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The vast, green grasslands stretch across the impossibly flat plains, a few hazy trees pockmarking the stretched horizon. Every now and then, a small pocket of tokuls, the traditional Sudanese mud and thatched huts, pop-up alongside the dirt road that leads to Pariang, at the heart of ...
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Driving through the streets of downtown Mogadishu, waves lap against the legs of a child playing in the stagnant waters of last night’s torrential rains. Behind him stands the ruins of the Italian cathedral, built over 80 years previously, now a mere shell after an artillery attack from militant group Al-Shebab.
In the crumbling ruins of Vishio Governo, the Italian Governor’s former offices opposite the cathedral, a swathe of ...
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“I was asleep upstairs when the shells hit” said Hassan, talking of a few nights previously when this huge crater in front of his shop was made. Qaddafi forces had been shelling this ...
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I had no idea what to expect of the conflict in Misrata. For six weeks, the city had been under siege as a rebellion inside the city largely ousted the Qaddafi forces there. Few foreign journalists had been there, and telecommunications in ...
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His hands covered in thick bandages, an eye glassed over and with puss oozing from the peeling skin on his severely burned head, Mohamed el-Mahdi looks the ...
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