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Hunted in Mogadishu by the Sick Man and the Jilbab

The tick-tock of being followed around in Somalia

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

From a way off, as he entered the café, he looked young and handsome but when he sat down there was something wrong in that face. He moved like a man with a terminal illness. For no particular reason I decided he was carrying a bomb in his briefcase. I felt the urge to run, to escape this crowded place.

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