1 Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.

2 It was a visit that took him to Mogadishu and southwards to Kismayo.

3 The United Nations brokered a peace in Mogadishu at the end of March.

4 Mogadishu s transitional government has started talking of reopening the capital s airport and getting its air traffic control back.

5 Mogadishu airport had not been used for relief supplies since June 1, when food aid had been stolen at gunpoint.

6 Telephone and telex communications between Mogadishu and the outside world were severed from Nov. 16.

7 Aircraft dropped 100,000 leaflets on Mogadishu, warning that anyone pointing a weapon at members of the multinational force would be shot.

8 Abukar, for example,[] had left Mogadishu only when he failed to get into the premed program at the university.

9 It controls large parts of Mogadishu and the south.

10 The attack struck just outside his home in Mogadishu.

11 Meanwhile, Mogadishu is getting worse again.

12 AMISOM forces protect key sites in Mogadishu including the airport, the presidential palace, and the seaport.

13 Witnesses in Merka, south of Mogadishu, say a helicopter gunship fired on a building where commanders of the militant group al-Shabab may have been meeting.

14 Mogadishu may be getting safer for Somalis, but it remains a death trap for foreigners.

15 Mogadishu ground zero for the failed state of Somalia, a place where pirates and terrorists rule.

16 Last week the regime gathered in Mogadishu for the proud opening of a Supreme Islamic Court.

17 Those poor soldiers sure lucked out in Mogadishu, didn't they?

18 They flew into Mogadishu in Black Hawk helicopters in broad daylight.

19 Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi visits Mogadishu, pledging to withdraw his troops once peace takes hold.

20 They also effectively closed the Mogadishu airport by threatening to attack any plane using it.

21 On Aug. 28 two of the group were injured after an attack in Mogadishu in which three local guards were apparently killed.

22 The pair died trying to rescue a downed helicopter crew during a 16-hour firefight in Mogadishu.

23 Farah Aydid had claimed that relief aid arriving in Mogadishu was not reaching targeted populations.

24 We hope that the factions will honour their commitment to a ceasefire in Mogadishu.

25 The young gunman was on a truck fleeing the scene of a shoot-out with marines in Mogadishu.

26 The overthrow of Siyad Barre came at the end of a month of intense fighting on the streets of Mogadishu.

27 If that is starting again, it is as bad as what is going on in Mogadishu.

28 She said the fighting had halted virtually all relief work in Mogadishu.

29 Brimming with charcoal from southern Somalia's dwindling forests, a truck rolls toward a port in Mogadishu.

30 The insurgents are also calling for the departure of roughly 4,300 African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu.

1 Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.

2 It was a visit that took him to Mogadishu and southwards to Kismayo.

31 In recent months, 500 000 of these displaced have been uprooted yet again by violence around Mogadishu, heaping further humanitarian hardship onto these war-weary people.

32 Meanwhile Somalia's interim President has appointed a mayor and several other administrative officials in Mogadishu.

33 The Chinese embassy has tried to contact related authorities to help evacuate the Chinese from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, the report said.

34 The Shabab carried out several suicide attacks during Ramadan in Mogadishu.

35 The AU also has some 1,600 Ugandan troops under its command in Somalia's blighted capital, Mogadishu.

36 The announcement comes as Islamist insurgents continue an advance towards the capital, Mogadishu.

37 A Somali government soldier demonstrates to children how to use a Kalashnikov rifle in Mogadishu, on Sept. 13, 2009.

38 The Islamist group in Somalia al-Shabab has closed down BBC radio relay stations in five cities in southern Somalia[/mogadishu.html], including the capital Mogadishu.

39 AMISOM maintains a force of about 8,000 Ugandan and Burundian troops that are based primarily in Mogadishu.

40 Villa Somalia may be safe, but the rest of Mogadishu, the capital, is a death trap of assassinations, land mines and senseless violence.

41 For the past three years some 8,000 Ugandan and Burundian troops have served under the command of the African Union (AU) in Mogadishu without great effect.

42 Humanitarian agencies said that 20,000 people a month were fleeing violence in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

43 It's a 2-hour-plus gunfight at the O.K. Corral, except that the weapons are blazing on the streets of Mogadishu, where all lives are expendable.

44 MSF also has medical teams north of Mogadishu in areas controlled by al-Shabab.

45 Yare, better known as Buneyste, was in Mogadishu visiting his sick mother.

46 The deputy commander of the African Union peacekeeping forces in Somalia, Major General Juvenal Niyonguruza, has been killed in Mogadishu.

47 Last week gunmen attacked Mogadishu airport killing a police inspector.