Meet Mogadishu’s first female rickshaw taxi driver
Saynab Abdikarin turns heads everywhere she goes in Mogadishu. The 28-year-old is the first woman to drive a rickshaw taxi in the streets of Somalia’s conservative capital, where the tricycles commonly known as “bajaaj” have long been operated just by men. “I believe that whatever job men can do, women can do, too,” says Saynab. A mother of five, Saynab took on the job out of necessity 10 months ago after her husband left her and their children.