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Residents shop for mobile phone handsets at a shopping center in Mogadishu
04 Nov 2009
Source: Reuters
 
Residents shop for mobile phone handsets at a shopping center in Mogadishu November 4, 2009. Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population of the Horn of Africa nation. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA CONFLICT SOCIETY BUSINESS)
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Residents shop for mobile phone handsets at a shopping center in Mogadishu November 4, 2009. Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive ...


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