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Returning to her native home in Somalia after being raised in North America and suffering a failed marriage, self-reliant Cambara struggles to reclaim her family's home from a warlord and finds support from a group of women activists.

Presents a chilling exploration of the Somali pirate phenomenon and forces you to rethink everything you thought you knew about pirates.

Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the Dadaab refugee camp, sketching the wider political forces that keep the Somalian refugees trapped.

"The Somali novelist and playwright Nuruddin Farah (b. 1945) has lived in exile since 1974, and much of his writing is concerned with the impact that years of military dictatorship (primarily that of Siyad Barre) have had on the lives of ordinary Somalis. Farah's best-known novels - From a Crooked Rib (1970), Sweet and Sour Milk (1979), Maps (1986), and Gifts (1990) - have made him an influential presence in postcolonial literature, one whose political...

Somalia is a war torn country in the Horn of Africa contested by feuding warlords and the center of pirate activity in the Arabia Sea.

Welcome to Bermuda, an enclave in South Mogadishu where, they say, those who go in never come back. Every street leads into enemy territory, and fighters never sleep for fear of attack. It's a place that most journalists simply don't visit. This documentary goes deep inside Somalia's most dangerous areas for a close look at the anarchy that followed the failed U.S. intervention there, and the role of the Islamic court in trying to restore order. Riding...

An operation to abduct a Somali warlord in 1993 Mogadishu leaves 18 Americans dead, 70 wounded and several helicopters destroyed. Filled with imagery--a Somali gunman attacks, riding a cow, a gunwoman fights with a baby on her arm--the book is based on interviews with participants on both sides. The testimony illustrates the military's arrogance and the hate it engendered in the population. By a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, author of Bringing...

This reference text explains what modern piracy is, where and why it happens, and what measures are being taken to combat it. Piracy is alive and well in modern world. Armed with sophisticated tools like GPS locators and cell phones, today's pirates prey on both commercial and private vessels, and their attacks have far-reaching effects. Piracy today typically occurs in specific areas, such as Somalia and Southeast Asia, a single pirate attack can...

In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia. As Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter fought for the presidency in late 1976, the superpower struggle overseas seemed to take a backseat to more contentious domestic issues of race relations and rising unemployment. There was one continent, however, where the Cold War was on the point of flaring hot: Africa. Jimmy Carter in Africa opens...