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AFRICANEWSWIRE.NET (June, 14 2012)
What else do we need for a bouillabaisse?
DESPITE the obvious risks, Badel Sheikh Mohamed is buying glass windows to replace the metal shutters on his print shop, Sign Jet, near the central K4 roundabout. It is a small act of faith in the future of the war-torn Somali capital that would have been unthinkable until recently. Inside, the printers are busier than ever before, turning out colourful hoardings to advertise new enterprises. Shopkeepers, restaurant owners, travel agents and remittance brokers are his best customers, many returning from abroad after decades in exile. Existing businesses have started to replace handwritten signs with laser-printed ones. “A year ago there was nothing opening,” Mr Sheikh Mohamed says, before warning against taking progress for granted in a city where war has long been the norm. “We think it will be peace and better than peace, but there’s no guarantee.”Heavy bombing was always rare in Mogadishu but small-arms fire incessantly chiselled away at the city after the 1991 collapse of the central government under Mohamed Siad Barre, a socialist...
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