Welcome to Mogadishu: Africa's most crowded city

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Conflict, drought and floods have pushed a record number of Somalis into Mogadishu, making it Africa’s most crowded city, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said on Tuesday.

With more than 340,000 people forced to flee their homes in the first half of 2018, the year is likely to produce Somalia’s highest number of displacements in a decade, said the Geneva-based center, part of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

“Somali families are fleeing to Mogadishu seeking shelter, protection and aid,” Evelyn Aero, the NRC aid agency’s regional adviser, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“With nowhere else to go, crowding into these camps means that they will be living in unhealthy environment that is unsafe.”

Somalia has been trying to recover from conflict that engulfed the country in 1991, when clan warlords overthrew a dictator and then turned on each other. Over the past decade it has faced an insurgency waged by al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab.

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Crowded buildings next to Sahafi hotel in Mogadishu
While parts of Somalia are plagued by militant violence, a degree of stability in the capital, Mogadishu, and the prospect of humanitarian assistance, attract the rural poor.

Some 2.6 million people live in Mogadishu, with more than 28,000 people per square kilometer, making the Indian Ocean city the second most densely populated in the world after Dhaka in Bangladesh, NRC said, citing the website Demographia.

Erratic rainfall, prolonged drought, floods and difficulties accessing markets continue to drive rural Somalis into urban areas, following a 2011 famine which killed 260,000 people.

“We are continuing to observe new internally displaced families arriving in Mogadishu,” said Melaki Yirga, deputy regional director for the charity Mercy Corps.

“These women, men and children have very little access to humanitarian support such as basic food.”

About 600,000 displaced people live across Mogadishu, with many families evicted multiple times as developers, buoyed by a construction boom, seek to build on land where informal settlements have sprung up, NRC said.

About a third of new displacements recorded in the Horn of Africa country from 2017 to mid-2018 were to, or within, the war-scarred city, NRC said.

Some 4.2 million Somalis – a third of the population – will need humanitarian aid and protection in 2019, one-third less than in 2018, largely due to good rainfall this year, the United Nations says.

More than 60 percent of these people – 2.6 million – are internally displaced, with female-headed households, children and the elderly particularly at risk, it says.

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This upcoming 30 story opposite Afrika Hotel K 4 symbolifies the construction boom in Mogadishu
Reporting by Kevin Mwanza; editing by Katy Migiro. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit news.trust.org/
 

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Mogadishu must be very small if it is more densely populated than bantu cities like Lagos.
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DR OSMAN

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The IDP are in shocking conditions in Hamar, the NGO pay the 'xafad' commissioner funds and he just gives them 70-100 dollars a month, while pocketing the rest. No real infrastructure provided like schools, lights, toilets, homes, etc. It's just to costly and won't allow for their commissioner to 'steal away a few pennies'. They go around hamar saying magan alle and begging at restaurants, social areas, mosques, etc or perfect begging grounds but the people know they got 'money' from NGO. I haven't heard puntland has beggers even the IDPS. Puntland I think has a far higher living standard that is why. Mogadishu is soweto trust me, I have my abtis in high levels in the govt there and I know the reality. The politicians don't even get rich at all and we exagerrate the corruption 90% don't get much beyond 'party money'.

The IDPS are very aggressive in mogadishu, you know in their homes 8 people eat 250 grams of meat. That's like a damn serving niyahow for one kid in the west. They also turn up for SAAB events knowing meat is pricey and therefore scoring extra meat to store away will bring costs down.

The funny thing even the pennies they steal, maba ka muqato weli waa iska faqrigasi most of the politicians besides the TOP ones at high levels in the government.
 
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