Abdurahman Warsame

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Abdurahman Warsame is a broadcast journalist at Al Jazeera English.

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By Abdurahman Warsame in Africa on September 5th, 2011
People traveling between Mogadishu and Elasha Biyaha

After spending a few days in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, I decided to travel to Lower Shabelle, one of the regions in which the UN has declared famine.  

Al-Shabab controls Lower Shabelle and most of southern and central Somalia. They gave us permission to travel and film in a camp the armed group created in K50 area.

To work as a journalist in the areas, you must have an al-Shabab person with you at all times. So, we agreed to meet our guide in Elasha Biya, a small town outside Mogadishu.

Elasha Biyaha - meaning the water wells - was a small village until 2007 when Ethiopia invaded Somalia. Hundreds of thousands of Mogadishu residents fled to Elashaba Biyaha because it was safe and close to the capital.

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By Abdurahman Warsame in Africa on August 27th, 2011

I returned to Mogadishu, the city I grew up in, few days ago for the first time in years.  I wanted to see the whole city so we drove around for hours: the scars of two decades of war, and counting, were too visible.

Mogadishu was once a thriving beautiful city. It's by the Indian Ocean and it's blessed with beautiful weather and white sandy beaches. A short drive out of the city and you enter the lush gardens of Afgoye. Instead it's dirty, dusty and chaotic. For twenty years, lawlessness had become the norm.

 The streets are gone, famous structures like the parliament and the national theatre are nearly or completely destroyed. 

There is hardly a building without bullet marks. The areas al Shabab withdrew from are even worse: people who fled from there haven't returned yet. 

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By Abdurahman Warsame in Africa on June 11th, 2010
Photo from Reuters

South Africans, young and old and across racial divide, turned out in numbers to greet the South African national team Bafana Bafana.

The excitement was visible everywhere, in the affluent areas and in townships like Alexandra where we spent most of the day on Thursday.

Nelson Mandela lived under tough conditions in Alexandra from 1940 until 1946. Today there are kids in the streets of the township, wearing Bafana Bafana t-shirts and hats, and sound of the Vuvuzela is everywhere.

On Thursday night the World Cup party kicked off with a concert by international and national artistes, attended by thousands of people.

Friday is the big party, the opening ceremony of World Cup, and then a month-long stable diet of football.

South Africans feel the world has come to them and they want to counter the prejudices they feel South Africa had faced in the run-up to the World Cup.

By Abdurahman Warsame in Asia on November 20th, 2009

I visited Afghanistan in September for two weeks, spending many days walking the streets of Kabul. I also visited the north and the Western city of Herat.

Only an hour after I landed in Kabul I went to the street, walking for more two hours in one of the busiest areas of Kabul. The street of Kabul are bustling with activity and life, that's until "Iftar" or sunset when Muslims break fast.

These are some of the photos I took from Kabul, Panjshir, Istalif and Herat

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I met this trader in Ka Faroshi market

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