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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Ban Ki-Moon became the first U.N. secretary-general to set foot in this war-ravaged country in almost 20 years Friday, and he promised to relocate the United Nations’ political office for Somalia to Mogadishu next year, though other U.N. officials were skeptical.

Ban met with leaders from Somalia’s Transitional federal government, a weak, divided and thoroughly unpopular entity that the United Nations has been trying to prop up. Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, remains one of the most dangerous cities on earth.

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