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WATCH | Somalia's first cinema screening in three decades

Somali moviegoers flocked to the National Theater in Mogadishu as cinema returned to Somalia after three decades of shutdowns and strife.

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A man walks inside a dilapidated Banadir cinema, where he used to watch movies in the early 1966 to1990 in the Hamar Weyne district, in the southeastern Banaadir region of Somalia, September 22, 2021. Picture taken September 22, 2021. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
SOMALIA-FILMS A man walks inside a dilapidated Banadir cinema, where he used to watch movies in the early 1966 to1990 in the Hamar Weyne district, in the southeastern Banaadir region of Somalia, September 22, 2021. Picture taken September 22, 2021. REUTERS/Feisal Omar Picture: FEISAL OMAR

Somali moviegoers flocked to the National Theater in Mogadishu as cinema returned to Somalia after three decades of shutdowns and strife.