Foreign Correspondent Andrew Harding has covered 25 wars, yet his first book is an uplifting and redemptive tale set in Mogadishu, writes Sue Leonard.

Two people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside the presidential palace compound in Somalia, an official said today.

Somalia’s president came under mortar attack in his palace in Mogadishu today, hours after arriving for a rare visit to the violent capital, eyewitnesses said.