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Somali capital is losing 'World's Most Dangerous City' designation after mostly peaceful year
• MOGADISU, Somalia (AP) -- Mogadishu is losing a label it never wanted in the first place: The World's Most Dangerous City. • The seaside Somali capital is enjoying a peace that, except for the infrequent attack, has lasted the better part of a year. Somalis who fled decades of war are coming back, as are U.N. workers who long operated out of Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya. • Embassies are reopening and a U.S. assistant secretary of state visited here on Sunday, the highest-ranking U.S. official to set foot in Mogadishu since the infamous Black Hawk Down battle of 1993. • Minnesota resident Abdikhafar Abubakar fled Somalia in 1992, leaving behind (Continued on page 22)
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