The world's most dangerous place : inside the outlaw state of Somalia / James Fergusson.
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TextPublisher: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]Edition: First Da Capo Press editionDescription: 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780306821172
- 0306821176
- 967.73053 23
- DT407.4 .F47 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index.
Part 1. Living on the line. An African Stalingrad : the war against al-Shabaab ; At the Bancroft Hotel : America's proxy war ; The field hospital : what bombs and bullets do to people ; Aden's story ; The failure of Somali politics ; What makes al-Shabaab tick? ; The famine -- Part 2. Nomads' land. In the court of King Farole ; Galkacyo : Pirateville ; Hargeisa nights ; How to start a border war -- Part 3. The diaspora. The Somali youth time-bomb ; The missing of Minneapolis ; 'Clanism is a disease like AIDS' ; Operation Linda Nchi : the end for al-Shabaab?
This is an authoritative account of the Somali region, its history, and the story of the Islamic extremists operating there today cites the high human cost of the region's clan-based civil war while explaining how current activities are directly threatening world security.
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