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A poorly executed attempt to keep track of names of portrait subjects during a shoot on #Lido beach in #Mogadishu. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni

A rare quiet moment at #Mogadishu international airport. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni

A UN staff member goes spearfishing just a few kilometers down from Lido beach in #Mogadishu #Somalia. The shore is rockier here. The airport base, secured by African Union troops, stands apart from the rest of the city. Movement in and out is restricted. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni

Early morning lady in red on #Lido Beach, Somalia’s South Beach. Crowds get so thick on Thursdays and Fridays it’s difficult to walk. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni

A patient waits for a cesarean section. #Somalia suffers some of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. Most women give birth at home and receive no prenatal care. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni

A nurse scrubs in at Medina hospital in #Mogadishu. Throughout the war in #Somalia the city’s trauma hospital maintained neutrality, treating members of al Shabaab in the same ward as victims of their car bombs and IEDs. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni

Abdiqani, a young Somali poet records an ode to #Mogadishu at a local radio station. “I will never stop making poems for Mogadishu, I love it as a mother loves her only son.” The Somali language was unwritten until 1973, #poetry and the #radio are two bedrocks of life here. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni

Upon #Mogadishu, pearl of the Indian Ocean. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni

Hello! I’m Roopa Gogineni, a photojournalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Thrilled to instagram this week for@burndiary, on assignment in Mogadishu making a photo and video portrait of the city and the people who call it home. I’ve been working in Somalia since 2011 when al Shabaab still controlled parts of the capital city. Nearly two …

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