SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph released by the United Nations-African Union Information Support Team, Colonel Kayanja Mahanga, a battle-group commander serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) communictaes with his field commanders 20 January following a joint advance with the Somali National Army (SNA) into insurgent Al Shabaab territory to capture Mogadishu University. SNA forces supported by AMSIOM today pushed further north from their previous forward defensive line along the industrial road to take the strategically important area of and around Mogadis
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph released by the United Nations-African Union Information Support Team, Colonel Kayanja Mahanga, a battle-group commander serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) communictaes with his field commanders 20 January following a joint advance with the Somali National Army (SNA) into insurgent Al Shabaab territory to capture Mogadishu University. SNA forces supported by AMSIOM today pushed further north from their previous forward defensive line along the industrial road to take the strategically important area of and around Mogadishu Univeristy, the very furthest northern point of the Somali capital and where the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab planned and carried out attacks against the African Union mission, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and targets within the Somali AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
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