Notes
1 BBC News, ‘Mogadishu Truck Bombing Death Toll Jumps to 358’, 20 October 2017.
2 For police-related developments in the early 1990s see, for example, Robert B Oakley, Michael J Dziedzic and Eliot M Goldberg (eds), Policing the New World Disorder: Peace Operations and Public Security (Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1998).
3 Nazanine Moshiri, ‘Mogadishu Property Boom Stirs Concern’, Al-Jazeera, 14 October 2012; Somalia Investor, ‘Real Estate Boom’, 9 April 2016; Murad Shishani, ‘Mogadishu’s First Solar-Powered Street Lamps’, BBC News, 29 October 2012; Mark Byrnes, ‘A Fascinating Glimpse of Daily Life in Mogadishu’, CityLab, 21 October 2013; Keyd Media, ‘Somalia Resumes Solar-Powered Lampposts on Mogadishu Streets’, 30 January 2015; Jason Burke, ‘Three Tales of Mogadishu: Violence, a Booming Economy … and Now Famine’, The Guardian, 15 May 2017.
4 Shabelle News, ‘Somalia: A Local Govt Official Killed in Mogadishu Car Bomb Blast’, 28 February 2017; Shamso Macalin, ‘Bomb Under Car Seat Kills Somali Intelligence Officer’, Baydhabo Online, 1 March 2017; Shabelle News, ‘Top Army Officer Escapes an “Assassination Attempt”’, 1 March 2017. Note: Shabelle News occasionally removes its online stories.
5 Sakariye Cismaan, ‘The Big Cheese: Why President Farmaajo Holds So Much Hope for Somalia’, African Arguments, 9 February 2017.
6 Ibid.