While many people in Somalia squeezed into cafes and homes on Sunday night to watch the Euro football final, hundreds of Mogadishu's most stylish residents gathered in the beachside Elite Hotel for another competition: Miss Somalia. The fact that about a kilometre away a car bomb exploded outside the Top Coffee restaurant which was packed with football fans highlights the dramatic contrasts of life in Somalia. While the beauty show contestants were parading in the hotel, at least five people were killed and about 20 injured in the nearby.

.. Kiin Hassan Fakat & Mary Harper.