Kenyan/AU/"others" nearly finished (again) cleansing Somalia of bad guys

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Kenya doesn't have the same negative reputation in Somalia Ethiopia has (which is putting it very mildly, Ethiopia is probably about as popular in Somalia as Saddam Hussein was in Iraqi Kurdistan...)

Yes...there is a large Somali minority in eastern Ethiopia the Ethiopians have not always played nice with.

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I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK WMS that was very informative!

Yes, n00bz, this is what you were missing back in the day.  Real life political members who know everything about things you know nothing about!

fyi, in case anyone was planning on visiting Somaliland, I have a linguist friend who was thinking about doing fieldwork there, and you have to fly to the UAE, take buses(!) to Nairobi(!!!), then talk to some guy in some sketchy house, who will first turn you down and insist he has no idea what you're talking about (this is apparently in the guidebook), then you have to bribe him and he'll take you to the guy who will drive you up to Hargeysa.

Yep.

Wait, what? Why can't you fly to Nairobi?

You can, I know people who have. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi_International_Airport