finally, the puzzle of the missing supermodel is solved. After two days of a massive police hunt, the Somali born Model and activist was found wandering around at the Grote Markt (the Grand Place - Historic Town Square) and claimed that she had lost her way after after leaving a Disco in the early morning. Waris Dirie, has been on the forefront of women's rights campaign, specifically against the age-old practice of female genital mutilation, practiced in many parts of Africa. Recently, another African model Katoucha Niane, who campaigned against female circumcision was found dead, floating on river Siene.Waris Dirie, naturalized Austrian citizen was born in Somalia in 1965 . According to her memoirs, she was married off to a 61 year old man, when she was 13 and her family was given five camels in exchange. She fled to Britain and lived there illegally, until British photographer Terence Donovan put her on the 87 Pirelli Calendar.
As a United nation's Goodwill ambasaddor, she was planning to attend a conference in Brussels on the occassion of International Women's day.
Other than modelling, Dirie has written four books (Desert Dawn, Desert Children, Desert Flower and "a letter to my mother") and also had a brief role in James Bond movie - "the living daylights".
