For the first time in decades, Somalia is abandoning its clan-based political system and allowing residents of Mogadishu to choose local representatives directly under the "one-person, one-vote" principle ... .
Somalians turned out in droves on Thursday to vote in local elections in the capital Mogadishu -- the first by universal suffrage in nearly 60 years -- with the city locked down amid security concerns ... .
Mogadishu. Somalians voted on Thursday in the Mogadishu region's first direct local election in nearly 60 years, despite security concerns and a boycott by opposition leaders ... Mogadishu is located.
The voting for local council members, to be conducted across Mogadishu’s 16 districts Thursday, has been organized by the country’s federal government ... ....
Mogadishu -- Somalia's civil aviation authority announced on Tuesday that Mogadishu's main international airport will be closed for one day next week due to local elections, suspending all flights in and out of the capital ....
America stands at war with its own ideals ... The hypocrisy is staggering ... Silence in the face of the degradation is complicity ... To call Mogadishu “garbage” while extolling Botswana’s diamonds in the same sentence is not diplomacy; it is duplicity ... ....