Mogadishu

The head of the ambulance service in Mogadishu said it had been overwhelmed by the number of injured civilians.

Authorities say hundreds of camps just like Badbaado have sprung up in and around Mogadishu over the past three months.

In 1997, she was one of six entrepreneurs who founded NationLink, a telecom operator, in Mogadishu.

The new plan comes as a polio case is confirmed in Mogadishu, Somalia, a country which had been polio-free since 2002.

She said improved security in Mogadishu meant the UN was now able to step up relief efforts.

Under heavy fire they captured Mogadishu's old military hospital, which had been a Shabab stronghold.

Now, to the horror of those trying to put Mogadishu back together again, the north is beginning to crack too.

Though Nigeria's generals say they are ready to deploy a battalion in Mogadishu, it is unlikely to go, despite American urging.

But the government has so far been unable to assert control over more than a few blocks of the capital, Mogadishu.

Somalia's central government controls little more than a few blocks around the presidential palace in Mogadishu and the airport.

Still for many, it is hard to understand why it is taking so long to get food, some of which has reached Mogadishu port.

At least seven people were killed in Mogadishu late Wednesday as government forces traded shell and gunfire with al-Shabab insurgents.

Thousands of civilians continue to flee the capital Mogadishu where the militants are battling against the transitional government.

Somali government forces and AMISOM have pushed al-Shabab out of Mogadishu and have made gains in other parts of the country.

UNDP chief Osman Ali Ahmed was gunned down at close range Sunday evening as he returned home from evening prayers at a mosque in Mogadishu.

Displaced hope: Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees have fled the fighting in Mogadishu since civil war broke out in 1991.

A BBC correspondent in Mogadishu said the soldiers made off with two truckloads of food.

It has a president, prime minister and parliament, but with little influence outside a few strongholds in the capital, Mogadishu.

Islamist insurgents and pro-government forces in Somalia are fighting in an area near the presidential palace in the capital, Mogadishu.

CNOOC is braving insecurity and political uncertainty as an insurgency against the interim government continues in Mogadishu, the capital.

Enraged Somalis dragged the body of the slain Black Hawk crew chief through the streets of Mogadishu.

A truck packed with explosives blew up near the Ministry of Higher Education, close to the centre of Mogadishu.

The police chief in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, was killed by Islamist militias fighting against the fragile government.

At least eight people have died in renewed fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

On Wednesday, resistance fighters pulled bodies of two pro-government soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu and burned them.

European tourists used to swim in the pool behind the al Uruba, formerly one of Mogadishu's best hotels.

The article also stated that there was "street after ruined street of bombed-out buildings in the center of Mogadishu. "

Villa Somalia may be safe, but the rest of Mogadishu, the capital, is a death trap of assassinations, land mines and senseless violence.

The hope is for roads and railways to Mogadishu, Addis Ababa and Kigali and a pipeline bringing in Ugandan and south Sudanese oil.

On Sunday an Italian nun in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, was shot dead at the entrance to a hospital; many feared a link to the papal row.

Yet they managed to take control of south Somalia and large parts of the capital, Mogadishu.

We were on our front yard of white sand. It was a hot day, like almost all days in Mogadishu.

After al-Shabab was driven out of Mogadishu this month, the flood of hungry families from the countryside intensified.

Men, women and children rioted in the streets of Mogadishu because there was food in the shops but they were forced to starve.

In the battered capital, Mogadishu, it is seeking to drive Somalia's internationally recognised transitional government into the sea.

Various armed groups would then fight for control of Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, and of central Somalia.

African hopes that the AU mandate in Mogadishu be turned over to the UN look forlorn; no Western or Arab country wants to send troops.

The countries unguarded waters, especially off the coast of Mogadishu, have become extremely unsafe.

They were handed over to local officials in the Somali town of Adado, before being flown to the capital Mogadishu and on to Nairobi.

The last nuns in the smashed capital, Mogadishu, were chased out in 2007.

Al-Shabaab has taken over much of Mogadishu and southern Somalia, and is on a U. S. government list of international terrorist groups.

And the year after that, Bergen reports, Al Qaeda may have been involved in the "Black Hawk Down" battles in Mogadishu, Somalia.

The six are from Britain, the United States and Kenya, and were arrested last month shortly after landing in Mogadishu.

A solution to Somalia's problems will not be found on the high seas or on the country's barren farmland, but only in the capital, Mogadishu.

She says hundreds of thousands of children already have been immunized in IDP areas of Mogadishu and in Gedo.

Last week the regime gathered in Mogadishu for the proud opening of a Supreme Islamic Court.

A guard with an automatic weapon waits in the car with photographer Pascal Maitre during a currency exchange in downtown Mogadishu.

Parliamentarians and others have been drifting from Baidoa to Mogadishu, the capital, where they are welcomed by the Islamists.

It claims that most of those wounded in recent fighting in the capital city of Mogadishu have been civilians.

