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love is like a gamble
mapenzi ni bahari

i can see you are trying to gamble with kiswahili
uraibu wa kamari

it was a desperate, high-risk gamble by shabaab to reverse its prospects.
ilikuwa ni karata ya kukata tamaa, isiyo na uhakika iliyochezwa na al-shabaab kujaribu kurudi kwenye malengo yake.

menkhaus went on to argue that this latest gamble by the group was an attempt to reframe the terms of the conflict in somalia:
menkhaus aliendelea kusihi kwamba karata hii ya hivi karibuni iliyochezwa na kikundi hicho ilikuwa ni jaribio la kutengeneza upya vigezo na masharti ya mgogoro unaoendelea somalia: