Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements
2009-09-20 20:06:00 Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements MOGADISHU – Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents called Wednesday for more foreign militants to join them in the failed Horn of Africa state after U.S. forces killed one of the region’s most wanted al-Qaida suspects. The U.S. special forces operation that killed Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, in remote southern ...
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Politics : The stage-managed famine in Ethiopia ? food for thought
2009-09-16 18:52:00 Do YOU believe every word you read in the press? in blogs? on the TV? How can we tell what is truth and what is stage-managed hype? The following article was on the H-Africa mail-list, sent in by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
US special forces targeted al-Qaida in Somalia
2009-09-16 01:02:00 US special forces targeted al-Qaida in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – The U.S. helicopters, guns blazing, swooped over a convoy carrying a top al-Qaida fugitive in rural southern Somalia. Elite commandos rappelled to the ground, collected two bodies, and took off on a cloud of red dust. The raid took just 15 minutes. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, ...
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Video decapitación de un cristiano en Somalia y Nota: 7 nuevas víctimas
2009-07-13 01:13:00 Mas decapitaciones a cristianos por parte de los islamistas bajo la mayor indiferencia de los medios de comunicación, de los organismos internacionales a los que compete estos delitos de lesa humanidad y de la gente. No tiene nombre. Ya denunciamos hace unos días la decapitación de cristianos en Somalia de otro hombre, de dos ...
Piracy off the coast of Somalia
2009-04-16 18:10:00 Toxic dumping and illegal fishing off the coast of Somalia…the real root of the problem. From Democracy Now: President Obama vowed an international crackdown to halt piracy off the coast of Somalia Monday soon after the freeing of US cargo ship captain Richard Phillips, who had been held hostage by Somali pirates since last Wednesday. While the ...
By: Today's Talk
Obama twice approved force to rescue hostage
2009-04-13 02:35:00 Obama twice approved force to rescue hostage WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama twice authorized the military to rescue a U.S. captain who was being held by Somali pirates and whose life appeared to be at risk, administration officials said after Sunday’s rescue. The Defense Department twice asked Obama for permission to use military force to ...
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Jihadist Training In Somalia And Then Returning Home In Britian
2009-02-16 16:02:00 Great news for Britian.Dozens of Islamic extremists have returned to Britain from terror training camps in Somalia, the British security services believe.Intelligence analysts are worried that they may attempt to launch attacks in this country or use the kudos from having trained and fought in Somalia to try to attract new recruits. The issue was raised by Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, in his first interview last month.In the US, the outgoing head of the CIA, Michael Hayden, has said that Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia in late 2006 ?catalysed? expatriate Somalis around the world.An investigation for Channel 4 News, to be broadcast tonight, also reveals that a suicide bomber who grew up in Ealing is thought to have blown himself up in an attack in Somalia that killed more than 20 soldiers. SOURCE
Somalis leaving Minn. for jihad
2008-12-19 17:42:00 Somalis leaving Minn. for jihad MINNEAPOLIS ? Mohamud Ali Hassan once told the Somali grandmother who raised him that he’d become a doctor and care for her. The Somali immigrant, who moved to the “Land of 10,000 Lakes” when he was 8, had good grades at the University of Minnesota and called Muslims to prayer ...
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Pirates fire on U.S. cruise ship in hijack attempt
2008-12-02 21:23:00 Pirates fire on U.S. cruise ship in hijack attempt NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise ship with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships, a maritime official said Tuesday. The M/S Nautica, carrying 656 international passengers ...
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Hijacked oil tanker anchored off Somalia coast
2008-11-18 17:58:00 Hijacked oil tanker anchored off Somalia coast MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million in crude oil anchored the ship within sight of impoverished Somali fishing villages Tuesday, while the U.S. and other naval forces decided against intervention for now. With few other options, shipowners in past piracy cases ...
