After 16 years of chaos, the warlords have left and the capital’s streets are quiet.

Mohamed Abdullahi no longer shoves his mobile phone down his trousers when leaving the house. Abdulaziz Mohamed has dismissed the armed men that used to guard his stationery shop. Farh Dir enjoys a restaurant dinner with a childhood friend – the first time he has been out at night in years.

“What has happened in Mogadishu is a miracle,” said Abdi Haji Gobdon, the 62-year-old director of Voice of Peace radio in the Somali capital. “We are still trying to take it all in.”
guardian.co.uk

Well they should enjoy it now because it won’t be for long if the US has anything to say, which it always does.

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