Mogadishu UK /ˌmɒ.ɡəˈdiː.ʃuː/US /ˌmoʊ.ɡəˈdi.ʃu/ noun1 •The capital city of Somalia.Rotting corpses lay in the open and explosions shook Mogadishu on Sunday for a fifth day of fighting between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops that have killed at least 230 people. — 2007