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...“Somalia is coming from 30 years of no governments or weak governments where there were either no laws or the laws were not respected,” says Awes Haji Yusuf Ahmed, a veteran political adviser to the president...
...Starting on June 6, DD is launching a Saturday newsletter in collaboration with the FT’s sports editor Murad Ahmed and his team....
...That message is consistent across western governments, said Ahmed Soliman, a Horn of Africa expert at Chatham House in London....
...Talent spotters have orders from Michael Zorc, a former Dortmund captain who is now the club’s sporting director, to watch a teenage American forward called Haji Wright....
...EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou launched easyProperty this autumn, while veteran investor Neil Woodford backed PurpleBricks this summer....
...“The general atmosphere is not that favourable to speed up the dialogue,” said Hicham Haji, an independent analyst in Tunis....
...Since the spring, Mr Karzai has been forced to bury a series of prominent allies, most notably his brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, who was one of the most influential men in the south until he was shot dead in...
...The valley was the redoubt of the late Ahmed Shah Massoud, a guerrilla whose defence against Russian invaders earned him the nickname “The Lion of Panjshir.”...
...Haji Obaidullah, Shah Wali Kot’s leader, complained that the district’s choice of delegate to a planned meeting in Kabul to discuss reconciliation with the Taliban had been overruled by “power brokers” in...
...; and Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, its chief in Saudi Arabia....
...“It is a very old and effective tactic,” says Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani expert on Afghanistan and the Taliban....
...The transitional federal government headed by President Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed now exercises no authority on land or at sea....
...Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the highest-profile entrepreneur recruited to the council, said: “I agreed to be included in the group of entrepreneurs because I was assured it will be non-partisan.”...
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