Jake Paul of the U.S., center, cries after his fiancé Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands, won the gold medal in the women's 1,000 meters speedskating race at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Monday. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) |
A Somali woman bowls at the Feynuus Bowling Center in Mogadishu, Somalia, in January. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)\ |
Somalia welcomes its first bowling alley as the middle class and diaspora returnees grow |
In a city long defined by conflict, Somalia's capital of Mogadishu now echoes with the crash of pins at the country's first modern bowling alley. It's the latest sign of revival in the once-thriving Indian Ocean port shaped by 35 years of civil war and militant bombings. |
