Why are young people moving back to Mogadishu?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, has been described as the most dangerous city in the world. Many young people from the Somali diaspora who have grown up in countries such as the UK and Canada are now returning to their ancestral home in hopes of bringing positive change, even though there is the threat of violence and terrorism. In this episode we speak to Yasmin about why she decided to relocate to Mogadishu from London, and the BBC’s Africa editor, Mary Harper. Presenter: Tina Daheley Producers: Wahiba Ahmed and Lucy Hancock Mixed by Nico Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Tina Dehealy.
0:08.9	Welcome to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:12.1	where we ask one big question about one big story.
0:21.1	Today why are young people moving back to Mogadishu?
0:27.0	Mogadishu is often called one of the world's most dangerous cities, but over the past few
0:37.0	years, millennial Somalis, who grew up relatively well off in places like the UK, the US and Canada have been resettling in their
0:46.1	ancestral home. Recent brutal killings of Somalies who've relocated to the city from the west make you wonder why someone
0:54.6	would trade in a comfortable safe home life to be a walking target in a city plagued
1:01.1	by suicide attacks.
1:03.0	Waheba who's producing today's episode has been thinking about this.
1:06.8	Hi Waheba.
1:07.8	Hi, Tina.
1:08.8	Now, Waheba, you introduced me to a friend of yours, Yasmin.
1:11.8	When was the last time you saw her? The last time I saw Yasmin we were
1:15.3	drinking chai lattes in Nero down the road from here on Regent Street. She had already
1:21.2	decided that she'd be moving to Mogadishu to work in public policy.
1:25.0	When I saw her, she'd come back from giving handwriting samples for her employer
1:30.0	and casually mentioned that she had to do them as part of forensic identification in case she was killed.
1:37.0	So the idea being that they would try to match that handwriting sample with anything they found with her or around her.
1:45.2	Yes.
1:46.2	But she decided to go anyway and she's been there since August.
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