Since January 2007, residents of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, have been gripped by a terrifying campaign of violence that has killed and injured hundreds of civilians, provoked the largest and ...

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But the lighthouse is quiet and it is safe—if anyplace in Mogadishu can be considered ... who share the same Islamic faith and the Somali language, and until the colonial era in the late 19th ...

I always meet remarkable and resilient people in Mogadishu. A Somali restaurateur who has survived multiple suicide bombers and ardently refuses to go back to London, a young fashion designer ...

Al-Shabaab is rapidly closing in on Mogadishu, threatening commercial and military shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian ...