as it is in
a one-story building in a winter-cloaked courtyard engulfed
by high-rise apartments in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood
of Minneapolis.
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US Contractors Plead For
More Security Aid For Somalia |
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Nico
Colombant
Mogadishu, February 13, 2010 – As residents of Somalia's
capital Mogadishu brace for an escalation of violence
between government forces and Islamic militants, an official
with a U.S. contractor providing security assistance is
pleading for more international aid.
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Meeting To Discuss How Millions Of
Dollars In Aid Money Where Spent In Somaliland In 2008/2009 |
Ali Ibrahim, Somaliland
minister for Development
& Planning with UN
officials in
2006, (photo-file).
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
February 13, 2010 (SL
Times) – A meeting will
be held tomorrow in
Hargeysa between
government authorities
and international
organizations to review
how hundreds of millions
of dollars in aid funds
where spent in
Somaliland in 2008/2009.
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Somaliland Parliament
Delegation Participates In Commonwealth Conference |
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 London, UK, February
13, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland Parliament Deputy Speaker,
Abdiaziz Samale and parliamentarian Adan Tarabi Oogle,
participated in a conference of Commonwealth parliamentarians in
London.
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Deputy Parliament
Speaker, Bashe Muhammad Farah, Meets Finnish Delegation,
Talks About Las Anod Situation |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 13, 2010 (SL Times) – In an
interview with Holhol.net, Somaliland Second Deputy Speaker,
Mr. Bashe Muhammad Farah answered questions about his
meeting with the Finnish delegation that came to Somaliland.
He said that the purpose of the Finnish delegation's visit
was to find out about the security and economic situation in
Somaliland as well as the preparations for the coming
election.
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An Evening In Defense Of The
Somali Language |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 13, 2010 (SL Times) – The
Hargeysa Readers’ Club organized a literary event called “The
intellectual and the Hargeysa Readers’ club”. The event took
place at Imperial hotel and the main speaker was the Somaliland
writer Abdirahman Abdillahi Farah (Ina Guri Barwaaqo) who lives
in Canada and is currently visiting Somaliland.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 13, 2010 (SL Times) – The
University of Hargeysa adopted a new data base system which
brings it in line with other universities around the world. The
new system is based on a data base which allots a student number
which the student can keep throughout their enrollment and can
use to execute their transactions with the university.
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Las Anod, Somaliland, February
13, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland Minister of Interior, Abdillahi
Ismail Ali (Irro) toured government offices in Las Anod and
received briefings from government officials about their
offices.
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Israel Says Ready To Recognize
Somaliland |
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Tel Aviv, Israel, February 13,
2010 (SL Times) – The government of Israel is ready to restore
the de jure recognition it has offered to Somaliland in 1960 as
it eyes the Red Sea and the Horn, an Israeli spokesman says.
Below is an article published by Somaliland Press on February
12, 2010:
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Somaliland Elections: Observers
Welcome Progress Towards Setting Date For Poll |
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London, February 13, 2010 (SL Times) – As part of the UK-based
team coordinating election observers for the much-delayed
presidential elections in the internationally unrecognized
Republic of Somaliland, Progressio today welcomes recent
progress made to resolve the Somaliland voter registration
process – a key sticking point – and calls on all parties to
push ahead and set a date for the poll.
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Former VOA Somali Services
Employee Speaks Out Against Her Former Boss’s Harassments |
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Washington,
February 13, 2010— Former employee of VOA, Farhia Absie speaks
out against her former boss, Mr. Abdirahman Yabarow, Chief
Editor of VOA Somali-Services in an interview with Radio
Rajo-doon. Farhia, who joined VOA on 15th January 2008 accused
Mr. Yabarow of misusing American tax payers funds, abusing and
harassing his employees on basis of clan affiliation.
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Jerusalem, February 13, 2010 – The Minister for Public
Security, Yitzchak Aharonovich, met his Kenyan counterpart
Prof. George Saitoti in Jerusalem Thursday, and the two
discussed their countries' security and criminal problems.
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Mogadishu, Somalia,
February 13, 2010 (SL Times) – Reports from Mogadishu say
that Salah Nur Ismail (Badbaado), a member of Sheikh
Sharif’s parliament has surrendered to al-Shabaab.
The reports appeared after Mr. Badbaado could not be found
at his hotel. Mr. Badbaado was a frequent critic of Sheikh
Sharif’s government and had asked several times for Sheikh
Sharif to resign the presidency since he dismally failed in
his duties.