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AP IMPACT: Security firms join Somali piracy fight
2008-10-27 04:56:00 AP IMPACT: Security firms join Somali piracy fight NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms - some with a reputation for being quick on the trigger in Iraq - are joining the battle against pirates plaguing one of the world’s most important shipping lanes off the coast of Somalia. The growing interest among ...
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Peace deal in Somalia dismissed by Islamists
2008-06-10 22:12:00 '); E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size NAIROBI: Peace is no small feat in Somalia, and if the reaction to a newly reached accord is any gauge, peace may still be a long way off.
By: Get rich
Somalia-Lost In Discussions Of Bush Mistakes
2008-06-09 09:02:00 Over the past few months as the primary debates focused on Bush economic policies in America or his failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, slight mention has been made of the tragedy he created in Somalia. President Bush encouraged, and supported with US air and naval resources, an invasion of Islamic Somalia by Christian Ethiopian forces. ...
A Thank You and Tribute to Our Troops on Memorial Day
2008-05-27 00:54:00 First, I would like to take this opportunity on Memorial Day to thank our troops who are currently serving overseas, whether that be in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Australia, Germany, South Korea, or wherever, and those who are serving here at home. Second, I would like to thank those who have given the ultimate sacrifice, their lives, ...
Somali Hospitality II
2008-05-26 17:58:00 A story has it that once a weary traveller came to a nomadic family by dusk. Unable to continue on with his journey, he decided to stay the night with the family that night. But due to the rainless season, the family had nothing much to offer. Noticing this, the guest did not expect a ...
News: Ugandan UN Peace Keepers accused of selling arms in Somalia
2008-05-24 22:14:00 A report by the UN monitoring group on the Somali arms embargo says Ugandan peacekeepers in Somalia have been selling arms to insurgents.It cites one incident in which a group of Ugandan soldiers allegedly received $80,000 for a transaction. Some peacekeepers are accused of setting up an arms trading network through translators. The soldiers received a wish-list of weapons from arms dealers and the weapons were then supplied from stores of equipment seized from insurgents. The monitoring group says the weapons find their way back to the insurgent group they were captured from in the first place.The Ugandan army has already dismissed the accusations as "absolutely ridiculous." (Full)More posts on The Road about UN Peace Keeping operations.Source: International Aidworkers TodayPicture courtesy Gambia News Community
Somali Hospitality
2008-05-24 16:26:00 Somalis are renowned for their hospitality. Though in their breast lies an indomitable spirit, sculpted by the asperity of their surroundings, Somalis are generally a pleasant people with a keen eye for generosity and are known to indulge in the pleasures of conviviality. In the vast arid countryside, where the nomadic settlers roam, hospitality is of ...
Somalia jihadists kidnap aid workers
2008-05-22 01:32:00 Jihadists in Somalia show their gratitude for foreign aid and assistance. Official: Somalia abductions ‘a terrorist act’ MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) ? Dozens of heavily armed gunmen kidnapped two Italian aid workers and their Somali colleague in southern Somalia on Wednesday in what a government official described as a “terrorist act.” Police are pursuing the kidnappers, government spokesman ...
Due volontari italiani del Cins sono stati rapiti in Somalia, Notizie dal m
2008-05-21 09:03:00 Autore: Ultime Notizie Agenzia di pubblicità Oggetto: Due volontari italiani del Cins sono stati rapiti in Somalia Inviato: Mer Mag 21, 2008 6:03 pm (GMT 11) Si chiamano Iolanda Occhipinti e Giuliano Paganini. Sono stati sequestrati nelle prime ore di stamani ad Awdhegle, 65 km. a sud di Mogadiscio assieme a un loro collega somalo. I tre lavorano per la Cins (Cooperazione internazionale nord sud) su un progetto cofinanziato dalla comunita' europea e dalla Fao. Secondo le prime informazioni arebbero stati rapiti stamane alle 6,30 locali (le 5,30 in Italia). E le uniche conferme arrivano dalle testimonianze di alcuni abitanti del villaggio: "Tre volontari, tra cui due italiani, un uomo e una donna, solo stati portati via da uomini armati che li hanno bendati e portati via" dice Mohamed Ibrahim Ali. La situazione di sicurezza in Somalia permane fortemente critica in tutto il Paese compresa la capitale Mogadiscio, a causa del conflitto tra il Governo federale transitorio - sostenuto ...
