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At least 17 people were killed and 28 wounded when a car bomb was detonated on Monday outside a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a security officer and witnesses said. The explosion near a checkpoint outside the Afrik Hotel reverberated throughout the city, and sent a massive plume of black smoke into the air.
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“We too want you to interact with people,” said Abdi. “Here, it’s like a prison. We cannot travel. Our passports are not accepted. So, if we cannot see the world, we bring the world here. We want people to realise there is another way to live, a normal life.” It seemed churlish to suggest normal life was illusory for most of us. Covid was a concern but not a preoccupation in Mogadishu.
As we talked, the adhan was called out from the hotel’s mosque. A boy carried a carpet into the courtyard and unfurled it. Men of all ages jogged over, standing in rows, offering gentle, lyrical responses to the imam’s words, then prostrating themselves in prayer.