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SOMALIA SHOCKWAVES

he exact number has never been confirmed. It could be 500. It could be 1,000. What is certain is that the number of people who died on 14 October 2017 when a car bomb exploded during rush hour at Zoobe junction, a busy thoroughfare in Mogadishu,

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