Somalia: War, Hunger and a Housing Boom - Welcome to Africa's Most Crowded City

Nairobi — Conflict, drought and floods have pushed a record number of Somalis into Mogadishu, making it Africa's most crowded city, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said on Tuesday.

With more than 340,000 people forced to flee their homes in the first half of 2018, the year is likely to produce Somalia's highest number of displacements in a decade, said the Geneva-based centre, part of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

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