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Perspective: Africa - September 2016
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Striving for development: Since the early 1990s, various militant groups used Mogadishu
stadium as their base of operations. Al-Shabaab banned sporting events when they laid
siege to the city in 2008, but after the Somali National Army recaptured the city in 2011
the federal government, with assistance from China, renovated the stadium.
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