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Mafia island is not exclusively for mobsters…

Author: newsroom | Published: September 9, 2015

No need to go ‘packing’…as it not at all for ‘mafioso’

The island of Mafia has nothing to do with any of the characters in ‘The Goodfellas’, or ‘The Godfather’, except of course if Robert De Niro or Joe Pesci happened to visit the archipelago of Tanzania. The island’s airport named ‘Mafia Airport’ is located in Tanzania. It’s name derives from the Arabic word ‘morfiyeh’, which means archipelago.

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