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Somalia: how women are rebuilding Mogadishu – video

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As Somalia emerges from civil war and the influence of Islamist insurgents al-Shabaab, it is women who are rebuilding the economy according to businesswomen in Mogadishu, and students and the rector of the University of Somalia, who says: 'It is the women the economy relies on. The men are there for fighting'

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