But the millions of dollars they demand in ransom payments are not used to help pastoral communities and in-land towns.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The vast reddish desert that covers much of Somalia's central Mudug region has always been a source of wealth, as well as calamity, for thousands of pastoral families.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

"I cannot see that there is a direct responsibility by Ratzinger for the reassignment of Huellermann to pastoral work - maybe an indirect one because that's where the buck stops, so to speak."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01