Amid Scars of Conflict, Mogadishu Experiences a Rare Building Boom

Amid scars of conflict, Mogadishu experiences a rare building boom

MOGADISHU, Nov 25 — Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city’s cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction.The east African nation saw civil war in the 1990s mutate in the 2000s into an Islamist insurgency that still threatens much of the country.Almost 70 percent of Somalia’s population is defined as “multidimen…

Rising from the ashes: Mogadishu's building boom

Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city's cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction.

Amid scars of conflict, Mogadishu experiences a rare building boom

MOGADISHU, Nov 25 — Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by......