Next story today, Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, on Tuesday. He's the first U.S. secretary of state ever to go there. He was scheduled to meet with a number of Somali leaders.
Mogadishu (/ˌmɔːɡəˈdiːʃuː/; Somali:Muqdisho; Arabic:مقديشوMaqadīshū), known locally as Hamar, is the largest and capital city of Somalia. Located in the coastal Banaadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for millennia. As of 2015, it had a population of 2,120,000 residents.