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A.U. and Government Forces Capture Kismayo from Shabaab
A Kenyan soldier with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) stands in front of vehicles that were destroyed a week earlier by Kenyan Air Force missile strikes inside a warehouse at Kismayo Airport, once firmly under the control of the Al Shabaab militant group.
The port city of Kismayo was captured from Al Shabaab yesterday in a joint advance by AMISOM and Somali National Army (SNA) forces. A once feared and brutal extremist group, Shabaab has lost a succession of strategic towns and villages across Somalia to the SNA and AMISOM since the group withdrew from fixed positions in the capital, Mogadishu, in August of 2011.
The port city of Kismayo was captured from Al Shabaab yesterday in a joint advance by AMISOM and Somali National Army (SNA) forces. A once feared and brutal extremist group, Shabaab has lost a succession of strategic towns and villages across Somalia to the SNA and AMISOM since the group withdrew from fixed positions in the capital, Mogadishu, in August of 2011.
02 October 2012
Kismayo, Somalia
Photo # 530886
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