By: Ultime notizie
Media Alert: Somalia - Hidden Catastrophe Hidden Agenda
2008-05-17 10:38:00 by Media Lens On May 1, the BBC website reported an attack on Somalia with the “Air raid kills Somalia.One might think the BBC’s headline would identify the agency responsible for the bombing, but the first few sentences also shed no light: “The leader of the military wing of an Islamist insurgent organisation in Somalia has been killed in an overnight air strike. “Aden Hashi Ayro, al-Shabab's military commander, died when his home in the central town of Dusamareb was bombed. “Ten other people, including a senior militant, are also reported dead.” Only in the fourth sentence, was responsibility. “A US military spokesman told the BBC that it had attacked what he called a known al-Qaeda target in Somalia.” English teachers often illustrate use of the passive form with the sentence: ‘A man has been arrested.’ The passive is preferable, students are told, because the active form, ‘The police have arrested a man,’ contains a redundancy - the agent is already indicate...
Somalia: Dilemmas facing Somali music and musicians
2008-05-16 11:37:00 Source: OCPA 204 Musicians and singers in Somalia are continuously facing targeted killings, intimidation, injuries, and deprivation of their basic rights to work and express themselves freely by all sides in the country’s conflict, but these violations against Somali artists are not reported. www.freemuse.org/sw26598.asp
Nota bene
2008-05-12 14:20:00 Got hot links if you want ‘em! In “Mr. Cool’s Intensity” in the Washington Post, David Ignatius writes of Obama’s reluctance to write off Rev. Wright. There’s “an instinctive American fondness for people who don’t rat out their friends, even when their friends are creeps. That’s why a Wright-based strategy may backfire for the Republicans, just as it did for Hillary Clinton.” The New York Times’s pro-globalization and once pro-Iraq war columnist Tom Friedman seems to have mellowed during the sabbatical from which he recently returned. In “Who Will Tell the People?” he writes: “Much nonsense has been written about how Hillary Clinton is ‘toughening up’ Barack Obama so he’ll be tough enough to withstand Republican attacks. Sorry, we don’t need a president who is tough enough to withstand the lies of his opponents. We need a president who is tough enough to tell the truth to the ...
U.S. War Planes Strike Somalia
2008-05-02 14:36:00 Yeah?whatever Do me a favor Please? Don?t waste my time with news about Somalia. I?ve got more important things to worry about..like How many ants are there on a Tennessee Ant Hill? Bomb Somalia all you want to, in fact, EVERYBODY with a plane and a bomb should bomb Somalia? Good place for an above ground Nuclear Test?
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US missile strike kills reputed al-Qaida leader in Somalia
2008-05-02 01:47:00 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — U.S. missiles destroyed the house of the man identified by the U.S. military as the top al-Qaida commander in Somalia, killing him and 10 others Thursday in a pre-dawn attack that analysts warned could torpedo peace talks. The killing of Aden Hashi Ayro comes amid escalating fighting and a spiraling humanitarian crisis ...
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Insurgent Leader in Somalia Killed
2008-05-01 21:37:00 NAIROBI, May 1 -- An insurgent leader whom U.S. officials describe as al-Qaeda's top commander in Somalia was killed in a U.S. strike Wednesday night, according to the Islamist group he led and U.S. officials.
By: Get rich
Al Qaeda leader in Somalia relieved of duty by US missiles
2008-05-01 18:46:00 A top Al Qaeda leader in Somalia was killed along with 10 others during a 3AM missile strike. Chalk another one up for the Infidels… Yahoo MOGADISHU, Somalia - The U.S. military killed a man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia and 10 others in an airstrike overnight, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday. The ...
