I think its a major blow to the nations medical fraternity. It takes six years to produce a doctor, and within a fraction of a second, all that has disappeared. A week ago,Dr.Laroche was in Somalia and met with the minister of health.

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"Some positive signals have appeared in the last weeks, including the evolution of the financial markets, improvement in business expectations and some real indicators, such as export data in Asia,pointing, all of them, to a stabilization of the economy in the second part of this year and a gradual recovering in 2010,".

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