With al-Shabab pushed out of many areas in Somalia’s Galmudug and Hirshabelle states, clan-based violence saw an uptick. The ...

Al-Shabaab has previously targeted the Lido area, which is popular with business people and government members as well as ordinary Somalis, including a siege on a beachside hotel in June 2023 that ...

Moreover, tourist money often doesn’t go to the local economy but to big international brands (think: hotels ... with regular attacks wreaking havoc on innocent people. When I arrived at Mogadishu ...

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