Disneyland launches modern-day pirates ride
Families will now experience a 21st century African hi-jack by real Somali warlords wielding Kalashnikovs
Posted: Nov 26th, 2009
More from From The Archives
Posts Tagged ‘Somalia’
Somalia laments another year of Wimbledon frustration
Endemic tribal warfare, drought, disease, poverty – they are all major concerns to the 4.7 million people of Somalia, but not compared with the certain knowledge that, even as the tournament starts, the winner of the Mens Singles at Wimbledon will not be a Somali. No Somali has ever qualified since Wimbledon began in 1882.
Ibn Hussain Tariri, chief excecutive of the Lawn Tennis Association of Somalia, is the first to admit that the African nation’s record at tennis’s blue riband is not good. However, he is keen for this to be seen in context.
‘People laugh at us for 127 years of failure at Wimbledon but in all fairness it is only 93,’ he says. ‘It was not until 1916 that the Italian governor general laid out the first court in the country.’
Posted: Jun 23rd, 2009
More from Sport
Anti-piracy film to be shown in Somalia
The UN Security Council has announced a major tactical shift in the war against Somali pirates today. Highly-trained special ops teams will be deployed deep into the war-torn territory, where armed with projectors and pull-down movie screens they will show a new version of the classic anti-piracy film that British movie fans have sat through at the beginning of every commercially produced DVD for years.
Posted: May 30th, 2009
More from World News
Somali pirates to wear more traditional outfits
Pirates off the coast of Somalia have been undergoing a radical re-branding exercise in a bid to help increase public sympathy with their cause. Henceforth cargo ships risking the dangerous waters off the horn of Africa will have to look out for Somalis wearing eighteenth-century frock coats, eye patches and black hats featuring the distinctive ’skull and crossbones’ logo. A spokesman for the new-look Somali privateers explained the shift to more traditional pirate attire; ‘Aha, Jim lad, thar be pieces of eight in that there Spanish galleon!’, after which the ‘pieces of eight’ point was re-iterated several times by the green parrots on his left shoulder.
Posted: Apr 21st, 2009
More from World News
