William Hague visits war-torn Somalia Security was tightened in Mogadishu, a city that has been battered by a bloody insurgency, with al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab insurgents launching waves of grenade attacks and suicide bombers to unseat the Western-backed government. Piracy and how best to tackle "the terrorist threat emanating from Somalia" will also top the agenda, as will the humanitarian crisis resulting from conflict and drought. Hague's visit follows that of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in August, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon's in December, the first by a UN secretary general in 18 years. Somalia has been without an effective central government since the 1991 ouster of President Siad Barre, and the weak government in Mogadishu is propped up by a 10,000-strong African Union force from Uganda, Burundi and Djibouti.