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‘We sell what we collect’: In Kismayo, displaced women turn acacia seeds into a lifeline KISMAYO, Somalia — Before sunrise on the outskirts of this southern port city, groups of women shoulder sacks and long sticks and set out from the internal displacement camps. They walk together into the scrub outside Kismayo, toward stands of acacia trees where, with a shake and a thud, their day’s earnings fall to the ground. Their harvest — tiny, brown acacia seeds, locally known as abqo — has become a fragile but vital income stream.…

UK man jailed 14 years for selling suicide chemical online in landmark case A man who sold a chemical online to vulnerable people seeking to end their lives has been jailed for 14 years in what is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind in the UK. Miles Cross, 33, set up a business selling the substance through an internet discussion forum and operated under a pseudonym, Mold Crown Court heard. Prosecutors said Cross posted a QR code that allowed buyers to pay him directly via his bank account and directed them to…

A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for stealing and selling body parts donated for scientific research, the U.S. Justice Department said, in a case that rattled one of the nation’s premier medical institutions and exposed a shadow market for human remains. Cedric Lodge, 58, pleaded guilty in May to trafficking stolen remains from 2018 through at least March 2020. Prosecutors said the items included internal organs, brains, skin, hands, faces and dissected heads…

Hawo Salad Cali, a resilient woman living on the fringes of Baidoa, transforms hardship into a lifeline by selling bones she gathers in the Buur camp. With determination etched into her daily routine, she turns what many might overlook into sustenance for her family. Let’s meet Maydigo Omar Yarow, a 60-year-old widowed mother of six, whose day begins long before sunrise. She embarks on a journey to a livestock slaughterhouse on the outskirts of Baidoa. Her mission: to gather discarded bones and hides, which she sells to…

Somalia: Farmajo accused of "selling" soldiers to fight TPLF in Tigray MOGADISHU, Somalia - Outgoing Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has again come under pressure on a number of young people who are said to be training in Eritrea, following reports that they have participated in the Tigray war which has left thousands dead in the north. from Ethiopia. A report filed by the UN…