Somalia's transitional government said DNA tests confirmed his death in a shootout in the capital Mogadishu earlier this week.

Mr Erdogan also announced that Turkey would rebuild the road to Mogadishu airport, restore a hospital, build schools and drill water wells.

Although the Government has, but the Government are in transition, it can only control the capital, Mogadishu, near the place a little bit.

The government has said the group also posed a threat to internally displaced people who had fled to Mogadishu.

Many separate battles have been waged in the last couple years, most recently the Battle of Mogadishu (2010).

Tony Lake had also brought in Robert Oakley, who had been Americas top civilian in Mogadishu from December through March.

Heavy mortar exchanges have since erupted in the Bakara market areas Mogadishu, killing a number of civilians and wounding many more.

Some of the heaviest fighting was in the main Bakara market in south Mogadishu.

Now, with confirmation of polio in Mogadishu, rapid implementation of the emergency measures are essential.

The Shabab now control only 40% of Mogadishu proper (excluding sparsely populated outlying districts), down from about 60% a few months ago.

They left Mogadishu at night by the lorry load, but the fighters from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab may be back.

As conditions at the camp continue to worsen, the displaced people of Mogadishu can only pray that help is on the way.

An offensive led by the AU and transitional government troops this week hammered Shabab positions on the edge of Mogadishu.

In 1971 I began my practice in Mogadishu's biggest hospital, as one of Somalia's first female gynecologists.

A police officer told the BBC that the foreigners arrived at an airport in the capital Mogadishu on board two private planes from Kenya.

Meanwhile Somalia's interim President has appointed a mayor and several other administrative officials in Mogadishu.

Efforts to move the UN's Somalia office to Mogadishu from Nairobi have come to nothing.

Mire spent her early years in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, along with her identical twin sister Sohur.

Islamist militiamen have clashed with their secular rivals in a bloody battle for territorial control in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

The mild stimulant makes the hardships of life in Mogadishu feel more bearable.

Suicide bombers have attacked Somalia's main airport in Mogadishu, killing soldiers and civilians, officials say.

Q: The handover ceremony of Chinese food aid to Somalia was held yesterday in its capital city of Mogadishu.

As evidenced by the fighting in Mogadishu's streets, AMISOM soldiers have the will to challenge Shabab forces.

The fighting in Mogadishu comes in spasms, but appears to be getting worse.

The Ethiopians soon withdrew, perhaps to positions in the desert. But the reaction from the Islamists in Mogadishu was immediate and fierce.

The sportsman of African union peace keeping force says the violence in Mogadishu is becoming more deadly and better organized.

Mogadishu may be getting safer for Somalis, but it remains a death trap for foreigners.

Fighting in Mogadishu has again emptied the coastal city of many of its poorer inhabitants.

He was hoping to get help in Mogadishu, but so far, he says, he has received very little.

Instead, they seem keener to divide and rule, especially the powerful Hawiye clan which predominates in Mogadishu.

Hawa Abdi is an obstetrician and gynecologist who in 1983 established a one-room clinic near Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

But the AU force cannot patrol freely beyond a few streets in one section of Mogadishu.

WFP spokesperson in Mogadishu Susannah Nicoll says rebuilding the aid infrastructure is excruciatingly time consuming.

The deputy commander of the African Union peacekeeping forces in Somalia, Major General Juvenal Niyonguruza, has been killed in Mogadishu.

Hungry and weak, refugees from the drought-stricken areas of south-central Somalia arrive in the capital, Mogadishu.

Three government ministers and several newly graduated doctors were among 24 people killed in an attack in Mogadishu in December, 2009.

Earlier, the United Nations said its first airlift for five years had landed in Mogadishu.

A woman carries a child at a makeshift shelter in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, July 27, 2011.

Kurt Tjossem says the International Rescue Committee has opened health care centers in Mogadishu.

The bombing occurred during a graduation ceremony at a medical school in Mogadishu.

AMISOM forces protect key sites in Mogadishu including the airport, the presidential palace, and the seaport.

Some stocks of emergency food have arrived at a U. N. World Food Program warehouse in Mogadishu.

Yet corpses from Srebrenica to Baghdad and Mogadishu support her view that it is the weak and defenceless who are being annihilated.

Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance service, says 40 people were killed in the previous two days of intense fighting.

Brimming with charcoal from southern Somalia's dwindling forests, a truck rolls toward a port in Mogadishu.

A rusty and bullet-ridden Coca Cola sign gives a telling welcome for visitors to the volatile city of Mogadishu.

Instead, he called for more support for African Union peacekeepers who're already in the capital Mogadishu. Mr.

Stunning Indian Ocean beaches front Mogadishu's old city, though frequent shark attacks make the waters too dangerous for swimming.

What is confusing about the current operation, however, are the mixed signals coming from both Nairobi and Mogadishu.

In June Somalia's Islamic militants ordered men in Mogadishu to grow their beards and trim their moustaches.

The US is to officially recognise Somalia's government in Mogadishu after more than 20 years, says a US official.

