Anshar

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Anshar - the Babylonian father of the gods; identified with Assyrian Ashur; in Sumerian the name signifies `the totality of the upper world'

Babylon - the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia

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It is clear that the Somali government is furious with the Kenyan military.On the state broadcaster's website, Telecommunication Minister Abdi Anshur Hassan said "an enemy" had openly attacked the Somali economy.

Kenya 'destroying mobile phone masts in Somalia'

| PARIS, May 25 (KUNA) -- The French government on Friday condemned the killing Thursday in Somalia of radio journalist Ahmed Ado Anshur, who was gunned down as he returned to his home in the capital, Mogadishu.

France condemns killing of Somali journalist, defends press freedom

"Hungry people are only waiting for death," said Nor Anshur, a father of five who lost one of his children in the Bay region, a former agricultural breadbasket that the UN declared Somalia's sixth famine zone.