Tag: Mogadishu

Three Weeks, Three Countries and Two Questions

The other day, on my way back from Mogadishu, when the Immigration Officer at KIA’s Terminal 2 looked at …

‘If there’s an emergency at night,’ Casper said, ‘don’t go looking for a bunker – your room is a …

‘You will see some changes,’ Bashir said. Bashir owns the Peace Hotel in Mogadishu. He was welcoming me there …

At the hot drinks counter a blonde woman was sniffing cups, one after another. She must have sniffed at …

Bashir calls his hotel in Mogadishu ‘Peace’. He might as well have called it ‘War’. Almost everything about it …

I’ve been contained again. But, no, this photograph isn’t of a prison. Far from it. Secure it is, yes …

I woke to gunfire. Well, I thought it was gunfire – the staccato sound of AK47s. Maybe it was …

‘Don’t worry, we’re not under attack, it’s just an assassination’. As a senior government official’s car exploded a few …