 "The Economist (US)")
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The path to ruin - The Horn of Africa.(The threat of war plus uncontrolled population growth)
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Islamist militia guard Mogadishu
A region endangered by Islamists, guns and its own swelling population
BOSSASO is an exit point from the Horn of Africa and it is bursting. This port in northern Somalia already has 300,000 people, up from 50,000 in the 1990s. More arrive each day. It is a raw place: entrepreneurial, resilient, armed to the teeth. It is also diseased, inadequate and famished. The port's champions reckon it could spread along the inky blue shore like a little Dubai, prospering on exports of livestock and frankincense. But such a future, which now looks a ...
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