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    • By Abdi Guled

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    Associated Press

    Tuesday, December 4, 2012

    • **FILE** A Somali internally-displaced child looks out from her family's makeshift home in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Nov. 29, 2012. (Associated Press)

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      **FILE** A Somali internally-displaced child looks out from her family’s makeshift home ... more >

    Lamented one refugee mother, Hawalul Ibrahim Maalin: “Mogadishu is going to be for the rich. And for the poor and refugees, the awful bush.”

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