http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6168807.stm Good news that a brave Somali man has defied convention and familial censure to marry a woman of lower caste? Or bad, because his reason was that: “She is beautiful, polite, obedient to me, pious and God-fearing, so there was no reason not to marry her.” (Also: three separate mobile phone companies do business in Somalia, even though different areas are controlled by rival warlords, and (since there’s no functioning government) no real way to enforce contracts.) 23:50