Yahye Moallim Isse (L), mentor and trainer of Shukri Osman Muse (C), Mogadishu's first female equestrian, feeds her horse as she observes at her home in Mogadishu on January 17, 2025. A strange sight appears on the streets of Mogadishu: a figure dressed all in black, including a cowboy hat, riding a horse through the beeping traffic of tuk-tuks and motorbikes. Stranger still in conservative Somalia, the rider is a woman.
Shukri Osman Muse, 25, said she is "delighted to be the first female equestrian in the country -- it was a dream of mine for many years". (Photo by Hassan Ali Elmi / AFP)