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
February 13, 2010 (SL Times) – Suleiman Olad Roble, the
minister of sport in Sheikh Sharif’s government passed away
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Mr. Suleiman Olad Roble was one of
the victims of the suicide bomb attack at Mogadishu’s Shamo
hotel that took place on Dec.3, 2009.
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Rainbow Nation Puts Troubles Aside
To Pay Tribute To Nelson Mandela |
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Nelson Mandela,
pictured in the South
African parliament on
the
anniversary of his
release from prison |
Cape Town,
February 13, 2010 – Nelson Mandela made a rare public appearance
to attend the state opening of South Africa’s parliament, in a
move deliberately timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of
his historic release from prison.
Mr Mandela, now
a frail 91-year-old, was driven in a black limousine direct to a
basement entrance of the country’s historic parliament building
in Cape Town, avoiding the obligatory red carpet walk of
President Jacob Zuma and his entourage.
Delighted members of parliament, from opposition parties and the
ruling African National Congress (ANC), cheered and sang:
“Nelson Mandela, there is none like you” as a cheerful former
president, accompanied by his wife Graca Machel, was slowly
ushered to his seat in the chamber.
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U.S. Successfully Tests Airborne
Laser On Missile |
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The U.S.A.F.
Airborne Laser aircraft sits on the tarmac at Andrews
Air Force Base outside Washington, June 21, 2007 |
WASHINGTON, February 13, 2010 – A U.S. high-powered airborne
laser weapon shot down a ballistic missile in the first
successful test of a futuristic directed energy weapon, the U.S.
Missile Defense Agency said on Friday.
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The H1N1 flu virus (red) is
pictured in this handout photograph taken on July 9, 2009 and
released on July 13, 2009. |
WASHINGTON, February 13, 2010 – H1N1 swine flu has killed as many as 17,000
Americans, including 1,800 children, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reported on Friday.
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Saudi judicial
authorities begin a revaluation of camel-based 'blood money'
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 13, 2010 – Saudi Arabian officials are
reevaluating the standard amount of 'blood money' awarded to the families of
murder victims in the kingdom. The judiciary council is an eleven member body
made up mostly of judges appointed by the Saudi king. According to Arab News,
the council has dispatched officials from the General Commission of the high
court in the Saudi capital Riyadh to survey market rates for camels throughout
the kingdom, so as to come up with more accurate standard 'blood money' awards.
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By NICK
WINGFIELD
Washington,
February 13, 2010 –
Microsoft Corp. plans to
introduce long-awaited new software for powering cellphones on Monday, as the
company seeks to regain a technology edge in the market against rivals like
Apple Inc. and Google Inc.
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Success rooted
in its bottom-up approach that embraces local norms, structures
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Unlike the
rest of Somalia where chaos reigns, Somaliland is a
remarkable success. Business as usual in Hargeysa
(above), the capital of Somaliland |
Book title: Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and
International Recognition
Author: Prof Iqbal D. Jhazbhay
Year of publication: 2009
Pages: 243
Reviewed by AHMED AIDEED
Any reader
may wonder if anything other than piracy, warlords tussle and
the sound of bombs can ever come from Somalia.
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By Douglas Muir
Kosovo and Serbia are now waiting for the International Court of
Justice to rule on whether Kosovo is independent or not.
Except, not really.
Back in October 2008, the new Government of Serbia asked the ICJ
to rule on whether Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of
independence (”UDI”) in March 2008 was legal. This was clever in
several ways. Internally, the new, relatively liberal and
pro-Western Serbian government shored up its flank against
certain sorts of nationalist attack.
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Poets are folk heroes and
crowds gather to hear poems recited but verse does not end
the war.
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 By Tristan
McConnell
Editor's note: Somalia defines the term
failed state. This GlobalPost series includes accounts of
being under
fire in Mogadishu, on guard duty with African
Union peacekeepers, an investigation into the Al
Shabaab rebels and an analysis of when
Somalia will improve.
Mogadishu, Somalia and Hargeysa, Somaliland — Imagine a
country where poetry is everything.
Imagine a place where the poets themselves are folk heroes
and role models, a place where everyone knows the verses by
heart and where crowds gather spellbound to hear the most
popular poets perform.
