The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. December 5, 2018 Somalia: U.S. Reopens Permanent Diplomatic Presence --------------------------------------------------- The United States is re-establishing a permanent diplomatic presence in Somalia nearly 30 years after it shut its embassy in Mogadishu in 1991 as the central government collapsed amid a bloody civil war. .