Xamar-weyne market in Mogadishu flourishes (Pics)!

[Avicenna]

http://jowhar.com/news.php?readmore=2516

[OliveOil]

Wee duushay MashAllah

[mudugawi]

Nice. The Xalwa must taste very sweet and even sweeter now there is Peace in Xamar cadeey. Somalia Ha noolato

[SahanGalbeed]

Was this place deserted when al shabaab was still there ?

[mudugawi]

Was this place deserted when al shabaab was still there ?

It was for a long time a TFG controlled area.Even at the time when shabaab controlled large parts of Xamar. Many people who fled Al Shabaab areas moved to Xamarweyne and surrounding areas. When that happened, Xamarweyne experienced a population boom and an economic boom.

[Avicenna]

Was this place deserted when al shabaab was still there ?

You should read this article:

Bruised by war, Mogadishu slowly reawakens

After four years of war, Mogadishu bears the signs of a city slowly rising from the ruins of war. Gunfire, bombs and mortars had punctured the coastal city almost everyday as Western-backed government forces and African Union troops fought an insurgency by the Islamist al Shabaab rebel group. A local rights group said up to half a million people had returned to their dwellings in the last three weeks, in a city that numbered two million people before the insurgency. Those with no homes to return to in Mogadishu, fill squalid, makeshift refugee camps where an influx of Somalis fleeing famine in the country's south have further swelled numbers. AU tanks and Somali forces on pick-ups mounted with anti-aircraft guns patrol Mogadishu's streets, trying to maintain the lull in fighting, which over four years has killed more than 20,000 people according to U.N. estimates. But earlier this month, the al Qaeda-inspired militants -- outgunned and divided -- withdrew nearly all their combatants from their bases in the capital and Somalis woke to what they say they hope will be an extended period of calm.

http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2011/Aug/b ... akens.aspx

[Knight of Wisdom]

After 21 years of NON-STOP war in Mogadishu, it still looks better than Hergeisa.

[Alchemist]

Nice

[tightrope]

Nice

[SahanGalbeed]

Okay thank you people , avicenna and mudugawi I mean .

[grandpakhalif]

Mashallah. The impact Muqdisho will have on the south will be amazing, many investors can now use the mog port, and no longer have to use the one tribe, pirate enclave's makeshift port alhamdullilah

[mudugawi]

Okay thank you people , avicenna and mudugawi I mean .

Adiga mudan walaal

[TheblueNwhite]

Great pictures.

[XimanJaale]

TFG

[ciyaal_warta]

my xamarweyn pple are back in business