SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph taken and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 25 April 2013, British Foreign Secretary William Hague (right) looks on as the British flag is raised during the opening of the newly built British Embassy in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Hague was in Mogadishu today to open the new British diplomatic mission over 20 years after it's predecessor was closed down and evacuated in 1991 as Somalia descended into over two decades of civil war and conflict, but with an improving security situation in the Horn of Africa country
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph taken and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 25 April 2013, British Foreign Secretary William Hague (right) looks on as the British flag is raised during the opening of the newly built British Embassy in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Hague was in Mogadishu today to open the new British diplomatic mission over 20 years after it's predecessor was closed down and evacuated in 1991 as Somalia descended into over two decades of civil war and conflict, but with an improving security situation in the Horn of Africa country, the United Kingdom has become the first Western country to re-establish a permanent diplomatic presence in Somalia. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
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