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Mogadishu is losing ‘Most Dangerous City’ label

By Jason Straziuso
Published June 13, 2012 5:32pm ET
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Mogadishu is losing ‘Most Dangerous City’ label
In this photo taken Friday, June 8, 2012, Abdikhafar Abubakar prepares to board a plane back to Minneapolis after returning to Mogadishu to visit his mother for the first time in decades, at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. The seaside Somali capital is enjoying a peace that, except for the infrequent attack, has lasted the better part of a year and Somalis who fled decades of war are coming back, as are U.N. workers who long operated out of Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso) | Jason Straziuso

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Mogadishu is losing a label it never wanted in the first place: The World’s Most Dangerous City.

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