Somalis escape to the beach and a new floating restaurant
Passenger sit on the upper deck onboard the luxury La Lanterna Bar restaurant, sailing in the Indian Ocean near Lido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia on May 1, 2019. PHOTO | REUTERS
Few restaurateurs consider the threat of piracy in their plans but Abdulkadir Mohamed did so for his La Lanterna floating restaurant now moored off Mogadishu’s popular Lido beach.
“We considered that pirates could hijack it, and use it to attack cargo ships,” he said on the top of the double-deck boat as it bounced on the warm waters of the Indian Ocean a short distance from the Somali capital’s coastline.
