The Catholic cathedral, in the Shangaani neighborhood in the old city of Mogadishu. We were happy to see so much stellar work submitted and one photographer had numerous images that rose to the top. Koranic Tablets. His recent works include reportage on microfinance in India, on the freedom of expression in Myanmar, on the discrimination of Christians in Pakistan.
For the last few years he has been covering Africa extensively. Abdelaziz Ahmed Abbas, 49 years old, from Aden, Yemen, lost his wife and 5 of his 6 children.
Only a son survived the war. He fled to Bosaso with other Somali returnees and Refugees from Yemen. He got hospitality at the Reception Centre A: one of the two centres in Bosaso that hosts Yemenite refugees and Somali returnees Somali people who fled to Yemen from the war in Somalia arriving in Somalia to escape the war that broke out in Yemen in April.
The girls of Mogadishu are heading back to the beach. There are over a million internally displaced people in Somalia. A further million have found refuge in the bordering countries or in Europe. Over 30, Yemenites have already arrived on the coasts of Somalia, in flight from the Arabian Peninsula where a fierce war is raging, and found a welcome in a country that for 25 years has known nothing but anarchy and chaotic military rule.
The help the Somali people are offering the Yemenites is indicative of the desire for change afoot in the former Italian colony. The TFG troops, aided by AMISOM, are gaining ground, while Al-Shabaab is using a new terror technique in an attempt to destabilise the capital, which, on paper, has been definitively rid of the Islamists: from a fight for position on the ground, Shabaab has shifted towards a new Al-Qaeda-style, under-ground, asymmetric strategy that seeks to accentuate the sense of precari-ousness among a people already devastated by decades of conflict and famine.
