Somalia and Somaliland Spring 2015

Let me share with you a few pictures from Somalia and Somaliland showing Mogadishu, Galkayo, Garowe and Hargeisa. You can access the photos by clicking on the following link https://plus.google.com/photos/103945442053805877863/albums/6129535901283342561 or scroll over below pictures.

The pictures show

  1. The old city center of Mogadishu (once called the most beautiful city of East Africa) in former years and now

  2. Travelling with an armed escort through Mogadishu

  3. Suicide attack on an UNDP convoy in December 2014 (pictures taken by my colleagues)

  4. Working meetings with the Prime minister, the Speaker of the Parliament, the Minister of Constitutional Affairs, as well as donors and stakeholders

  5. Mogadishu International Airport / International Camp

  6. Construction work in the UNSOM camp

  7. Galkayo airport

  8. Garowe, capital of Puntland

  9. Hargeisa (Somaliland), where the security situation is better than in the rest of the country.