Africa - Voice of America: Somalia National Day Celebrated in a Mogadishu Free of Al-Shabab

Africa - Voice of America africa

Somalia National Day Celebrated in a Mogadishu Free of Al-Shabab Jul 1st 2012, 18:01 MOGADISHU, Somalia — For more than two decades, Mogadishu residents have marked Somalia's independence day under the threat of chaos and violence; but this year is different. Due to security gains and the return of relative stability to the Somali capital, citizens finally have something to celebrate. For twenty-one years anarchy and humanitarian disasters have over-shadowed Somalia's Independence Day. The July 1 holiday commemorates the day Somalia declared independence from Italian ... Media files: 4613BC10-A0F0-41EC-82C3-42117E017A2B_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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