Al-Qaeda Commander in Somalia Killed
2008-05-01 17:11:00 NAIROBI, May 1 -- An insurgent leader whom U.S. officials describe as al-Qaeda's top commander in Somalia was killed in a U.S. strike Wednesday night, according to the Islamist group he led and U.S. officials.
By: Get rich
US Planes Kill Al-Qaida Leader In Somalia
2008-05-01 15:07:00 American war planes killed an Islamist leader who supposedly was a key al-Qaida opereative in Somalia. Rebels said Aden Hashi Ayro, who led al Shabaab militants in their attacks on Ethiopian and government forces, was killed by the air attack which also resulted in the deaths of innocent civilians. “Infidel planes bombed Dusmareb. Two of ...
Ethiopian Army Kills Civilians In Somalia
2008-04-29 19:48:00 At the end of 2006, President Bush encouraged Ethiopian forces to invade the Islamic nation of Somalia and throw out its Islamic leaders. The conflict has dragged on for over a year with increasing violonce and displacement of thousands of innocent civilians. In the latest manifestation of ignoring human rights, Amnesty International has accused the ...
Spanish fishing boat with 26 crew hijacked off Somalia
2008-04-21 17:34:00 Pirates armed with grenade launchers have hijacked a Spanish fishing trawler and its crew of 26 off the coast of Somalia.The Playa de Bakio was attacked 250 miles from the shoreline yesterday, and is headed back to Somalia. A Spanish navy frigate has been diverted to the scene of the hijacking.The attack comes just a week after a luxury French yacht with 30 crew on board was released by Somali pirates following payment of a £1m ransom. French special forces troops later chased the pirates as they fled inland, arresting six men and recovering £100,000 in cash. More...
Cheap Beer in Somalia: Website Lists Prices of Pints Around the World
2008-04-21 15:00:00 Air travel is becoming more affordable and places that had been shut off from the rest of the world are opening up ? like the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan for example, or Hamilton, Ontario Canada. But what good is visiting another country unless we know beforehand exactly how much a pint of beer will cost when we get there? Thankfully, UK tabloid The Sun helpfully directed the attention of its readers today to www.pintprice.com, a website that allows users to find out the price of a pint of suds in various places around the world.The website also lists the countries with the cheapest and most expensive ales in the world. Unfortunately, the cheapest beer, 10p (20 cents) a glass, is to be found in places to which your travel insurance is unlikely to extend, like the Congo and Somalia or locales so inaccessible that even the natives have forgotten how their ancestors made the trip originally like Tuvalu in the Pacific Islands. Monaco tops the list of countries that we?ll never visit ? ...
By: The Shark Guys
Vioence Escalates In Somalia
2008-04-21 09:46:00 During the closing months of 2006, the Bush administration urged the Ethiopian government to invade Somalia in order to crsuh what it believed was a fundamentalist Islamic government. In the ensuing warfare, the Ethiopian army easily crushed the Islamic fighters for the Somalian government. Defeating an Islamic army was one thing, but since then there ...
Somalia, massacrati tre insegnanti stranieri e un somalo, Notizie dal mondo
2008-04-14 21:16:00 Autore: Ultime Notizie Agenzia di pubblicità Oggetto: Somalia, massacrati tre insegnanti stranieri e un somalo Inviato: Mar Apr 15, 2008 6:16 am (GMT 11) Estremisti islamici in azione in una cittadina a 100 chilometri da Mogadiscio. Le vittime sono una britannica, due keniane e un somalo che aveva la cittadinanza del Regno Unito. I testimoni hanno riferito che gli insorti islamici sono entrati nell'abitato senza incontrare resistenza, perché le truppe governative si erano ritirate. Secondo una prima ricostruzione citata dalla 'Misna', le milizie islamiche hanno preso di mira una scuola privata della città, uccidendo gli insegnanti nel cortile dell'istituto in una sorta di esecuzione.
