They seem like ghosts in a city left for dead. But the lighthouse is quiet and it is safe—if anyplace in Mogadishu can be considered safe. Mohammed, 18, comes for the view. From the top floor he ...

Famine, civil war, Kalashnikovs, despots… We hear the word Mogadishu and immediately images from Black Hawk Down start playing in our minds. That hasn’t been good for the country, and it hasn ...

Since January 2007, residents of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, have been gripped by a terrifying campaign of violence that has killed and injured hundreds of civilians, provoked the largest and ...

If Mogadishu falls, this will not just be a Somali crisis--it will shake the entire Horn of Africa. The warning signs are flashing, yet those in power seem oblivious to the storm that is coming.