Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Mogadishu is losing a label it never wanted in the first place: The World's Most Dangerous City. The seaside Somali capital is enjoying a peace that, except for the ...

(Recasts with UNHCR comment) By Sahal Abdulle MOGADISHU, April 25 (Reuters) - The Somali capital Mogadishu is becoming a "ghost city" as residents flee a government offensive to crush Islamist ...

A weekend of violence in Mogadishu has set off another wave of displacement from the war-torn capital, sending thousands more Somalis from their homes. Aid workers describe this latest round of ...

Diini Sabrie spoke to his longtime friend Ahmed AbdiKarin Eyow for the last time on Oct. 14. The two exchanged messages that Saturday afternoon about Eyow’s trip to Mogadishu and what it felt like for ...

Dismayed that victims of the incessant violence in Somalia’s capital were being rolled to hospitals on wooden carts and in wheelbarrows, a dentist decided to do something about it. By Abdi Latif Dahir ...

Omar Degan was born in Italy to Somali parents who fled before the African nation’s civil war. He’s now helping rebuild the country by looking to the past to build for the future. By Abdi Latif Dahir ...

Many of Mogadishu’s buildings still bear the scars of war, their stone facades bullet-riddled and their walls blown out. But the Somali government spokesman, Abdirahman Omar Osman, argues that ...