AFP, Mogadishu :
UN chief Ban Ki-moon met with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud under heavy security Wednesday in Mogadishu, his first visit to the dangerous capital of the war-torn nation in almost three years.
Ban, along with World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim, met with Mohamud inside the fortified airport zone, guarded by troops from the 22,000-strong UN-backed African Union force, Somalia’s presidency said in a statement.
They were not expected to travel outside the airport’s concrete blast walls, manned by AU machine gunners, into the city itself.
