This is for every Somali who wants to make movies,” Jama said, wearing a traditional Somali dress striped silver, yellow and green. She left Somalia when she was six and moved between Kenya and Uganda before settling in Cairo aged 19. African Union peacekeeping troops clawed back control of the capital in 2011 and the new Western-backed Somali government reopened the venue the following year. The building reopened again in 2020. Mogadishu resident Hassan Abdulahi Mohamed remembered spending half a Somali shilling on a movie ticket and one shilling on snacks at the theatre in the 1960s.

Source: MetroXpress September 23, 2021 15:00 UTC