Most of the early users were young men who worked in cities and wanted to send money home to rural areas.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

In the early months of the war, Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, did not even have guns enough for the men in his army.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

In initial reports, senior Somali military and police officials said a foreigner approached government soldiers near the Villa Somalia presidential palace in Mogadishu early Wednesday, identifying himself as one of the French men abducted by gunmen at the Sahafi Hotel last month.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26