Recent Mogadishu News

Street lamps give hope in Mogadishu – AFP

Peaceful interlude in Mogadishu raises hopes of end to Somalia violence – The Guardian

Somali opens Mogadishu’s first dry cleaners in decades – BBC News

Swimming off Mogadishu, a sense of hope – Reuters

Beyond Black Hawk Down: A visit to contemporary Mogadishu – Vanity Fair

A Taste of Hope in Somalia’s Battered Capital – New York Times

Is Al-Shabab on the Way Out in Somalia? – Newsweek

Somalia: Mogadishu On the Up – AllAfrica

Life Returning to Normal in Mogadishu – VOA

We’re Winning This Fight – Foreign Policy

About Mogadishu

Mogadishu is the largest city in Somalia and the nation’s capital. Located in the coastal Benadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for centuries. Tradition and old records assert that southern Somalia, including the Mogadishu area, was historically inhabited by hunter-gatherers of Bushman physical stock. These were later joined by Cushitic agro-pastoralists, who would go on to establish local aristocracies. Starting in the late 9th or 10th centuries, Arab and Persian traders also began to settle in the region.

During its medieval Golden Age, Mogadishu was ruled by the Somali-Arab Muzaffar dynasty, a vassal of the Ajuuraan State. It subsequently fell under the control of an assortment of local Sultanates and polities, most notably the Gobroon Dynasty. The city later became the capital of Italian Somaliland in the colonial period.