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 Saturday,
20 Feb. 2010 at 4pm
Oxford House, Derby Shire Street, E2 6GH
The Mourning Tree: an autobiography and a memoir of prison,
by Mohamed Barud Ali
Ponte Invisibile Ed (redsea-online), February 2010, 256 pp -
13x20cm (soft cover)
Kayd Somali Arts and Culture in collaboration with redsea-online.com is
proudly inviting you to the presentation of new book: 'Weerane'
(The Mourning Tree), autobiography by Mohamed Barud Ali. Join us to discuss this new
autobiography with the
author and also mark and commemorate with
us,
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The
International Community Is Al-Shabaab’s Best Ally In Somaliland |
Since the international community often proclaims its
opposition to terrorism in general, and al-Shabaab in
particular, some readers may find the title of this editorial
surprising, even counterintuitive. But we think the facts bear
out our thesis. What are these facts? Well, it is true that the
international community ritually makes statements against
al-Shabaab and terrorism but their actual policies hurt
Somaliland and help al-Shabaab. How so? For one thing, the
international community’s stance of not recognizing Somaliland
has led to Somaliland’s diplomatic isolation and put Somaliland
in a position where it has to fend for itself against terrorist
activities without the benefit of the material and moral support
that internationally recognized states receive to defend
themselves from terrorism.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashiid
Sh. Hassan
This is the twelfth article of a series
of articles that Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military
coup and its legacy
The Second Power Base: The Beginning of the Disintegration
The State within a State
For a long time, the Russians were putting pressure on the
military regime to form some kind of a political
organization to legitimize their Marxist credentials. Siyad
Barre was worried that this might reduce his total
domination. There were several questions, which their
answers were not clear to him. Who would be included in this
party? What would be the power of the party vis-à-vis the
previously mentioned institutions, which until now were the
power base of the regime? How much influence would the
Russians have in the party? There was no working class or
even trade union who could give a socialist face to the
planned Socialist Party.
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I Thought Switzerland Was A
Christian State |
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By Ahmed Arwo
During the festive holiday of end of the year, I encountered
a friend of mine in a shopping mall in Cardiff, Wales. After
warm seasonal greetings, we started to chat about current
affairs. Switzerland and its eccentric decision to ban
minarets presented itself. My friend a devoted Christian
cannot believe a Christian state could ban a symbol of
another heavenly religion. He suddenly said... "I thought
Switzerland was a Christian state", hence, the title of this
article.
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Why Should I Send My Daughter
To School? |
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By: Farhan Abdi Suleiman (Oday)
Nimo was an 18 year old orphan girl born into a poor family,
she lived with her mother in the Sheikh Nour village in the
outskirts of Hargeysa. As many other young people in this
area, she can not afford to continue her higher education.
She completed 26 June Secondary school last year and
according to her examination results, she became first
female student with the highest score in Somaliland’s whole
Secondary Schools education.
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Land Sold To Sudan, Number One
Issue On The Coming Election!!!! |
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By Tedla Asfaw
We are now hearing from Khartoum that the ruling regime will
accept the referendum in January 2011 to be held at South
Sudan. Many are predicting that Sudan will split in to North
Arabs and South non Arabs. The Libyan dictator Mohamed
Qaddafi on last week statement in Addis was also suggesting
that independent South Sudan will be like Somalia. However,
he did not prescribe such outcome for his North Arab
friends.
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Iran And Pakistan: Terrorism
States Or Victims Of Terrorism? |
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By Ivan Simic
For the past few months we had the “honor” to read many articles and news
reports in which above countries have been described as mayor threats and
terrorism/terrorist supported states without any sustainable evidence. It is not
a secret that these states are facing much political and economical
turbulence’s, but that does not necessary means they are the world threats.
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Letter To The Editor - Use Our Forces For Good |
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Dear Sir/Madam,
The UK is currently squandering unaffordable billions waging war in countries in
which we have no business being merely in order to curry favor with the USA. Yet
our government seems to be totally unwilling to use the armed forces to further
the legitimate interests of its own citizens.
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Somali TV Broadcasts Plea
From East London: Let The Chandlers Go |
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Martin Fletcher
London, UK, February 13, 2010 – From a tiny, makeshift
studio in a back street in Walthamstow, northeast London, a
Somali satellite television channel called Universal TV is
broadcasting an unequivocal message to the Somali diaspora
around the world: Paul and Rachel Chandler, the British
couple kidnapped by Somali pirates four months ago, must be
set free.
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Black Mamba Boy Is An Epic
Journey |
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Black Mamba Boy. by Nadifa Mohamed (HarperCollins, £12.99)
Siobhan Murphy, February 13, 2010
Nadifa Mohamed describes herself as her father’s griot, as
this, her debut novel, is a recounting of his epic journey
across 1930s East Africa.
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