Residents shop for mobile phone handsets at a shopping center in Mogadishu November 4, 2009. Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population of the Horn of Africa nation. Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 27 months ago

Residents shop for mobile phone handsets at a shopping center in Mogadishu November 4, 2009. Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population of the Horn of Africa nation.

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