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Somalian Woman Makes Her Mark in the Camel Trade

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Sep 17, 2019
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Somalia is often viewed through a Western lens as war torn and ravaged. The country experienced a protracted and bloody civil war between the government and Islamist insurgents beginning in 1986 with an estimated death toll up to 1 million people.

But, this is an incomplete view of the nation. In 2012, the successful campaigns to curtail the insurgents l…

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