The street cleaners of Mogadishu: Doing Somalia’s riskiest job
Al JazeeraDozens of female street cleaners have been killed in the Somali capital by Improvised Explosive Devices since 2008. There are many dangers when you do our job.” Maryan and the others are street cleaners working for the city’s local authority – one of the most dangerous jobs in the Somali capital. In August 2008, at least 21 female street cleaners were killed on the same stretch of the street following an explosion that also left 46 others, mostly women street cleaners, wounded. In August 2014, an explosion left four female street cleaners dead and seven others injured in that same district of Mogadishu. “Mogadishu’s street cleaners are killed by the same troops who frequently target the Tuk-tuk drivers of Mogadishu, and everyone knows who those are.
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