By: Ultime notizie
[Interesting] Pirates release 30 hostages off the coast of Somalia, get awa
2008-04-12 12:12:00 News.com.au
Somalia, pirati liberano gli ostaggi ma uccisi da un blitz, Notizie dal mon
2008-04-12 02:20:00 Autore: Ultime Notizie Agenzia di pubblicità Oggetto: Somalia, pirati liberano gli ostaggi ma uccisi da un blitz Inviato: Sab Apr 12, 2008 11:20 am (GMT 11) Un blitz di elicotteri ha attaccato il commando che era tornato a terra catturando sei dei sequestratori. Nell'operazione ci sarebbero stati almeno tre morti, ma l'Eliseo nega. Secondo altre fonti d'informazioni ci sarebbe stato un blitz di elicotteri che ha attaccato il commando che era tornato a terra catturando sei dei sequestratori. Secondo fonti locali, nell'operazione ci sono stati almeno tre morti, ma l'Eliseo nega. La Ponant e il suo equipaggio, secondo fonti a Parigi, sono in navigazione verso la base francese a Gibuti. Il rilascio è stato ottenuto dietro il pagamento di un riscatto da parte dell'armatore, a quanto ha fatto capire il capo di Stato maggiore delle Forze armate francesi, Jean-Luois Georgelin.
By: Ultime notizie
France: Hostages held off Somalia freed
2008-04-11 14:43:00 PARIS (AP) - Pirates have freed 30 hostages who were held aboard a French tourist yacht off Somalia's coast for the past week, France's president said Friday.
By: Get rich
French ship with 6 Filipinos hijacked
2008-04-08 23:48:00 Six Filipino seafarers were held hostage by unknown parties following the hijacking of the Le Ponant, a French cruise vessel where the Filipinos are working, last April 4 in international waters in the Gulf of Aden, the Department of Foreign affairs said Tuesday. The six hostages are five males and one female. Undersecretary for Foreign ...
SOMALIA: Raising awareness against FGM in Puntland
2008-04-08 00:23:00 Source: IRIN NEWS SOMALIA: Raising awareness against FGM in Puntland Photo: Abdi S. Hassan/IRIN A sign against FGM BOSASSO, 7 April 2008 (IRIN) - Halima [not her real name], a mother of five girls, shudders whenever she remembers how she suffered after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM/Cutting), a practice still widespread in Somalia. “I will not put ...
Pirati predono in ostaggio 30 pesone a largo della Somalia, Notizie dal mon
2008-04-05 15:44:00 Autore: Ultime Notizie Agenzia di pubblicità Oggetto: Pirati predono in ostaggio 30 pesone a largo della Somalia Inviato: Dom Apr 06, 2008 12:44 am (GMT 11) Un lussuoso tre alberi francese, il Ponant, con una trentina di uomini di equipaggio è stato abbordato da pirati al la:rgo delle coste somale. L'imbarcazione della compagna delle Isles de Ponant cile fa capo al gruppo Cma-Cgm è finita nelle mani degli aggressori. Per tutta la sera si sono persi anche i contatti radio con il veliero. Il Ponant, lungo 88 metri e largo 12, ha 32 cabine per 64 ospiti, strutturata su quattro ponti l'imbarcazione senza viaggiatori a bordo, era in fase di trasferimento dalle isole Seychelles verso il Mediterraneo dove era prevista una crociera in partenza il 21 aprile da Alessandria di Egitto. Mentre navigava nelle acque del golfo di Aden, allargo delle coste somale, l'imbarcazione è stata assalita dai pirati che infestano l'area. Lo scorso anno sono stati registrati in quelle acq...
By: Ultime notizie
Somalia Called 'World's Most Neglected Crisis' - OneWorld.net
2008-04-04 01:42:00 Somalia Called 'World's Most Neglected Crisis'OneWorld.net, U-K - 2 hours agoIn releasing a new report this week, the US-based Refugees International (RI) called Somalia "without a doubt the most neglected crisis in the world today" ...
