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language teachers have a crucial role to play in helping students negotiate interpersonal and intercultural divides, retaining a sense of individual and cultural difference even as they open themselves to new worldviews and the potential for shifts in their own identities. Before this can happen, however, teachers themselves need extensive experience of negotiating such divides in their own lives, including their learning and teaching practices. Thanks to the advent of e-learning technologies such as online discussion forums, which minimise geographical and practical barriers to intercultural encounters, today’s education programmes can give teachers some of the necessary exposure.

Most of war-ravaged central and southern Somalia is now controlled by al-Shabab, an Islamist group which the US believes has links to al-Qaeda.