Word: somaliland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between the Kenyan government and heavily armed bands of poachers set on pursuing the illegal trade in ivory, rhinoceros horns and leopard and lion skins. Richard Leakey, the noted paleoanthropologist who directs Kenya's wildlife service, said the killers would probably turn out to be poachers from neighboring Somaliland. These nomads are paid almost nothing for the hacked-off trophies, which are later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars in Asian and Middle Eastern markets...
...Addis Ababa, eldest son of Britain's Minister to Ethiopia, his formative memories were of camels, tents, festooned warriors and "sitting beside my father in the twilight above a gorge, hoping he would get a shot at a leopard." At age seven, Thesiger accompanied his father to Somaliland, where the British were fighting dervishes under the command of the Mad Mullah. A few weeks later the boy was watching shells burst over the Turkish lines in the Yemen...