News: Ethiopia's forgotten war
2008-04-02 22:56:00 Ridwan Hassan Sahid awoke under a pile of corpses to a pricking sensation on her face. Ants were biting her eyelids and the inside of her mouth. The pain, however, brought relief to the 17-year-old. "I thought, 'I'm alive,' " she thought as blood oozing from rope burns around her neck. Fearing that the Ethiopian soldiers who had left her for dead in a roadside ditch would return, she brushed away the ants and shut her eyes, then slipped back into unconsciousness.The brutal assault and her escape mark a chilling story to emerge from an unfolding but hidden tragedy in eastern Ethiopia.Ever since exiting colonialists arbitrarily stuck a triangle-shaped wedge of land with 4 million ethnic Somalis inside Ethiopia's border, violence and suffering have plagued the region. Now, many of them have been caught up in a nasty war between the Ethiopian government and a separatist group known as the Ogaden National Liberation Front, which gets little media attention. (Full)Picture courtesy Cri...
IRIN film Somalia: A State of Need - December 2006
2008-04-01 12:26:00 Source: IRIN Somalia: A State of Need - December 2006 After years of conflict and isolation, Somalia finds itself once more in turmoil. Much of the country was under the control of the Union of Islamic Courts, until their recent defeat. View Transcript [English] [English] [Duration: 18:34]
Gaaf Poetry
2008-03-30 19:49:00 Once the drumming starts and the Gaaf is initiated, silence fills the air. Every ear is tuned towards the person reciting the poetry or singing, in order to assess and judge the worth of his/her words. Addressing everyone present, the young girl starts the ceremony with these lines: Hoobe hobaala hoobala hoobalow Ee hoobe hobaala hoobalayey hadaba Salaamu ...
Madness In Somalia Goes On And On
2008-03-30 17:53:00 The ongoing slaughter of the innocent continued in Somalia when Ethiopian soldiers blasted the market area in Mogadishu after being attacked by Muslim militants. Anti-government Muslim militants sent some mortars in the direction of Ethiopan troops who were guarding the hilltop complex of Vill Somlia and hit their position. In response Ethiopian forces sent shells ...
Somalia declared free of polio
2008-03-29 20:22:00 Source: AlertNet INTERVIEW-Somalia declared free of polio 25 Mar 2008 09:44:56 GMT <!– 25 Mar 2008 09:44:56 GMT ## for search indexer, do not remove –> Source: Reuters By Laura MacInnis GENEVA, March 25 (Reuters) - A vaccination ...
sad somalia
2008-03-28 06:29:00 The country almost 17 years to live in conditions of civil war and humanitarian disaster that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, is Somalia
By: Attuworld
Danger, Again, in Somalia
2008-03-26 15:48:00 After the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) was driven from power in Somalia by Ethiopian troops 15 months ago, the region, and its ongoing turmoil, largely fell from public view and the the official policy agenda. That is a serious mistake. As this BBC story shows, the radical Islamists have regrouped, have increased their ability to strike across the country, and are more formally allied with al Qaeda than in the past. The most important of the Islamist groups now fighting is al Shabab (meaning "The Lads,"...(read more)
Somalia In Chaos Claim Aid Workers
2008-03-26 15:10:00 Top international aid agencies warned that the situation in Somalia had become too dangerous for its workers to provide assistance to one million Somali people caught in the ever escalating war that rages in their nation. Thirty-nine organizations issued their warning of an impending humanitarian catastrophe ahead of the United Nations Security Council debate tomorrow. ...
Somali Cultural Weddings - Gaaf
2008-03-18 00:26:00 As the sun plummets down the horizon, the joyous people of the village depart company after the Gelbis to prepare for the more interesting part of the ceremony and the festivities continue through the night. Demonstrative of the happy times they are having, everyone in the village as well as the neighbouring settlements ...
Somali Cultural Weddings - Gelbis
2008-03-10 18:50:00 The Gelbis (escorting the bride to her new home), as I said earlier, is the occasion that marks the commencement of the wedding ceremony. And this (above left) is how it starts, with the women slowly making their way to the hut ululating, drumming and singing songs of praise and various wedding songs ... |
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