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Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
Unfortunately, the demographic information for these people is very scarce. Since they are mostly merchants, nobody ever really paid attention to them.
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While I can only talk of one country in West Africa with any degree of expertise, the same was true of this country. All the shop owners were arab/muslim in this non muslim country. Their profits were not put back into the country but sent to the homeland. You knew they were all linked because as one or another event that might put them in jeopardy took place all the shops would close as close to simultaneously as possible. Because they performed a valuable service for the country no one bothered them and once outside their shops they were basically invisible. I have no doubt that they worked clandestine nets in support of one another and in one case that targeted the little group I was with, in support of another country that had designs on overthrowing the government in power.
Jack Moroney