Community Coordinator Fatima Jama, left, and Director Sabah Yusuf,center, of the Aishah Center For Women. pose with Fadumo Abdinur and stand inside Abdinur's 10-foot-by-10-foot booth at a Somali Mall Wednesday March 19, 2008 in south Minneapolis. Jama and Yusuf are coordinating an effort to open a 10,000- to 15,000-square-foot cooperative department store in Minneapolis owned and operated by Somali women. The Department store would sell African imports and would cater to a broader audience and allow many Somali women shopkeepers like Abdinur to expand their business. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella)

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