The Mayor of Mogadishu

By BY MOHAMED MUBARAK - Mohamoud Ahmed Nur, better known to his constituents as "Tarzan," is on a mission to change the capital of Somalia.

Article Keydmedia Online
8 October 2012

Since returning to Mogadishu in 2010, after living for nearly 20 years in London, where he ran an Internet cafe, the 57-year-old mayor has shepherded dramatic changes in the famously lawless city, no easy feat in a place where government control in recent years has at times shrunk to just a few city blocks.

"The security situation in Mogadishu is improving," he said cheerfully when Foreign Policy caught up with him at his home in the capital. His confidence doesn