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Moalin Adualle Ali, Chairman of Dharkinley District
Somalia Report presents a new series of portraits of Somali citizens. With photographer Jason Florio, Somalia Report spent time with the people of Mogadishu to learn more about their daily lives.
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Moalin Adualle Ali, Chairman of Dharkinley District
"I've been the Chairman of Dharkinley District since 1991. I believe about ninety percent of Mogadishu is safe now from al-Shabaab. The biggest security problem today is banditry by rogue elements in the local militias. I don't want to talk about myself. I want to talk about the good work we are doing here to save lives. The government asked us to set up this camp, KD7, for internally displaced people since we had a big clean area in our district to house tens of thousands of people. My main responsibility is to oversee this camp where we have about 30,000 people who have now come from areas many hundreds of kilometers away to escape famine and fighting." Moalin Adualle Ali, 66.