But instead of rushing to get venture capital, Al and Jim wanted to bootstrap things.
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By teaming up with Sharia Capital, Al-Safi aims to provide a platform that is constantly monitored for compliance by a Sharia board.
The BBC's Abdullahi Abdi, reporting from Kenya, says that the number of suicide attacks in Mogadishu has decreased since the withdrawal of al-Shabab from the capital in August 2011.
The weapons were found by soldiers of the 5th Brigade of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, which has been patrolling the capital's Al-Rashid district, reported CNN producer Tomas Etzler, who is embedded with the unit.
African Union troops pushed al-Shabab from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in August 2011.
Uzbekistan, quarterfinalists for the past two tournaments, take on two-time runners-up China at Al Gharafa Stadium also in the capital.
African Union troops forced al-Shabab out of the capital in 2011 but the group still controls wide swaths of south-central Somalia.
The shells fell on Tishreen Sport City Stadium in the al-Baramkeh neighborhood of the capital, the Syrian Arab News Agency said.
The 360-nautical mile Dubai-Muscat Offshore Sailing Race began on 26 November and ended two days later in the Omani capital's Bandar Al-Rawdah marina.
He has more than 45 years of experience in the technology industry and is now chairman, president, and CEO of Al Shugart International, a venture capital and public relations firm.
Six pictures have been loaned by the Tate to Sultan Qaboos' Al-Alam palace in the Omani capital of Muscat.
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But Somali security forces have succeeded in pre-empting many suicide attacks and have arrested some of the Al-Shabaab operatives hiding among the capital's population.
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Five years after Al Gore joined the prestigious venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins to back environmentally correct companies, the collaboration has yielded few successful exits for Mr. Gore and his partners, along with some spectacular disasters.
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Al Bayda was for a time the capital of the Sanussi dynasty that Colonel Qaddafi overthrew in 1969, and the new regime transferred power from Jebel Akhdar's elite to the tribesmen of the interior and the townsfolk of Tripoli.
Al-Ra'y TV is owned by Iraqi businessman Mishan al-Juburi and based in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
An African Union panel will travel to both Khartoum and Juba -- the South Sudan capital -- to meet with al-Bashir and South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit before the two leaders attend a summit.
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It is now apparent that President Bush will have his troop buildup in Baghdad in full, and with it, one more chance to help the government of Nouri al-Maliki restore order in the Iraqi capital.
Sadr City, the scene of Tuesday's deadly blast, is a stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and where some of the capital's most intense fighting in recent months has occurred between Shiite militia members and Iraqi security forces.
The al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab lost control of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, to AU and Somali government forces in 2011.
On March 21st he dispatched his foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to ask the Saudis to back him.
For years Sameer Al Ansari, the chief executive at Dubai International Capital, was trying to recruit the Hong Kong investor as a director on his board.
But at the same time Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, at a meeting in his capital, Khartoum, with France's new foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, insisted that only Africans should be deployed.
One of its cameramen in Benghazi, a Qatari national, was killed earlier this month by pro-Qaddafi gunmen, and an Al Jazeera crew remains in detention in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was scheduled to travel to the southern capital of Juba earlier this month to meet with his counterpart Salva Kiir.
France intervened after saying the al-Qaeda-linked militants threatened to march on the capital, Bamako.
Al-Sadr initially urged a massive demonstration Wednesday in the capital against the U.S. presence in Iraq to coincide with the anniversary of Baghdad's fall.
The improved security environment in Mogadishu is an opportunity to be seized, but the toughest challenge remains to find ways to reach out to those suffering outside the capital, in areas still under the control of al-Shabab.
Al-Bashir met Tuesday with the Ethiopian foreign minister in the capital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's information ministry said.
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There are about 18, 000 US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan tracking al-Qaeda and Taleban militants, with security patchy outside the capital Kabul.
"Everyone knows that the Iraqi government is one elected by the Iraqi people, and no one puts timetables or restrictions other than the Iraqi people who elected the government, " al-Maliki said Wednesday during a visit to Syria's capital, Damascus.
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