Dusted in flour, laborers in bBerbera/b count their wages. For unloading sacks from a truck and stacking them in a warehouse in Somaliland's main port, they were paid the equivalent of about three U.S. dollars each. ... European tourists used to swim in the pool behind the al Uruba, formerly one of Mogadishu's best bhotels/b. But visitors stopped coming in the late 1980s, after civil war broke out in the north of Somalia. Then the al Uruba, like much of Mogadishu, ...
