page_title: Mogadishu
section_title: Diplomatic missions
hierarchical_section_title: Mogadishu / Government / Diplomatic missions
caption_attribution_description: English: The new embassy of Turkey in Mogadishu, Somalia.
context_page_description: Mogadishu, locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting with traders all round the Indian Ocean for millennia and currently has a population of 2,425,000 residents. Mogadishu is the nearest foreign mainland city to Seychelles, at a distance of 835 mi over the Indian Ocean. Mogadishu is located in the coastal Banadir region on the Indian Ocean, which unlike other Somali regions, is considered a municipality rather than a maamulgoboleed.
  Mogadishu has a long history, which ranges from the ancient period up until now, giving birth to the Mogadishu Confederacy and the Mogadishu Sultanate established by Abubakr bin Fakhr al-Din who established the Fakhr al-Din dynasty, eventually to be replaced by the Muzaffar dynasty, who became allies of the Ajuran Sultanate in the late 16th century. In the 17th century, Mogadishu and the Banadir coast came to fall under Omani-Zanzibari suzerainty up until the 19th century. During the 19th century, because of the divide in Muscat, the power came to be shared with the Geledi Sultanate over the Banadir in an equilibrium fashion.
context_section_description: A number of countries maintain foreign embassies and consulates in Mogadishu. As of January 2014, these diplomatic missions include the embassies of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Uganda, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, and Qatar. Embassies that are scheduled to reopen in the city include those of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Italy and South Korea.
  In May 2015, in recognition of the sociopolitical progress made in Somalia and its return to effective governance, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced a preliminary plan to reestablish the US embassy in Mogadishu. He indicated that although there was no set timetable for the premises' relaunch, the US government had immediately begun upgrading its diplomatic representation in the country. President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke also presented to Kerry the real estate deed for land reserved for the new US embassy compound. Mohamud concurrently signed an Establishment Agreement with the EU Head of Delegation in Somalia Michele Cervone d’Urso, which facilitates the opening of more embassies in Mogadishu by European Union member states. The EU also announced that it had opened a new EU Delegation office in the city.
  In February 2014, Somalia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdirahman Duale Beyle announced that the federal government was slated to reopen the former Institute of Diplomacy in Mogadishu. The center historically served as one of the most important national institutions for diplomacy and international relations. Beyle also pledged to reestablish the institute's diplomacy department, its information and broadcasting department, as well as its library.
caption: Turkey embassy in Mogadishu
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