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Somali government has strongly condemned the hijacking of the SEA WORLD vessel, which was en route to Mogadishu carrying military and commercial cargo, calling the seizure a violation of both national ...
Artist Maslah Abdi Dahi has made it his mission to nurture creativity in Somalia's Mogadishu, where artistic pursuits are ...
A Ugandan military helicopter deployed with the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia crashed at Mogadishu airport on Wednesday, killing five passengers, a Ugandan military spokesperson said.
War-torn Mogadishu has for decades been known for the lawlessness and poverty governing its streets. But today, things are starting to change as hope gradually returns to parts of the East African ...
Puntland leader Said Abdullahi Deni and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud have differed over electoral controls.
Mogadishu's designation as the World's Most Dangerous City was unofficial, of course, but widely applied. The U.N. and embassies pulled out in the 1990s, following the collapse of the last fully ...
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Somalia’s capital Mogadishu now has its first-ever ATM bank machine – and it dispenses U.S. dollars. The machine was installed in late September in the upscale Jazeera Palace Hotel, which is ...
From Minneapolis To Mogadishu, Somali-Americans Try To Help Survivors of Bomb Attack Workers in Somalia's capital Mogadishu are still searching through the wreckage created by large truck bomb set ...
A suicide bomb targeting a senior police official killed nine people in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday — the second deadly terrorist attack in the besieged city this month.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — There are so many ways to die in Mogadishu. You can walk, as an old lady here recently did, into the path of a roadside bomb planted by Islamic rebels.
Mogadishu, the capital war-torn city of Somalia, is losing a label it never wanted in the first place: The World's Most Dangerous City.