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African Union peacekeepers based in Mogadishu have an acronym for the guerrilla war in Somalia, VUCA, meaning volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous.
From a distance, they hear echoing blasts of heavy weaponry. A Mogadishu district is under...
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