Residents of Mogadishu, Somalia, voted in municipal elections seen as a crucial step toward the country's first direct national polls in more than half a century, following decades of civil war and indirect voting https://reut.rs/3YHfk8r | Reuters

Somalis have burned an Israeli flag in protest of Tel Aviv's recognition of Somaliland, a breakaway state form Somalia that declared unilateral independence in 1991. Israel is the only UN member state to have recognised the country since 1991. | The Sudan Times