Hundreds of Al-Shabaab fighters paraded through the streets of Mogadishu.

It was a hot day, like almost all days in Mogadishu.

Above, a young boy lies beneath mosquito netting at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu.

They also effectively closed the Mogadishu airport by threatening to attack any plane using it.

The few glimpses he gets of Mogadishu's deserted streets are through two-inch-thick bulletproof glass.

And Somali officials say the C. I. A. will open a base in the old officer quarters near Mogadishu's airport.

This year the capital, Mogadishu, has seen its worst violence in 16 years as insurgents seek to topple a fragile interim government.

Born Keynaan Warsame in Somalia's seaside capital, Mogadishu, he is now a citizen of Canada.

Gunmen from the Shabab Islamist militia stormed a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, killing 32 people, including six MPs.

I've spent the past weeks working on the famine response with Mercy Corps, an international aid organization, in Mogadishu.

Mogadishu's marketplaces, Bakara and Hamarweyne, bustle with enterprise.

We calculated something like 850, 000 people have been forced to leave Mogadishu over the last year because of the fighting there.

But one night in Mogadishu, amid the gunfire, her satellite telephone rang.

Written by Mogadishu eat more papaya milk, Kudzu is the best.

An unusual scene of public life in Mogadishu.

They flew into Mogadishu in Black Hawk helicopters in broad daylight.

On Thursday, Islamist insurgents entered Elasha, a settlement of displaced people fewer than 20 kilometers from Mogadishu.

It is not known if the ICU militia in Mogadishu includes members of al-Shabab.

Mercado says UNICEF has dispatched 700, 000 doses of measles vaccines to Mogadishu, for the campaign starting Friday.

He visited two refugee camps, near Bald Hawa and Dolo, and the capital, Mogadishu.

It's not yet clear whether al-Shabab's withdrawal from Mogadishu will make it any easier for aid agencies to reach victims of the drought.

SEVEN dhows and three freighters float in the sunlit port of Mogadishu.

Some 200, 000 civilians have fled Mogadishu this year; several thousand have been injured or killed.

The insurgents are also calling for the departure of roughly 4, 300 African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu.

Mr Robow celebrated the recent festival of Eid al-Adha by hosting prayers in Mogadishu's cattle market.

The government is battling for its survival as Islamist insurgents close in on the capital Mogadishu and the seat of parliament in Baidoa.

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said an initial force of 300 men would also protect camps for the displaced in the capital Mogadishu.

Men belonging to a militia-for-hire sit with their guns in Mogadishu.

Last month alone, she says 27, 000 people fled into Mogadishu from the heavily drought-affected areas of Bay, Bakool and Lower Shabelle.

There are currently about 3, 000 AU troops from Uganda and Burundi in Somalia, who patrol only a small area of Mogadishu.

One case of poliomyelitis has been reported in Mogadishu, Somalia where a 15-month old girl had onset of paralysis on 12 July 2005.

AMISOM maintains a force of about 8, 000 Ugandan and Burundian troops that are based primarily in Mogadishu.

Mogadishu is the largest city in Somalia and the nation's capital.

Above, children play on the coast of Mogadishu.

19: Bales of qat newly arrived from Kenya will be delivered by truck to dealers near Mogadishu.

Mogadishu tosses lamb meat to the sharks.

Ms di Giovanni went to Africa to forget him. But one night in Mogadishu, amid the gunfire, her satellite telephone rang.

Perhaps this is not true, and family tensions call to mind downtown Mogadishu.

Young Somali Islamist fighters hold their guns during a training exercise in Mogadishu on Jan.

People who have fled their villages build a makeshift shelter after arriving in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, July 27, 2011.

ON JULY 27th, after days of towing and froing, the first aid flight at last landed in Mogadishu, capital of famine-hit Somalia.

The AU also has some 1, 600 Ugandan troops under its command in Somalia's blighted capital, Mogadishu.

According to statistics, the average daily 1000 Somalis have fled Mogadishu to seek relief.

Manufacturing in Mogadishu is not what it was.

That's why a lot of them come to Mogadishu for food aid and succor.

An internally displaced child walks from the Sayidka Camp in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, April 9, 2012.

A Somali government soldier demonstrates to children how to use a Kalashnikov rifle in Mogadishu, on Sept.

The AU and the government now control all of Mogadishu.

islamic militias have seized control of the capital , mogadishu , and much of southern somalia

Al-Shabab took responsibility for suicide-bombings in Mogadishu in September that killed 17 peacekeepers;

a 69-year-old man killed near a port south of Mogadishu after Shabab fighters found 25 Somali bibles in a bag he was carrying;

The number of new refugees from a month of fighting in the capital Mogadishu was nearing 100, 000

Hundreds of thousands have fled street fighting in the north of Mogadishu to camps outside the city;

fierce clashes in mogadishu , somalia

everyone in this sweatshop knows it ' s not mogadishu

the attack struck just outside his home in mogadishu