Children run in turquoise water, hawkers tout wares on white sands, and families laugh as tourists disembark from small boats ...

Friday is beach day in Mogadishu. Early in the day before Friday prayers and before the sun gets too hot, people flock to Liido Beach on the eastern side of the city. "This is a very important place," ...

Police in Somalia said Saturday that 32 people died and 63 others were wounded in an attack on a beach hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, the previous evening. Al Qaeda's East Africa affiliate, ...