Somalia: Rebuilding Among the Rubble

30 December 2011

Mogadishu — With vehicles and donkey carts packed with their belongings, Somalis are returning, four years after they fled, to their partially standing, bullet-scarred and mortar-shelled neighbourhoods in former Al-Shabaab controlled areas of Mogadishu.

With much of the Somali capital now under the control of government forces backed by African Union troops, most of the city's residents have returned to their ruined homes after the surprise withdrawal of the extremists in August. Despite security incidents in the city, a semblance of normalcy has returned here.

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