Peace Hotel – Going Places Africa

The Peace Hotel and the Changing Face of Mogadishu

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

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

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 …