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Like the proverbial phoenix, Somalia is rising from the ashes

Somalia's newly elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo attends his inauguration ceremony in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, February 22, 2017. [REUTERS]

We are not about to winnow any grains, as the tittle seems to allude to.
A recent discussion which has picked steam is that stories about Africa have been synonymous with everything injurious - tales of anarchy, violence, famine, displacements, corruption, and impunity and so on.

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