Reporting from Haradhere, Somalia, and Nairobi, Kenya – Straddling a wooden crate filled with $1 million in cash ransom, a cranky old pirate bellows names from a notebook as his anxious, bleary-eyed minions lean against the stone walls of their cramped hide-out.
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Along the ghostly streets of Mogadishu, just about the only traffic nowadays consists of starving cats and goats searching for food.
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A year ago, Bashir Yusuf was a schoolboy who dreamed of becoming a doctor.
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The voice on the other end of my cellphone was oddly calm, but intent.
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Islamist militias tightened their hold on southern Somalia on
Wednesday, seizing control of a major strategic town and ousting a
group of secular warlords in a brief, decisive battle just a week
after driving them from Mogadishu.
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Islamist leaders newly in control of this city offered Wednesday to
hold talks with the country’s transitional government, a move some
analysts said could provide the first hope of stability after 15
years of anarchy.
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